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'US to cooperate with India in dealing climate change'
2015-10-10 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: The US has said it welcomes any contributions by India in dealing with the problems of climate change and looks forward to cooperate with the country in this regard. "Any contributions by India towards helping us deal with the problems of climate change and clean energy initiatives are welcome and we would look forward to working in close cooperation to achieve those goals," state department spokesman John Kirby said on Friday. India has pledged to curb its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 35...
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World Bank pledges extra $29bn to poorer nations for climate change fight
2015-10-10 07:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The World Bank has pledged to boost by up to $29bn the financial assistance pledged to poorer nations to cope with climate change, bringing closer the possibility of reaching a target of $100bn a year by 2020. Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank Group, said it could boost funding by a third, from 21% to 28%, in response to client demand. He spoke at a meeting of the World Bank and the IMF in Lima, Peru. As we move closer to Paris countries have identified trillions of dollars of climate-related...
Development banks pledge $15 bln in new climate funds: officials
2015-10-10 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Development banks including the World Bank have pledged an additional $15 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change, taking the world closer to the clutch target of $100 billion, officials said Friday. Just two months before key UN climate talks in Paris, world leaders are scrambling to reach the magic number of $100 billion in funding to combat global warming and help vulnerable nations cope with the impact of climate change. The figure, agreed in previous rounds of talks, is seen as...
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Canada: Party leaders avoiding inconvenient truths about climate change
2015-10-09 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gazette: Canadas per capita greenhouse gas emissions are among the highest in the world. Our national emissions have been increasing steadily, with the exception of the global recession from 2008 to 2010. Absent significant policy change, Canadas emissions are projected to continue to rise. Against that backdrop, voters are undoubtedly encouraged by the ambitious targets and proposals for regulatory or carbon pricing policies that have been advanced in this election campaign. Yet despite that debate, the...
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Scientists predict drier Horn of Africa as climate warms
2015-10-09 20:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Horn of Africa is becoming drier in step with global warming, researchers said on Friday, contradicting some climate models predicting rainier weather patterns in a region that has suffered frequent food crises linked to drought. A new study using a sediment core extracted from the Gulf of Aden found the East African region covering Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia has dried at an unusually fast rate over the past century. Lead author Jessica Tierney, an associate professor at the University...
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