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India Drought 2015: Climate Change Biggest Threat India Economy, Modi Finance Aide Says

2015-11-02 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Business Times: Climate change is threatening to derail Indias fast-growing economy, a top aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week. Erratic monsoon rain patterns have left crops parched, jeopardizing Indias nearly $370 billion agricultural sector and hundreds of millions of jobs. The No. 1 risk we face is global climate change, because we are still very dependent on the monsoon, Jayant Sinha, the countrys junior finance minister and a Harvard Business School graduate, told Bloomberg News. The...

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Biggest Climate Threat You Never Heard of Is Stronger Than CO2

2015-10-30 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: The biggest global warming battle youve never heard of kicks off in Dubai this weekend. Climate negotiators from across the globe will gather in the Persian Gulf city to debate how to get rid of hydrofluorocarbons -- a class of hundreds of artificial chemicals used in refrigerators, air-conditioners, fire suppressants and other widely used products. While less common than greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide or methane, HFCs can be thousands of times more potent, pound for pound, at heating up...

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Climate change major security threat but old & bold don't get it

2015-10-28 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NEWS.com.au: CLIMATE change was a sleeper issue for ageing defence brass because potential security impacts were 20 to 30 years away according to former Chief of Defence retired Admiral Chris Barrie. Speaking at a Climate Security summit at the Australian Defence Force Academy Admiral Barrie, who is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University, said older military leaders tended to downplay the potential risk from climate change. "I think there are a lot of people in the 40-year-old and...

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Is heat stress the next threat to apparel supply chains?

2015-10-28 12:07:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Global manufacturing hubs in South-East Asia - including key clothing and footwear producers Vietnam and Cambodia - could see double-digit drops in worker productivity over the next 30 years due to the impact of rising temperatures and extreme heat stress, a new report warns.

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