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Pentagon to lose emissions exemption under Paris climate deal
2015-12-14 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US military and armed forces of countries around the world will no longer be automatically exempted from emissions-cutting obligations under the UN Paris climate deal, the Guardian has learned. Although the US never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, it won an opt-out from having to fully report or act on its armed forces greenhouse gas emissions, which was then double-locked by a House national defence authorisation bill in 1999. Under the Paris agreement, countries would not be obliged to cut...
How Trees Try to Cope With Climate Change
2015-12-14 12:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery News: Imagine that youre lost in a desert, or some other inhospitable environment. Youve got two choices. One is to stay in place and conserve supplies and water, in order to make them last. The other is to push on tenaciously and hope that you find a way out of your predicament. As it turns out, trees are like that too, when it comes to coping with the hotter, drier environment created by climate change. In a new article in the journal Global Change Biology, University of Washington researchers studied...
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The Paris agreement signals deniers have lost climate wars
2015-12-14 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: n stark contrast to the shortcomings of previous international climate negotiations, the Paris COP21 talks have ended with an agreement stronger than most expected. Graham Readfearn summarized the agreement for The Guardian. The guts of the agreement hang off the so-called long-term goal that commits almost 200 countries to hold the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C. The long-term...
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Auto Industry CEOs Unite In Rare Vow To Tackle Climate Change
2015-12-14 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Its not easy to get the worlds major automakers to agree on anything. But even before last weekends landmark climate change agreement by world leaders in Paris, 13 auto industry chief executives from the U.S., Europe and Asia had pledged to accelerate the development of cleaner vehicles to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. The CEOs of General Motors, Ford Motor, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Nissan-Renault Alliance, Volvo Group, Beijing Automotive Group and Indias Mahindra & Mahindra, along...
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Negotiators In Paris Sign Off On Ambitious Climate Deal
2015-12-14 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Over the weekend in Paris, representatives from 196 countries signed an agreement that aims to curb climate change. What's in it, and what happens next?
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