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NFU Applauds Obama Administration, International Leaders on Historic Climate Change Deal
2015-12-14 18:42:27| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (December 14, 2015) National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson applauded the Obama administration and international leaders on reaching a historic and ambitious agreement that works to mitigate the potentially devastating effects of climate change on family farmers, ranchers and global food
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Does climate deal sideline business?
2015-12-14 17:46:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Whose business is climate change?
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Living fossils: the plants holding the key to ancient and modern climate change
2015-12-14 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ask the average person to name a living fossil, the chances are they will think of the coelacanth, or perhaps horseshoe crabs. However, plant examples of living fossils are all around us, surviving from long before the rise of todays dominant plants. The flowering plants, or angiosperms, are the basis of our food chain and include grasses and broad-leaved trees. But seed plants such as conifers and cycads, and even ancient spore producers such as ferns and clubmosses, continue to earn a living in...
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Germany to set out climate action plan by mid-2016
2015-12-14 15:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany will lay out a climate action plan for 2050 by the middle of next year and is talking to industry groups and trade unions about ways to end coal-fired power generation, its Environment Minister said on Monday. Global leaders clinched a breakthrough deal in Paris on Saturday to transform the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming. While Germany's green energy campaign has earned it the reputation of a leader in environmental policy, critics...
Paris climate deal paves way further science
2015-12-14 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: A deal to reduce global emissions and help the world adapt to climate change was signed in Paris on 12 December -- with earlier concerns that science would be ignored allayed by new promises. The agreement, signed by 195 countries, states the "aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible'. Nations will cut their emissions "rapidly' and "in accordance with best available science' to reach a "balance' between manmade emissions and carbon removals from the atmosphere...
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