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Nations urged to improve climate pledges by April 2017
2015-12-22 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In a new global warming pact, countries set out milestones over the next five years in a bid to bridge the gap between national targets and what science recommends. Climate offers from 187 out of 195 countries fail to cap warming to the upper limit of 2C this century. Instead the planet is set to heat up at least 2.7C, according to the UN. Thats why a global stocktake of pledges to reduce greenhouse emissions or intended nationally determined contributions is slated for 2018. And by 2020,...
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Paris climate summits best pics in tweets
2015-12-22 10:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The COP21 extravaganza welcomed world leaders, diplomats and indigenous leaders to Paris this month. Here are some of the top shots according to Twitter users.
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Assam border farmers fenced in by changing climate conditions
2015-12-22 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Golok Das, a farmer in Assam, is happy with the harvest produced by his main 6-hectare farm. But he'd love to sell another 4-hectare plot, just half a kilometre away, even though it's equally fertile. Why? It sits on the other side of a barbed-wire fence marking the Bangladesh border, and that means he can't irrigate it. The fence was built in 1987 to prevent illegal migration from Bangladesh to India. It traces a line about 150 yards inside the actual border, on Indian land, since no treaty agreement...
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Japan to Consider Emissions Trading in Climate Change Plan
2015-12-21 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Japan may consider introducing national-emissions trading as part of a set of measures it intends to put together by early next year to tackle climate change. The government will compile the climate change plan to fulfill its pledge to reduce emissions by 26 percent by 2030 from 2013 levels, according to a statement issued Tuesday. The pledge was made earlier this year to the United Nations. Two government panels -- one set up by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and another by the...
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Looking forward: Fertilizer strategy, climate extremes, water management
2015-12-21 23:04:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
I like to take time every December to reflect on the past year, as well as weigh changes for the coming year and beyond. I know there are big profit challenges ahead while facing greater weather extremes. Think Different read more
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