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Five surprises on the path to a Paris climate deal
2015-12-21 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Around this time last December, I flagged 2015 as a year for carbon pricing, peer pressure and Paris. That was the headline, anyway. Fossil fuel divestment promised to be another theme of the twelvemonth. Lo, it came to pass. Ok, so carbon pricing is still bigger in theory than practice. Peer pressure proved a remarkably successful way of getting climate pledges, from 187 out of 195 countries although as predicted it did not add up to 2C worth of ambition. And it all culminated in the Paris climate...
Loss Of Large Fruit-Eating Animals Could Accelerate Climate Change
2015-12-21 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Tropical rainforests could suffer if large fruit-eating animals such as primates, tapirs and even toucans were to go extinct, simply because trees can't disperse their seeds without the help of these animals. This could drastically accelerate the impacts of climate change since tropical forests are natural carbon sinks, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA). "Large birds and mammals provide almost all the seed dispersal services for large-seeded plants. Several large...
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Paris climate agreement latest sign of trouble for Canadas oil patch
2015-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: When solar entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett bumped into Suncor Energy boss Steve Williams at the World Economic Forum in 2014, odds were high that tempers would flare. The two men were among about 40 dinner guests a mix of CEOs, pension fund managers, economists and government leaders. They had gathered in Davos, Switzerland, to talk about short-termism in the financial and corporate worlds and how it undermines efforts to tackle climate change. At one point during the dinner, Leggett recalls...
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Climate Institute in Australia fights for survival as philanthropic donation runs out
2015-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A leading think tank and lobby group on climate change is fighting for its survival after the multimillion-dollar support of its primary benefactor ran out. The Climate Institute, which has become one of Australia's most prominent environment and climate groups since being set up through a bequest in 2005, suffered a 62 per cent fall in revenue last financial year. It came at the end of a decade of backing from foundations run by Rupert Murdoch's niece Eve Kantor and her husband, farmer Mark Wootton,...
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Paris talks ignite Toronto climate change advocates
2015-12-21 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Fewer cars, more efficient buildings, greater urban density. These are just some of the ideas being kicked around as cities such as Toronto try to figure out how to meet their goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by the year 2050. Thats less than 35 years away. The success of this months Paris climate talks in early December, where global leaders committed to hold the worlds average temperature increase to below 2 degrees, has given climate change advocates renewed hope...
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