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IEA outlines climate challenge in cheap fossil fuel world
2015-11-10 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Governments should ban inefficient coal power plants, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol said on Tuesday. They also need to boost support for renewables, regulate to improve energy efficiency and crack down on methane leaks from oil and gas production. Those were Birol`s top four recommendations to close the gap between an international goal to limit global warming to 2C and inadequate voluntary national efforts. "The IEA is ready to help the [UN climate body] and governments...
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Opinion: Political Climate Shifting Against The Oil And Gas Industry
2015-11-10 12:55:52| Green Car Congress
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Las Vegas Holds Key To Abrupt Climate Change
2015-11-10 05:23:42| pollutiononline Home Page
According to new U.S. Geological Survey research published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, springs and marshes in the desert outside Las Vegas expanded and contracted dramatically in response to past episodes of abrupt climate change, even disappearing altogether for centuries at a time when conditions became too warm.
New light shed on the challenge of climate negotiations
2015-11-09 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: After over two decades of climate negotiation meetings, it is clear that agreeing on reduction of emissions poses a great challenge. Researchers are attempting to gain better theoretical understanding of the mechanisms that can impact the results of the negotiations. New research from Chalmers indicates that it might be more difficult to reach agreement than previous theoretical models have shown, but it also shows that there are ways to move forward. The research was published in the journal Nature...
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1,000 Youth Take to Streets Demanding Climate Justice
2015-11-09 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: One year out from the presidential election, nearly a thousand youth from across the country took to the streets of Washington, DC to demand that candidates and elected officials adopt an agenda that delivers racial, immigration and climate justice. Whose streets? Our streets! #OurGenerationOurChoice marching to the White House pic.twitter.com/TfaCloiV0a -- Jason Kowalski (@JasonK350) November 9, 2015 College students and young people from across the country assembled early Monday morning...
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