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Air pollution and impacts on women's and children's health and climate change
2016-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Cooking and eating--caring for our families at home, moving onto work, school and markets, and then back home again. These are universal rituals that fill our days and the lives of people the world over. And yet there is an unrecognized health threat lurking in the shadows of our most basic routines: air pollution. It may appear as a faint haze on the urban horizon. Or it may be visible, as black and billowing smoke pouring out of the kitchen of a poor rural home. According to the latest World...
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Dominican Republic advances against deforestation effects of climate change
2016-06-13 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dominica Today: The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and the World Bank today launched the Project Preparation for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) that promote the use sustainable forest resources throughout the national territory and reducing emissions from deforestation for the benefit of poor rural communities and biodiversity. "This initiative represents one more step by the Dominican Government to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry sector...
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India coal pathway central to climate challenge
2016-06-13 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Analysts expect India`s power sector emissions to treble by 2040, blowing the 2C carbon budget, unless clean energy investment increases China`s economic rebalancing will see its greenhouse gas emissions peak as early as 2025, forecasts Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Yet rising coal use in India and other emerging Asian markets points to a 5% increase in global emissions from 2015 levels by 2040. More bullish about renewable energy`s prospects than oil majors are, BNEF`s outlook nonetheless...
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Can we reduce meats climate impact by eating more animal parts?
2016-06-13 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Q. A lot of people eat less meat as a way of decreasing their carbon footprints. It`s well-studied that some animals (e.g. beef) have a larger footprint than others, but I`ve wondered if different cuts of an animal also have differing impacts. Is cattle demand affected by demand for tongue, bones, and other less desirable parts, or is it mostly driven by demand for steak? Does demand for chicken gizzards increase the number of broiler chickens raised, and if not, would it then be a carbon-neutral...
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Biggest US coal company funded dozens groups questioning climate change
2016-06-13 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Peabody Energy, Americas biggest coalmining company, has funded at least two dozen groups that cast doubt on manmade climate change and oppose environment regulations, analysis by the Guardian reveals. The funding spanned trade associations, corporate lobby groups, and industry front groups as well as conservative thinktanks and was exposed in court filings last month. The coal company also gave to political organisations, funding twice as many Republican groups as Democratic ones. Peabody,...
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