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Laurent Fabius: From Greenpeace shame to climate champion
2015-12-17 17:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Laurent Fabius was not always a darling of climate campaigners. In 1985 he was prime minister when the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French agents in Auckland harbour. It took months for the government to come clean. When it did, Fabius was sent to explain. The truth is cruel. Agents of the French secret service sank this boat, he said. Time is a healer. In the early evening of Saturday 12 December 2015 Fabius, now French foreign minister, sealed his position as the worlds foremost...
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Paris deal boosts plan for New York climate change museum
2015-12-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New York City's museum devoted to climate change has no walls, no admission fee and no exhibits. In fact, it doesn't exist yet. It's an idea that its planners, led by Miranda Massie, attorney-turned-museum director, are hoping to make a reality. They are eyeing an opening in 2020, with pop-ups and publicity between now and then to get it off the ground. Yet, despite growing pressure to cut planet-warming emissions and the new historic global accord on climate change reached in Paris last weekend,...
After historic Paris agreement, U.S. must lead climate efforts by pricing carbon
2015-12-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post-Dispatch: After decades of contentious and often acrimonious negotiations, the nations of the world have come together with an agreement that places our civilization on a path toward avoiding the worst effects of climate change. The Paris accord is one of those rare moments when every nation acknowledges that, for the good of all, we must act as one. It was a wonderful surprise that after the incredible disappointment of Copenhagen, these 195 countries could come to an agreement more ambitious than anyone...
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Investors put pressure on miners to respond to climate change
2015-12-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An alliance of around 100 investors is calling on mining companies Anglo American Glencore and Rio Tinto to show that they are working to lessen the impact of climate change on their businesses. The group of European fund managers and pension funds including Aviva, Amundi and Schroders, which together manage over $4 trillion in assets, will file shareholder resolutions to the firms this month, investor coalition "Aiming for A" said on Wednesday. Shareholders will vote on the resolutions at...
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Report: Climate change could cost 11,000 outdoor jobs
2015-12-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Great Falls Tribune: The cost of unabated climate change in Montana could be 11,000 jobs and $281 million in labor earnings by 2050, according to a new report that attempts to quantify its economic impacts on the state's outdoor economy, including hunting, fishing, skiing and snowmobiling. The report, released Tuesday, was completed by Donovan Power Consulting, a Montana-based economic consulting firm headed by the former head of the economics department at the University of Montana, at the request of the Montana...
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