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Green Climate Fund clears way for $2.5 bln funding challenge
2016-03-11 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Green Climate Fund made progress in closing administrative and policy gaps at a meeting in South Korea this week, and now faces the uphill task of allocating $2.5 billion this year for projects to tackle climate change, experts said. The 24-member board of the fund, which aims to become a major channel for tens of billions of dollars to help poorer nations develop cleanly and adjust to more extreme weather and rising seas, approved 13 new agencies to carry out projects. It also agreed to...
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Republicans Dodge Climate Questions During Presidential Debate
2016-03-11 04:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Green Tech Media: The subject of climate change was raised on Thursday at the Republican debate in Miami -- a city with pressing concerns about its effects. Marco Rubio, the Florida senator fighting strongly on home ground as he sought to revive his presidential campaign, was asked: "Will you acknowledge the reality of the scientific consensus of climate change?' Rubio said: "Sure, the climate is changing ... There was never a time when the climate was not changing.' Air conditioning accounts for almost 15...
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Rubio: No law can fight climate change
2016-03-11 04:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) pushed back against proposals to fight climate change, saying there is no law that could impact global carbon dioxide emissions during Thursday's Republican presidential debate. In one of the most lengthy exchanges on the issue in any GOP debate in the 2016 cycle, the Florida senator avoided saying whether he believes human activity contributes to climate change. Instead, he said liberals want to implement climate policies that would ruin the economy with absolutely no...
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Grim prospects: the shake-up of Australia's climate science
2016-03-11 02:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The fate of the 'sentinel of the southern hemisphere' is a pointer to how Australia's climate research will fare in a funding world that has lately turned more hostile. Forty years ago next month Paul Fraser and three other CSIRO scientists towed a hardy NASA-built caravan chock with sensitive detecting equipment to Cape Grim on the pristine windswept tip of north-west Tasmania. The make-shift facility quickly made its mark, detecting ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere as they blew...
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U.S., Canada agree methane emissions cut to fight climate change
2016-03-10 15:24:36| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The United States and Canada have agreed joint steps to fight climate change, including cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas industry and signing the Paris climate deal "as soon as feasible," the White House said on Thursday. The agreement comes ahead of an Oval Office meeting between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Barack Obama at the White House.
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