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Granddaughter of Exxon Scientist Confronts CEO Over Funding Climate Denial
2016-05-27 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now!: At its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, ExxonMobil shareholders rejected a series of resolutions Wednesday calling for climate action, including resolutions backed by CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System, as well as New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and the Church of England. Shareholders did pass a measure to let minority shareholders nominate outsiders for seats on the board, raising the possibility that a climate activist could someday become a director at Exxon....
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Australia Pressed UN To Ignore Great Barrier Reef In Key Climate Report
2016-05-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A key paper about the threats of climate change to World Heritage sites intentionally left off any mention of the Great Barrier Reef after the Australian government raised an objection, according to a report from the Guardian. The reef, which is experiencing the worst coral bleaching event on record, was removed after officials from the Australian Environment Department said inclusion would have had a negative impact on tourism. "Recent experience in Australia had shown that negative commentary...
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ExxonMobil is in its climate change bunker and wont let reality in
2016-05-27 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When one of the worlds largest pension funds tells the biggest oil company on the planet that it faces an existential threat, there are stormy times ahead. The Guardian wanted to give you the latest weather report from inside ExxonMobils annual general meeting in Dallas on Wednesday, but the newspapers reporter was banned. Battening down the hatches and whistling as the winds of climate change threaten its business has been the oil giants strategy for decades. The problem for ExxonMobil is,...
Australia removed from UN world heritage climate report
2016-05-27 13:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: All references to climate change's impact on World Heritage sites in Australia have been removed from a United Nations report. A draft of the report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef and references to Kakadu and Tasmania. But Australia's Department of the Environment requested that Unesco scrub these sections from the final version. A statement from the department said the report could have had an impact on tourism to Australian. It also said the report's title, Destinations at Risk,...
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Brazils impeachment crisis is bad news for climate change
2016-05-27 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It may be hard to recall amid all the bad news coming from Brazil these days -- the country`s worst recession in 30 years, its unprecedented corruption crisis, and above all the May 12 Senate vote to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and begin an impeachment trial against her -- but this country has in recent years occupied a position of critical global leadership on climate change. Brazil is the worlds biggest reducer of greenhouse gas emissions, having slashed Amazon deforestation about 80 percent...
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