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Canada: Liberals to formally unveil $8.3B 'climate change action plan'
2016-06-08 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: The Ontario government will spend up to $8.3 billion over the next five years on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Liberals new climate change action plan. In the 85-page final version of the strategy, revealed by the Star on Tuesday after weeks of speculation, the government hopes to reduce annual carbon emissions by 9,832,000 tonnes in 2020. Thats the equivalent of removing 2.3 million cars from Ontario roads. Environment and Climate Change Minister Glen Murray...
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Obama and India's Modi promise deals on climate change and energy
2016-06-08 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The leaders of India and the United States vowed Tuesday to ratify the Paris climate accord this year, pledged to nail down terms for limiting a potent greenhouse gas used as a refrigerant in air conditioners, and set a one-year deadline for concluding a deal for six commercial nuclear power plants. But the two sides provided few specifics about how they would achieve those goals beyond saying that President Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who were meeting at the White House, share the...
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Canada's North Is Going Green Because Of Climate Change: NASA Study
2016-06-07 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Climate change has caused almost a third of the land cover in Canada and Alaska to go green, according to a NASA study. Using 87,000 satellite images, researchers found there was extensive greening, or vegetation growth, between 1984 and 2012 in the western Alaska tundra and along the north and northeastern coast of Canada. In the April report, NASA researchers say the most intensive greening was observed in Quebec and Labrador. It's an "unmistakable" trend, researchers wrote. In this...
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Even sustainable Big Business wont lobby for climate progress
2016-06-07 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) gave readers an inside look at how Washington lobbyists fight climate change in an op-ed in Forbes on Tuesday - and the reality is grim, although not entirely surprising. The answer is, simply: They don`t. Sen. Whitehouse writes that even the industries that work to protect the environment and those that depend on natural resources for survival utterly fail to lobby on behalf of climate progress. This includes lobbyists for technology, insurance, and - most bizarrely...
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India moves toward US on climate change
2016-06-07 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Indian officials recognize how important the climate change issue is to this White HouseThe warm relationship comes after a period of strain between Washington and Modi Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed to attempting to ratify the Paris climate change agreement by the end of this year following a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday. The announcement was made in a statement after the meeting, where climate change was the main focus.India "has begun its...
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