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Are Chinese businesses responsible for helping China achieve its climate goals?
2016-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Chinas offshore oil drilling firm and the countrys largest oil producer with $98.53bn in revenue in 2014, China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) inevitably disturbs marine life as it probes seabeds around the world for resources. Like other big oil firms, the company has caused its share of environmental disasters, including a 2011 oil spill that contaminated 840 sq km (324 sq miles) of Bohai Bay, off Chinas northeastern shore. CNOOC got in trouble with government regulators for initially concealing...
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India to sign Paris pact on climate change in New York
2016-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: India will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted by more than 190 countries in December last, on Friday in New York. The Union Cabinet today aopproved the signing of the agreement, adopted during the 21st Conference of Parties held in the French capital. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will sign the agreement on behalf of India on April 22 at a high-level signature ceremony convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. India had advocated a strong...
Soy boom threatens Brazils climate goals
2016-04-20 02:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Brazils economy is teetering on the edge of collapse. The countrys political regime has been rocked by recent corruption scandals, and impeachment proceedings are encircling the nations leaders. And yet things couldnt be much better for Brazils soybean farmers. At the beginning of the last decade, Brazil emerged as a major soybean exporter. Today, Brazil produces about one-third of the global supply and earns more from soybean exports than from any other commodity. Although soybean production...
It's too late to halt climate change and our society is doomed but wait that's the good news
2016-04-20 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: It was a full decade ago now that not-quite-president Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim captured the worlds attention with An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on the premise that we still had time to prevent or limit the most devastating effects of climate change if we acted immediately. In case you havent noticed, we didnt. In the United States, the fossil-fuel industry and its Republican lackeys picked away at a handful of loose scientific threads in the film, depicting it as some partisan,...
Senate Republicans Want To Cut Funding For UN Climate Change Agency, Because Palestine
2016-04-20 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: More than two dozen Republican senators this week asked Secretary of State John Kerry not to provide any funding for the United States' involvement in the United Nations effort to address climate change, saying they object to the U.N. treating Palestine as a state. The Palestinians joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international treaty that governs action on climate change, in March. On Monday, the group of 28 senators, led by Wyoming Republican John Barrasso,...
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