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U.N. chief aims to build defenses of poor against climate change
2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that climate-related disasters are taking an ever greater toll on the poor and can wipe out decades of development gains, as he launched a global partnership to boost the resilience of vulnerable communities. The impacts of climate change - from intensifying droughts and floods to sea-level rise - are strengthening, as ecosystems and food and water supplies come under increasing pressure, he said. Economic losses from disasters have increased by more...
World headed 'suicide' if no climate agreement: Pope
2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.N. climate conference in Paris is most likely humanity's last chance to thwart global environmental disaster, Pope Francis said on Monday, warning the world was "at the limits of suicide". The pope, who wrote a major document on the environment last June, made the comment in an hour-long news conference aboard the plane returning him to Rome at the end of a six-day trip to Africa. The freewheeling conversations have become a trademark of his papacy and the few times he takes direct questions...
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Exxon takes aim at Columbia University journalists for role in climate reports
2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: ExxonMobil is hurling ethics accusations against a team of Columbia University journalists whose reporting helped stoke calls for probes into whether the company deliberately misled the public about climate change. The oil giant went on the offensive in a Nov. 20 letter, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO. It comes as investigations by the Columbia journalists in the Los Angeles Times and a separate report by the nonprofit website InsideClimate News continue to stoke Democratic calls for...
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Why climate change isn't winning issue US politics
2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Facing the prospect of a historic agreement at international climate change talks that formally began Monday in Paris, House majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R) of California had a message: We're not paying for it. The statement that the Republican-led House would block funds for a potential post-Paris climate plan was a clear reminder that little has changed in the American politics of climate change. There are small signs of movement. Most of the 2016 candidates in both parties have said they...
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Twitter creates new emoji for COP21 climate summit in Paris
2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Twitter unveiled at least three new climate-related emoji to mark the U.N. Climate Summit, which is activated using the hashtag #COP21. More than 140 world leaders, including President Obama, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, are in Paris for the high-stakes event. The summit is aimed at forging the first-ever truly global agreement to cut emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases. .@twitter has created new emojis to mark the beginning of the UN Climate...
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