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Ireland: Marches aim pressure Government ahead of climate summit
2015-11-28 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Thousands of people in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Belfast will take to the streets on Sunday to put pressure on the Government and world leaders ahead of the COP21 climate change summit in Paris. The marches, coinciding with similar events all over the world, are organised by Stop Climate Chaos a coalition of 28 NGOs and other groups including Friends of the Earth, Oxfam and Trócaire, and supported by Ictu. One of the groups, Peoples Climate, said the horrific and tragic events in Paris...
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UN chief warns climate change link with terrorism
2015-11-28 13:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says the attacks in Paris can't overshadow efforts to reach a climate change agreement at next week's summit. He also warns in an exclusive interview with CBC News of a possible link between climate change and terrorism. "When we do not address climate change properly it may also affect many people who are frustrated and who are impacted, then there is some possibility that these young people who [are] jobless and frustrated may join these foreign terrorist...
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Germany's Merkel urges strict, binding goals to tackle climate change
2015-11-28 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany's chancellor gave a qualified welcome on Saturday to China's pledge to tackle rising temperatures ahead of a global climate conference but she called for more ambitious goals to cut greenhouse emissions. In her weekly internet podcast on Saturday, Angela Merkel also underscored the long-term importance of coal-fired power for Germany, a country that remains one of the globe's biggest economies and exporters. "It is remarkable that China ... has given a timeframe for reduction of 2030,"...
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California may be a leader on climate change, but it still has plenty of work to do
2015-11-28 12:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When Gov. Jerry Brown arrives in Paris next week for a major international conference on climate change, he will showcase one of the worlds most sweeping programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions. California has perhaps the most comprehensive cap-and-trade program in the world, setting a limit and a price for pollution from factories, utilities, and transportation fuels. The states 2030 goals of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40...
Protesters push leaders to avert climate catastrophe
2015-11-28 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Masses of people joined a worldwide wave of marches on Saturday demanding leaders craft a pact to avert a climate catastrophe when they gather in a still-shaken Paris. From Australia to New Zealand, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Japan, people rallied at the start of a weekend of popular protests urging world powers to seal a deal at the UN climate summit that officially opens in the French capital Monday. "Protect our common home," declared placards held aloft as thousands gathered in Melbourne,...
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