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India Drought 2015: Climate Change Biggest Threat India Economy, Modi Finance Aide Says
2015-11-02 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Climate change is threatening to derail Indias fast-growing economy, a top aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week. Erratic monsoon rain patterns have left crops parched, jeopardizing Indias nearly $370 billion agricultural sector and hundreds of millions of jobs. The No. 1 risk we face is global climate change, because we are still very dependent on the monsoon, Jayant Sinha, the countrys junior finance minister and a Harvard Business School graduate, told Bloomberg News. The...
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Pacific Leaders Get Blunt About Unfolding Calamity of Climate Change
2015-11-02 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At a summit in Fiji last week, the last major gathering of Pacific island nations before crunch UN climate talks in Paris next month, islanders thrashed out their collective plea to the world to help address the health impacts of climate change, particularly upon women, infants and adolescents. Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Fijis foreign minister, said the country was dealing with the re-emergence of climate-influenced diseases such as typhoid, dengue fever, leptospirosis and diarrhoeal illnesses. Last...
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China and France conclude bilateral Climate Agreement in advance of COP21
2015-11-02 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: French President Francois Hollande has met with Chinese Premier Xi Jingping in Beijing. Hollande has consistently made climate change a core concern of his bilateral and multilateral visits since formally taking up the COP21 Presidency. This meeting is timely given the build up to the G20, and Chinas role as G20 President in 2016 as well as one of the last set of bilateral between core emitters ahead of COP21. Greenpeace China Climate Policy Advisor, Li Shuo said:Exactly four weeks before world...
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Australian doctors call for Health Minister to attend Paris climate talks
2015-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The "increasingly unmanageable" threat of climate change on children's health has prompted an open letter from doctors around Australia to the government, calling for Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley to attend the United Nations Paris climate summit this December. In the letter, from independent organisation Doctors for the Environment Australia, leading doctors warn of the "health emergency" climate change presents for children, who have the least capacity to act. "More bushfires, floods...
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Central America seeks recognition vulnerability climate change
2015-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InterPress Service: For decades, the countries of Central America have borne the heavy impact of extreme climate phenomena like hurricanes and severe drought. Now, six of them are demanding that the entire planet recognise their climate vulnerability. An initiative that has emerged from civil society in Central America wants the new binding universal climate treaty to acknowledge that the region is especially vulnerable to climate change - a distinction currently given to small island developing states (SIDS) and...
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