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Engineering firm sees climate change opportunity in cities
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Dutch engineering company that is helping New York and New Orleans defend themselves against big storms and rising seas says climate change will be a source of business for decades regardless of the outcome of current climate talks in Paris. Arcadis, which doubled sales from 1 billion euros($1.08 billion) to 2 billion in 2007-2014 as it invested heavily in water management, says its future focus will be on 13 of the world's major urban centers threatened either by too much water or too little....
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Developing nations shift emissions stance in climate talks
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The once black-and-white world of climate negotiations for poorer countries has evolved into many shades of gray at talks this week in Paris. For years, many in the developing world said richer countries created the global warming problem with their industrial emissions so it is up to them to clean it up -- a sticking point in past climate negotiations. But there's no way that global warming can be kept below the international goal of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial...
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Paris climate talks: Africa means business on global warming
2015-12-04 14:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The term glacial pace takes on real and literal meaning with climate change. The disappearance of our glaciers may have hastened dramatically, but our efforts to stop them doing so have moved at a truly glacial pace. This has to change, right now. Since the Kyoto protocol came into being, we have failed miserably to protect our planet. Current trajectories show the world is on track towards a temperature rise of about 3C by 2100. Climate talks in Paris this month are our last chance to turn...
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Americans Sharply Divided On Climate Change, But Most Want U.S. To Lead
2015-12-04 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A LARGE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SEE CLIMATE CHANGE AS A PROBLEM - Scott Clement: "A clear but declining majority of Americans say climate change is a serious problem facing the United States in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with giant partisan disagreement on all aspects of the issue....Sixty-three percent of Americans say climate change is a serious problem facing the country, slipping from 69 percent in June.[N]early half of Americans, 47 percent, say the federal government should do more...
Ensuring food supplies amid a changing climate
2015-12-04 14:44:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Securing food supplies amid a changing climate.
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