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Paris climate deal hinges on better carbon accountancy
2016-01-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Indonesias Central Kalimantan province, a lightly populated swathe of Borneo, is a hotbed for greenhouse gases that are emitted through deforestation, family farming and industrial palm-oil production. Last year, these activities fuelled devastating fires that torched more than 400,000 hectares in the province and at least 2.5 million hectares across the developing nation. By some estimates, the fires released into the atmosphere more than twice as much carbon as Germany emits in a year. Calculating...
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Ottawa to seek climate change study of energy projects
2016-01-27 03:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: The Trudeau government will insist on environmental assessments for two major West Coast natural resource projects to take into account their greenhouse gas emissions, a senior source said Tuesday. But the proposal -- Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has only said to expect an announcement within days -- will not delay either project, the source said. We are keenly aware that significant commercial actors have spent a lot of good money in good faith on a process that they were assured by...
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Will snow become a thing of the past as the climate warms?
2016-01-27 03:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Snowmageddon has become something of an annual tradition. Barely a year goes by without someone, somewhere, finding themselves on the receiving end of a severe snowstorm. The latest unlucky people, of course, are the inhabitants of New York. Given that the world is getting steadily warmer as a result of man-made climate change, this strikes many people as pretty weird. Surely we should not be seeing so many extreme snowstorms if the world is getting warmer? One response, which arrives almost...
Climate compensation schemes 'failing to reach poorest'
2016-01-27 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Frontier Post: Remote communities are not receiving the compensation they are entitled to from schemes designed to conserve tropical forests, a study suggests. People who depend on being able to harvest forest resources should receive payment under the schemes. But researchers say there is a "reality gap" between safeguards designed to help affected communities and who actually receives the compensation. The findings have been published online in Global Environment Change. "About 11% of global emissions...
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Denmark preps for climate change by building parks transform into ponds
2016-01-27 02:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Danes may be among the happiest people in the world, but its going to take more than a good attitude to prepare for Denmarks coming deluge. Climate change has big plans for the country, including loads and loads of heavy downpours. In just the past five years, Denmark`s capital, Copenhagen, has been hit by two alleged "100-year floods" -- in other words, floods so disastrous, theyre only supposed to occur once a century. So what`s the best way to paddle a waterlogged city to safety? Here`s...
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