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Global Investments in Climate Change on the Rise
2015-11-27 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global investment in activities to reduce planet-warming emissions and vulnerability to climate change grew 18 percent to $391 billion in 2014, as private backing for renewable energy technologies surged, researchers said. More money than ever before was channeled into action to curb climate change and its impacts, after funding leveled off in 2012 and declined in 2013, according to an annual report from the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), an advisory group. "Two weeks out from the international...
Climate Change Will Make Bad Borrowers of Govts, S&P Says
2015-11-27 05:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Thailands credit rating downgraded by two levels. Dominican Republic lowered one grade. These are not real news headlines yet, but could be, according to scenarios outlined by Standard & Poors. The ratings company has concluded after a study that if the damage to the environment continues unabated, there is no way global economic activity, trade or national budgets will stay unaffected. In other words, climate change will cause credit-rating downgrades. Using data from reinsurance company...
Cities vs. climate change: How Vancouver aims to lead the fight
2015-11-27 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: With the Paris climate change summit just days away, dozens of mayors from around the world are gearing up to represent their municipalities at the global roundtable. The meeting is largely considered the last chance for world leaders to agree on a set of concrete terms to cap global warming at 2 C above pre-industrial levels. After that, experts fear, the consequences will be irreversible. Among the leaders will be Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who has said he wants his city to be the...
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Pope: 'Catastrophic' climate if Paris UN talks fail
2015-11-27 03:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Pope Francis warned of a "catastrophic" outcome if vested interests block a binding agreement to tackle climate change at UN talks in Paris next week. "In a few days, an important meeting on climate change will be held in Paris... It would be sad - and I dare say even catastrophic - were particular interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and projects," the pontiff said on Thursday. The 78-year-old pope has taken on a...
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After Paris attacks, increased resolve for UN climate talks
2015-11-27 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Still gripped by shock and grief, Paris will play host to a long-awaited U.N. climate conference under tragic circumstances that none could have foreseen. But delegates to the two-week talks starting Monday insist they won't let the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people in the French capital distract them from the task at hand: crafting a landmark deal to fight global warming. If anything, some say, the bloodshed could make countries more determined to reach a deal to address a problem that's...
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