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Dear U.N., Why Is It Mainly A Man's World At The Climate Conference?
2015-12-10 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: ear United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, "Get Cross." "Break the silence." "When you witness violence against women and girls, do not sit back. Act." Those are your words, Mr. Ban Ki-moon. As the U.N. secretary general, you have been forward about promoting gender equality and denouncing violence against women. Yet this month, at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21), one of the biggest conferences in the world, where important decisions about climate change and our planet's future are...
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Activists to defy protest ban giant civil disobedience end Paris climate talks
2015-12-10 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As negotiators try to finalize a UN climate pact being hailed as dangerously insufficient, a network of groups will express their outrage and pledge continuing action in the new year with massive civil disobedience at an iconic French site. Organizers hope to send a message that leaders should not try to claim the agreement is a success - with industrialized countries refusing to commit to a fair share of emissions reductions, putting the world on a path toward a catastrophic 3 degrees of warming....
Climate scientists battle South African industry
2015-12-10 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: South Africa is the second biggest economy in Africa. It is also heavily reliant on coal, and its struggles to address climate change without hampering development resonate with the whole continent. But this conflict may be a false one, aired by big fossil fuel firms with an interest in protecting their profits, says South African energy expert Hilton Trollip from the University of Cape Town. In the run up to the UN climate summit now reaching its climax, the worlds countries submitted proposals...
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The face of climate change: how Inuit youth lead the fight to save the Arctic
2015-12-10 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Maatalii Okalik is tired of seeing polar bears as the face of climate change. Make it an Inuit face. Were the ones that are really affected by it, she told the Guardian in a phone interview from Paris. At the Paris climate conference, the bear is a trope on banners and posters. Politicians and activists are taking note of the Arctics plight, invoking sprawling vistas and vulnerable wildlife as a cautionary tale. This summer, I saw the effects of climate change first-hand in our northernmost...
Can Pulling Carbon from Air Make Difference on Climate?
2015-12-10 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: At the end of a quiet gravel road in Squamish, British Columbia, on a patch of land destined to become a seaside housing development, sits a small industrial site. There is a barn-sized shed, a few tanks and pipes, and, in the center, whirring away, a giant fan. It looks like a fairly normal factory. But while factories typically create greenhouse gas emissions, the sole Carbon Engineering A large fan pulls CO2 from the air at a pilot facility operated by Carbon Engineering in British Columbia....
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