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White House Gets Behind Nuclear Power To Fight Climate Change
2015-11-12 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: The American Nuclear Society just wrapped up its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Since the theme was how nuclear energy is essential to address climate change, it was exciting that the meeting kicked off with a Nuclear Summit at the White House on Friday that highlighted that issue. In most international climate talks over the last 25 years, the United States has downplayed the fact that most of our low-carbon electricity generation is from nuclear power. You never hear that in most media discussions....
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U.N. climate deal must unlock private funding for forests: experts
2015-11-12 05:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new global deal to curb climate change due in Paris next month must "switch on" forest protection schemes by allowing the carbon credits they produce to help meet country pledges to cut planet-warming emissions, forest experts said. That would unlock funding from the private sector, which has so far contributed just one-tenth of the money provided to keep forests standing, said Gus Silva-Chávez of U.S.-based non-profit group Forest Trends which tracked finance flows in 13 countries. Over...
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Why are oil and gas companies calling for more action on climate change?
2015-11-12 03:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: This year many of us have increased our advocacy on this issue. And last month, companies responsible for a fifth of the world's oil and gas supply in the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) threw their support behind a new global agreement at the forthcoming UN talks in Paris. For oil and gas companies to take such a stance has been described as "unusual" -- and even "unprecedented". However, in fact, in BP we have publicly acknowledged the risk and have been working to address it since the...
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Activists Are Pissed About France's Plan to Tighten Its Border During Climate Summit
2015-11-12 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has announced that the country will reinstate border controls before and during the COP 21 climate change conference, which will be held in Paris from November 30 to December 11. The decision promises to play out over the next few weeks among human rights and environmental activists, who say the government's claims of national security threats are really an attempt to limit demonstrations. France is part of the Schengen Area, a "borderless" zone made...
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Student sues Government over climate targets
2015-11-12 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: Sarah Thomson wasn't happy with the targets the Government has set to combating climate change - so now she's taking it to court. The Waikato University law student, 24, doesn't consider herself a climate activist but felt "urgent action" was needed over climate change. "I guess I just saw something needed to be done and I felt like I couldn't stand by and watch the country pretty much just do nothing." Backed by a group of lawyers, she filed papers with the High Court this week, in a law suit...
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