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Australia must help Pacific islands at Paris climate summit, says PNG leader
2015-11-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Papua New Guineas prime minister Peter ONeill has urged Australia to be an advocate for the Pacific in pushing for a strong agreement at this months worldwide climate change talks in Paris. The governments of more than 190 nations will meet at COP21 in the French capital, beginning on 30 November, to discuss a new global climate accord. ONeill and other Pacific leaders whose countries are already experiencing the impacts of climate change are preparing to vigorously prosecute their...
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Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
2015-11-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In a few weeks, world leaders will gather in Paris in an attempt to reach a deal that will have critical implications for our species. At the COP21 climate talks, they will try to find a formula for reducing the worlds carbon emissions and give humanity an evens chance of holding global warming to a 2C rise above pre-industrial levels. Past efforts to negotiate such deals have been riddled with frustration and failures, in particular the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, which ended in disarray....
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Climate change claims a new victim: The slow demise of Califonia's golden trout
2015-11-02 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Driving through the Owens Valley, a scenic 75-mile-long, U-shaped cul-de-sac on the east side of the Sierras, confirmed extremely dry conditions. Californias prolonged drought wasnt just visible in the low stream flows, charred hillsides and snowless Sierra Nevada Mountains, but I could hear it. In the small town of Lone Pine, I overheard a man say: I guess we wont get to shower until next winter. The water situation for local fish isnt much better. For my journey a days drive followed...
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France, China agree on climate change checks
2015-11-02 01:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: China and France agreed Monday that an international deal to tackle climate change to be negotiated in Paris should include checks on compliance, in what visiting French President Francois Hollande called a "historic" step forward. The Paris conference will be attended by at least 80 world leaders including China's President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama. It seeks to unite all the world's nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change, with the goal of capping warming at...
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Who Will Pay for Climate Change?
2015-11-01 21:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: Perhaps the most unexpected development in the fight against climate change is that large finance and insurance companies have taken a leadership role. In this excerpt from "Who Will Pay for Climate Change?"--a feature in the December issue of the New Republic--Jeffrey Ball explains that companies now see global warming as both a threat and a financial opportunity. Large corporations always have been seen as the villains of the environmental movement--and with good reason. It was corporations...
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