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An economist's take on how to combat climate change
2015-12-04 01:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PBS: We turn to economists Gernot Wagner of the Environmental Defense Fund and Martin L. Weitzman of Harvard University for how economics might be able to tackle the immense problem that is climate change. The co-authors of Climate Shock last took to Making Sen$e to make their case for insuring ourselves against global warming by pricing carbon dioxide pollution. Below, Wagner and Weitzman discuss the 2 degree Celsius threshold and offer steps world leaders can take to combat climate change. For...
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Climate Summit May be Heading for a Showdown Over Financing
2015-12-04 00:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The two-week long Paris summit, which is expected to adopt a landmark international treaty on climate change by mid-December, may be heading for a political showdown over one of the most controversial issues at the ongoing talks: financing. The 132-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing nations, including China, has declared that nothing will be achieved at the summit without the necessary funding both for adaptation and to fight the negative fallout from climate change....
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U.S. Should Lead Global Fight Against Climate Change, Americans Say
2015-12-04 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Most Americans believe climate change is real, and want the U.S. to take the lead in fighting it, according to a set of HuffPost/YouGov surveys taken during the runup to the Paris climate summit, a meeting of more than 100 world leaders to discuss taking action against climate change. A 52 percent majority of Americans think the U.S. should take a global leadership role in trying to prevent climate change, while 26 percent think it should not, with the rest unsure. Just 28 percent, though,...
Largest utilities avoid Obamaa s corporate pledge on climate change
2015-12-03 22:11:06| Beverages - Topix.net
Duke Energy is among the nation's largest utility companies that have not signed the American Business Act on Climate pledge. As the nation's largest electric power holding company with 7.3 million U.S. customers, Duke Energy says it has set voluntary carbon reduction goals and reduced carbon emissions by 22 percent since 2005.
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Climate talks set to fail if no deal on money, say poor nations
2015-12-03 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Angry developing nations warned Thursday that increasingly tense UN talks aimed at averting catastrophic climate change would fail unless a bitter feud over hundreds of billions of dollars was resolved. Negotiators from 195 nations are haggling in Paris over a planned universal accord to slash greenhouse-gas emissions that trap the Sun's heat, warming Earth's surface and oceans and disrupting its delicate climate system. Taking effect from 2020, the pact would target emissions from fossil fuels...
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