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Climate Disasters Pose Growing Threat to Food Security
2015-11-30 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Droughts, floods, storms and other disasters triggered by climate change have risen in frequency and severity, putting many developing countries at risk of growing food insecurity, FAO has warned in a new report released ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris.
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Protesters gather around the world for strong climate change deal
2015-11-30 00:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hundreds of thousands of people around the world, from Sydney to New York, marched on Sunday to call on world leaders meeting in Paris to agree a strong climate change deal. In Paris, pairs of shoes given by Pope Francis and Ban Ki-moon were among a collection set out in the Place de la République to represent those who were unable to march due to a ban by the French authorities in the aftermath of 13 November terror attacks. People lit candles, sang songs and wandered around the shoes, many of...
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On climate change, Trudeau pulls a bait-and-switch
2015-11-30 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Sun: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is getting a lot of love from climate change campaigners these days simply because he doesn't insult them. The last prime minister -- that would be Stephen Harper, of course -- had a natural resources minister that talked about "environmentalists and other radical groups" who would "hijack our regulatory system." One of Harper's public safety ministers tabled anti-terrorism legislation that specifically identified environmentalists as a threat. It was all part of a...
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Why climate change hope is not misplaced: Tim Harper
2015-11-30 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: It was 13 years ago. Jean Chrétiens government ratified the Kyoto Protocol and the Liberal prime minister proclaimed Canada is a good citizen of the world. It was four years ago. Stephen Harpers Conservatives pulled Canada out of the protocol. Kyoto, for Canada, is in the past, said his environment minister, Peter Kent. After more than a decade of spinning our wheels or worse on climate change, why is there hope a new Liberal government under Justin Trudeau and a new cast of provincial...
Paris Deal Would Herald Important First Step on Climate Change
2015-11-29 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama and more than 100 world leaders will convene with thousands of diplomats on Monday on the outskirts of Paris to open two weeks of intense negotiations aimed at forging an accord that could begin to avert the most devastating effects of global warming and redefine the economy of the 21st century. Here is a guide to what is at stake. If the talks fail as they did in two previous attempts to achieve such a deal then nations will continue on a trajectory that scientists say locks...
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