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Senators to Lynch: End climate change investigations
2016-05-26 18:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Examiner: Attorney General Loretta Lynch must drop all efforts to prosecute climate change skeptics or risk engaging in "prosecutorial misconduct," a group of Senate Judiciary Committee members warned. "As you well know, initiating criminal prosecution for a private entity's opinions on climate change is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and an abuse of power that rises to the level of prosecutorial misconduct," five lawmakers wrote to Lynch on Wednesday. Signatories were Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah,...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Grants $650k to Accelerate Climate Change Solutions
2016-05-26 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Following the April signing of the Paris agreement, R20 Regions of Climate Action (R20) and Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) announced the formation of a new partnership to rapidly identify and fund projects that address the urgency of climate change. Financially supported by LDF under a new $650,000 grant, this partnership allows R20 to rapidly identify renewable energy, energy efficiency and waste management initiatives that have the potential to bring positive environmental and social benefits...
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Exxon, Chevron wont budge on climate so what happens next?
2016-05-26 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The world is going to have to continue using fossil fuels, whether they like it or not. That was CEO Rex Tillerson`s promise -- or threat -- at the ExxonMobil AGM in Dallas on Wednesday. His combative stance was matched by Chevron counterpart John Watson. You can sign agreements in Paris, thats a good step, he said. But when you sign agreements and create the impression that its going to be implemented when no ones identified the trillions of dollars that its going to cost, its...
World Heritage Sites at Risk from Climate Change
2016-05-26 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Climate change is quickly becoming one of the most challenging risks for World Heritage sites and the tourists who want to visit them, finds the report "World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate," released today by UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Globally, we need to understand, monitor and address climate change threats to World Heritage sites better," said Mechtild Rössler, director of UNESCO's World Heritage Centre. "As...
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French minister warns of mass climate change migration if world doesn't act
2016-05-26 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global warming will create hundreds of millions of climate change migrants by the end of the century if governments do not act, Frances environment minister has warned. Ségolne Royal told ministers from 170 countries at the UN environment assembly in Nairobi that climate change was linked to conflicts, which in turned caused migration. Climate change issues lead to conflict, and when we analyse wars and conflicts that have taken place over the last few years we see some are linked to an...
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