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India says Paris climate deal won't affect plans double coal output
2015-12-14 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India still plans to double coal output by 2020 and rely on the resource for decades afterwards, a senior official said on Monday, days after rich and poor countries agreed in Paris to curb carbon emissions blamed for global warming. India, the world's third-largest carbon emitter, is dependant on coal for about two-thirds of its energy needs and has pledged to mine more of the fuel to power its resource-hungry economy while also promising to increase clean energy generation. "The environment is...
How Climate Deal Was Designed Be Republican-Proof
2015-12-14 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At 11.30pm Paris time, a small group of White House officials dashed into a temporary plywood hut in the exhibition hall where, a few hours earlier, a historic legal agreement to cut emissions causing climate change was secured. They were just in time to catch a live feed of Barack Obama declaring a turning point for the world. These were the officials who helped set the US negotiating position for the talks or, perhaps more accurately, helped craft the deal according to US specifications...
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Countries just adopted a historic climate change accord. Heres what happens next
2015-12-14 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The word historic, already being used to describe the just-accepted Paris climate agreement, is more than warranted. The world will now have a new and comprehensive regime in place to shape how its diverse nations go about the urgent task of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Thats why climate activists are ecstatic the world over right now. Its a big deal. The more ambiguous news, however, is that this document, by its very nature, depends on key sectors of society to respond to...
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Obama: Paris climate pact can be a turning point for the world
2015-12-14 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama is celebrating victory in getting an international climate accord Saturday, saying it will help stop some of the worst effects of climate change from occurring. In a Saturday evening address at the White House, Obama took significant credit for the United States leading role in the the process toward the agreement. Today, the American people can be proud, because this historic agreement is a tribute to American leadership, he said, highlighting both the domestic climate actions...
Can the Paris agreement protect poor farmers from climate change?
2015-12-14 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Purity Gachanga is one small-scale farmer who is beating climate change. On her several acres of land in Embu North district in central Kenya, she keeps cows and goats that produce milk, grows trees for fodder, and collects water to irrigate her food crops in a pond filled with tilapia fish. Since she started out in the 1970s, she has overcome increasingly erratic rainfall by using new technologies and trying out different crops and trees. She even turns her animal manure into biogas, harnessing...
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