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Canada's climate change agenda can be pushed forward by premiers, says lawyer
2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Canada has won the Fossil Award year after year for its inaction on climate change, but an environmental lawyer in B.C. believes provinces and cities can help Canada redeem itself as an environmental leader again. Especially since Canada's premiers have taken up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invitation to December's climate change summit in Paris. "This is going to be a major chat feast," said lawyer David Richard Boyd, also author of The Optimistic Environmentalist. "The real work will happen...
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Controversial climate fund scrambles to fund its first projects
2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The main fund to help the world's poorest cope with climate change cleared an obstacle last week after an all-night negotiating session in Zambia settled on the first projects to receive $363 million. Projects include campaigns to rebuild Peruvian wetlands, provide off-grid solar in East Africa and expand Malawi's extreme weather warning systems. The Green Climate Fund's job is to eventually deliver tens of billions of dollars promised to the poor nations, and is key to achieving a global agreement...
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Peabody strikes deal New York attorney general climate risk filings
2015-11-12 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Coal giant Peabody Energy has agreed to change the way it reports the risks posed to investors by climate change, ending an eight-year investigation by the New York attorney general. Peabody and attorney general Eric Schneiderman confirmed they had reached an agreement on Monday, after the company was accused of issuing misleading statements on the risks it could face from tightening climate change laws. Previously, Peabody has argued that it was unable to predict the impacts of future policy...
Breeding flexibility helps migratory songbirds adjust to climate warming
2015-11-12 13:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurekAlert: Phenological mismatches, or a mistiming between creatures and the prey and plants they eat, is one of the biggest known impacts of climate change on ecological systems. But a Dartmouth-led study finds that one common migratory songbird has a natural flexibility in its breeding time that has helped stave off mismatches, at least for now. The results suggest this flexibility provides a buffer against climate warming for the black-throated blue warbler in eastern North America and potentially for...
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California Climate and Health, Part I: Drought Stirs Up Trouble for States Air Quality
2015-11-12 13:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Healthline: Part 1 of : California Climate and Health, Part I: Drought Stirs Up Trouble for States Air Quality The policies that made California a model of how big, developed economies can thrive while safeguarding the environment did not originate in some statewide sense of kumbaya. They were a desperate response to serious air quality problems in Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and Fresno. Bad air is a serious drag on public health, driving up rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, asthma, and death....
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