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India opts for caution on climate change strategy
2015-10-04 16:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Livemint: The release of India's long-awaited INDC (Intended Nationally Determined Contribution) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on 2 October has obviously been timed to impart some noble Gandhian overtones to the unusually detailed, 40-page document. The INDC goes beyond the exercise of setting key targets for inclusion in the Outcome Agreement at the forthcoming Paris Climate Change Summit in December. It reads more like a sustainable development strategy, complete with a philosophical...
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Dominica urges global community to take action on climate change
2015-10-04 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Antigua Observer: Against the backdrop of her countrys recent destruction by Tropical Storm Erika, Dominica Foreign Affairs Minister Francine Baron has urged the international community take action on climate change. In preparing to address the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly Debate on Saturday, Baron said her delegation decided to highlight the challenges brought about by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the resulting changes in global climate. Climate change...
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A Big Boost for the Climate Summit
2015-10-04 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Indias announcement of a long-term plan to combat greenhouse gas emissions brings on board all the worlds major economies including big polluters like the United States, China, the European Union and Brazil with national pledges to address climate change. Indias pledge is among the least ambitious of the big emitters, but even so, with less than two months to go before a critical United Nations climate conference in Paris, it is an important development. In contrast to past efforts to reduce...
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Jamaica deeply concerned about Climate Change challenges
2015-10-03 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Antigua Observer: Jamaica has expressed deep concern about the challenge posed by Climate Change, saying it is an existential one for the populations of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Foreign Affairs Minister Arnold Nicholson told the 70thSession of the United Nations General Assembly Debate that the lives and livelihoods too often hang in the balance for SIDS nationals because of the threat of Climate Change. We, therefore, look toward the continued support of the international community for SIDS,...
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Climate change can alter the planet's shape
2015-10-03 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: As melting glaciers erode the land, global warming could alter the shape of the planet, a new study says. "Antarctica is warming up, and as it moves to temperatures above 0-degrees celsius, the glaciers are all going to start moving faster," said study lead author Michele Koppes, assistant professor at University of British Columbia. "We are already seeing that the ice sheets are starting to move faster and should become more erosive, digging deeper valleys and shedding more sediment into the oceans,"...
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