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Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops
2015-11-09 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A comprehensive new study commissioned by Brazils government predicts severe drought and crop failures due to climate change by 2040. Brazil now gets 78% of its electricity from hydropower, but decreased rainfall could cut river flows by 38 to 57% to the nations four biggest existing hydropower plants, sharply decreasing energy generation. Reduced water flows to proposed dams in the Tapajós basin, as well as to the gigantic, under construction Belo Monte dam, could make hydroelectric power...
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How France is steering the world to a climate deal
2015-11-09 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: We needed to think about not only an agreement, but an alliance. Pascal Canfin is weeks away from seeing if a landmark conference he helped devise will go the distance. To pull off a new global warming accord, France`s development minister from 2012-14 knew the UN`s climate change body alone was too abstract to inspire a mass campaign. City mayors, CEOs and central bankers were needed to rouse the groundswell of climate action that now buoys talks, Canfin tells Climate Home in a hotel...
Efforts to combat climate change rise in China as public awareness drops
2015-11-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As Chinese officials are gearing up for the next round of international climate change negotiations in Paris next month, a new survey has found fewer people in the country are concerned about global warming. The survey, issued yesterday by Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Pew Research Center, shows that 18 percent of respondents in China say climate change is a "very serious problem," much lower than the global average of 54 percent. Similarly, while 40 percent of people around the world are...
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Canada's sway at Paris climate talks will be modest, despite Trudeau's new vigor
2015-11-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The new Canadian government may be more eager than its predecessor to influence the outcome of pivotal climate talks later this month, but the timing isn't working in its favour. Just three weeks remain before world leaders gather in the French capital to try to hammer out the latest global agreement on cutting emissions. And while a more willing Canadian government is now coming to the table, the influence it wields in building consensus in such a short time will be modest. More significantly...
Latest climate polls: More knowledge but urgency lags
2015-11-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: As the final weeks tick down to international climate treaty talks in Paris, social scientists are releasing a bevy of new data demonstrating the breadth and diversity of support for action on global warming. Four new climate polls were released last week alone. They looked at global warming opinions in 40 countries, the impact of Pope Francis' recent climate campaign and Americans'--and in one case, specifically African-Americans'--views on climate change, the Clean Power Plan and global treaty...
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