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Coalition business leaders challenges 2C climate change target
2015-12-06 20:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of high-profile business leaders has challenged governments to set strong targets and not slam the door on limiting warming to 1.5C. On Monday, a Paris meeting aimed at reaching a global deal to fight climate change kicks up to a gear, with government ministers taking charge of negotiations. As ministers arrived in Paris, the chief executives of companies such as Virgin, Marks & Spencer, LOreal and Unilever said it was critical for governments to reach for stronger targets that would...
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Mary Robinson: climate change 'very likely' to increase radicalisation
2015-12-06 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conservation: Former Irish president Mary Robinson is one of the worlds leading voices on climate justice. Appearing at the UN climate summit in Paris, Robinson has argued for warming to be kept within 1.5°C, to protect the nations most at risk from the effects climate change. She has also campaigned for women to be front and centre in the negotiations, citing their increased vulnerability in a warming world. Robinson was President of Ireland from 1990-97, after which she was appointed United Nations High...
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Climate change: Scientists turn to faith enlist supporters
2015-12-06 19:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The cold hard numbers of science haven't spurred the world to curb runaway global warming. So as climate negotiators struggle in Paris, some scientists who appealed to the rational brain are enlisting what many would consider a higher power: the majesty of faith. It's not God versus science, but followers of God and science together trying to save humanity and the planet, they say. Physicist John Schellnhuber, founder of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said he...
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Naomi Klein criticises protest restrictions at Paris climate talks
2015-12-06 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: French authorities are enforcing unprecedented restrictions on civil society at the UN climate change talks in Paris, the author and activist Naomi Klein has said. Klein said the ongoing talks were a victim of austerity as the French government had failed to provide adequate state funding, leading to heavy sponsorship by corporations. Meanwhile authorities have imposed a ban on mass protests around COP21, as the conference is known, in the wake of last months terror attacks in Paris. We...
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ArcticNet in Vancouver discussing 'unsettling speed' of climate change
2015-12-06 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Top Arctic scientists will gather in Vancouver this week to discuss everything from caribou populations to the high cost of food but underlying it all is the unsettling speed with which the northern climate is changing. "It's a real challenge," said Ross Brown, an Environment Canada researcher who is to speak this week at the ArcticNet conference. Brown's presentation will attempt to sum up the profound changes that are expected in the Eastern Arctic if international meetings such as the one...
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