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Can Paris climate talks overcome the India challenge?
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: If any single country embodies the challenge of reaching an agreement at the huge United Nations climate conference that begins in Paris on Monday, it is India. India is already the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and it plans a massive increase, proposing to treble CO2 emissions within the next 15 years. What is more, unlike virtually every other country attending the Paris conference - including the two biggest polluters, the US and China - India has not set a future cap...
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National flood program needed because of climate change, Edmonton audience hears
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: The head of the Insurance Bureau of Canada called Thursday for governments and industry to create a national flood program to deal with the growing costs of destruction from weather events spurred by climate change. There is tremendous value in a more collaborative approach between the private sector and different levels of government to solve a problem that has been growing in frequency and severity, said Don Forgeron, president and CEO of the national insurance industry association, before...
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Pope Francis: Catastrophic Climate if Paris Talks Fail
2015-11-27 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pope Francis warned on Wednesday that the world is facing a "grave environmental crisis" and spoke of the intersection between social justice and the protection of nature. The pontiff`s comments, made in the Kenyan capital at the start of his first visit to the continent, come just days ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris, where global delegates will hammer out an agreement to curb climate change. "The grave environmental crisis facing our world demands an ever greater sensitivity to the...
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For the kids suing over climate change, things are going well so far
2015-11-27 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When the young people working with Our Childrens Trust talk about their lawsuits to compel governments to act on climate change, they like to use a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. This month, it looks like these young activists have made it to step three: On Nov. 12, three fossil-fuel lobby groups asked a judge to let them join the federal case as codefendants against the 21 children (and a climate scientist)...
Worldwide Support For an Ambitious Climate Change Deal Is Faltering, New Poll Says
2015-11-27 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: A new poll released ahead of the U.N.-led climate change conference in Paris says that support around the world for an ambitious global climate-change deal has slipped in recent years. Only four of the 20 countries surveyed displayed majority support for setting lofty targets for the upcoming conference, according to the BBC. Less than half of the people surveyed considered climate change a "very serious" issue, according to the GlobeScan research group, the BBC reports. In 2009, the same...
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