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Brexit is not a vote against climate change says UN's climate chief
2016-06-28 16:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britains decision to leave the European Union was not a vote against climate change, nor was it a vote against the innovation key to fighting climate change, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told an audience of business and policymakers at the annual Business & Climate summit in London today. In her last speech as the head of UNs climate change body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Figueres said, Its absolutely clear that should article 50 be triggered, the UK would have...
UK leadership contender Boris Johnson not a climate denier
2016-06-28 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Conservative colleague Lord Barker insists former London mayor would not unpick environmental legislation if elected leader Boris Johnson is expected to run for the UK Conservative Party leadership As UK prime minister David Cameron heads to Brussels for Brexit talks with his European counterparts, in London the race is on for his successor. Former London mayor and natural blond Boris Johnson is a frontrunner for the Conservative leadership, with home secretary Teresa May his closest rival....
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Will Brexit really mean a UK climate policy bonfire?
2016-06-28 15:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: It`s easy to assume Brexit means a cull of green policies, but the strength of the low carbon economy suggests that`s not a given Five days into a post-Brexit world and there are plenty of questions, few answers. Three stand out amid the vitriolic op-eds in some newspapers and twitterstorms sweeping social media. -Whos in charge? -Whats their philosophy? -How will they collaborate with Europe? Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), an influential Paris-based...
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Notice to warming deniers: Weather and climate are different things
2016-06-28 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newport Independent: Global-warming skeptics love to make the argument that the changeability of weather forecasts in the short term disproves claims by climate scientists that potential disaster lies just a few decades away as the planet heats up. The fundamental problem with such skepticism is that weather and climate are not the same thing. TV meteorologists are not climatologists. Sometimes it's more difficult to predict whether Sunday's ballgame will be rained out than whether melting glaciers will cause...
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Brexit throws spanner into EU climate policy
2016-06-28 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brecorder: Britain's exit from the European Union may erode the bloc's leadership role in fighting climate change and stymie crucial efforts to set more ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gases, officials and experts said Tuesday. The damage will become worse the longer the divorce proceedings drag on, or if Brexit inspires other EU nations to follow suit, they said. European leaders meeting in Brussels pressured British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday to launch the two-year withdrawal process...
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