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Will Brazil new climate sheriffs get Paris pledges on track?
2016-03-04 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Work is piling up in Brazils sluggish climate office. The South American heavyweight has a backlog of policy decisions to clear, and demanding carbon-cutting targets to hit. A sudden reshuffle of its leadership this week offers a chance to revive the secretariat. Jose Miguez, a former engineer at state oiler Petrobras has taken the reins in Brasilia, replacing ministry number two Carlos Klink. Thelma Krug, a respected climate scientist, is now the country`s deforestation 'sheriff`, succeeding...
The next president could make or break the Paris climate agreement
2016-03-04 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: The upcoming election could determine if the US continues that leadership role, or if it reneges on its commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Climate policy falls along party lines If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wins the White House, US climate policy would, in broad strokes, stay the current course. Both Sanders and Clinton agree with the established science that climate change is largely man-made, and have mostly backed President Barack...
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Climate Action After Paris: Not the Yellow Brick Road
2016-03-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: "Follow the yellow brick road". So Dorothy is told in the classic 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz. Alas, if the world's economies only had such a clear and singular path to follow subsequent to the recent promising Paris Climate Accord. While the accord has raised hopes that government leaders are serious about reversing climate change, in reality, the path forward is probably more like a vast river with multiple tributaries that merge before powering toward the sea. To significantly reduce our carbon...
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Carbon tax wrangling center stage at Canada climate change talks
2016-03-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Strains over stalled Canadian oil pipeline projects and Ottawa's push to impose a national carbon price hung over talks on Thursday between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the country's 10 provinces on how to tackle global warming. Trudeau's Liberal Party won an election last October on a pledge to do much more than the previous administration to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, which are climbing as firms exploit Canada's vast crude-rich oil sands. Behind the scenes, Trudeau officials have...
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Climate change could cause an extra 500000 deaths in 2050
2016-03-04 06:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change could cause significant changes to global diets, leading to more than half a million extra deaths in 2050 from illnesses such as stroke, cancer, and heart disease, experts said on Wednesday. As extreme weather such as floods and heat waves wreaks havoc with harvests and crop yields, estimated increases in food availability could be cut by a third by 2050, according to the experts' study published in The Lancet medical journal. This would lead to a reduction of 99 calories available...
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