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Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?
2014-10-10 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The United Nations Climate Summit at the end of September saw a host of governments, agencies and organizations rally around an international agreement aimed at stopping deforestation called the New York Declaration on Forests. In it, three African nations were recognized for their commitments to restore collectively more than 25 million hectares of forest an area larger than the West African country of Guinea part of a plan to restore 350 million hectares of forest by 2030. But several organizations...
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DiCaprio: solving climate change is not about politics, its about survival
2014-09-24 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change is not about politics but about survival, said Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio in a speech to world and business leaders at the UN climate summit in New York on Tuesday. DiCaprio was confirmed as a UN climate representative earlier this month and has long been an active supporter of projects battling climate change and protecting the environment. He also took part in the Peoples Climate March in New York on Sunday, which saw over 300,000 people take to the streets of the city...
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Australia: Politics trumps physics in climate change frenzy
2014-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Given the relentless long-term trend towards global warming, it should be a case of all hands on deck. But the world of politics appears to have trumped the laws of physics, writes Mike Steketee. "THE laws of physics are non-negotiable," observed Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organisation, this week. You wouldn't think so listening to the often frenzied debate about global warming or, according to Tony Abbott's senior business adviser Maurice Newman, what is really...
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Green party to position itself as the real left of UK politics
2014-09-04 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Green party is positioning itself as the real opposition to the coalition, opening up a bitter fight with Labour on the left wing of UK politics, as the partys key figures prepare to contest general election seats in parliament. Caroline Lucas, the partys only MP, will tell the Green party conference in Birmingham on Saturday that Labour has failed to oppose the Tories and Liberal Democrats on a wide variety of issues, from the creeping privatisation of the National Health Service to free...
Can Scientific Advice on Coastal Risk Reduction Compete with We Will Not Retreat Politics?
2014-07-23 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The National Research Council, the nations top independent science advisory body, has issued Reducing Coastal Risks on the East and Gulf Coasts a smart report that should be read by anyone particularly elected officials in a coastal community. Below you can read an excerpt from the news release with a link to the full document. Ive written repeatedly on the great opportunities for limiting losses in coastal communities from storm surges and other threats exacerbated by rising seas. Of...
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