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Cities must take lead role in tackling climate change, says Mexico City mayor
2015-11-12 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Once notorious for air pollution, Mexico Citys ability to clean its skies has shown it can also be a leader in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, according to the citys mayor, Miguel Angel Mancera. Speaking at the signing of a new pledge to commit the equivalent of 10% of the citys discretionary budget to defined resilience goals many of which are environment-related Mancera stressed the role that megacities will have to play in tackling global warming. Cities are drivers for...
Climate change, more driving time, less fishing time
2015-11-12 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangor Daily News: Only an appreciation of nature as a collection of specific threatened habitats, rather than as an abstract thing that is dying, can avert a complete denaturing of the world. This observation by writer Jonathan Franzen nicely captures the challenge of understanding climate changes impacts on nature. As Franzen also notes, climate change is so big that its everybodys -- and nobodys -- problem. To initiate change, we need to understand its impacts on a human scale. In an effort to communicate...
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John F. Kerry: Climate Change Also Affects U.S. National Security
2015-11-12 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry was at Norfolk's Old Dominion University to talk about climate change, saying it is also a potential threat to national security. Kerry shared that as a former member of the Navy, he was deployed in Southeast Asia, stationed in Vietnam specifically during his second tour. He was assigned as a patrol boat skipper and that brought him to the waterways of the Mekong Delta. He wasn't in the country under complicated circumstances but he could never forget how...
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Strong climate deal in Paris an "absolute necessity," top officials say
2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Observer: Top officials have stressed the "absolute necessity" of reaching a strong climate change deal at the upcoming 21st Conference of Parties (COP) summit in Paris starting Nov. 30. During the "Pre-COP" ministerial meeting in Paris that concluded Nov. 10, COP 21 president Laurent Fabius said one of the major 'progresses' reached included the more precise setting of a 2°C limit on global warming targeted ideally at 1.5°C, also agreeing upon a 'low carbon' notion. Fabius also said a successful Paris...
Paris climate deal will not be legally binding treaty
2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/79daf872-8894-11e5-90de-f44762bf9896.html#ixzz3rIPQdxeT John Kerry, US secretary of state, has warned that Decembers Paris climate change talks will not deliver a treaty that legally requires countries to cut their carbon...
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