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Missoula real estate agents study effects of climate change on homebuyers, neighborhoods
2015-10-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Missoulian: From catastrophic wildfires to prolonged smoke exposure to flood potential to drought forecasts, climate change has massive implications for the real estate industry and for potential homebuyers. To understand these issues, more than 100 Missoula-area real estate agents attended a seminar Thursday on the effects of climate change on their industry. The event was hosted by the Missoula Organization of Realtors and the presenter was Steve Thompson, president of Climate Realty LLC, a company that...
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Air board targets cuts to climate pollutants like methane, black carbon
2015-10-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: California launched its next attack on the climate front yesterday with a proposal on how to cut short-lived climate pollutants like black carbon, methane and refrigerator gases. In a draft strategy, the Air Resources Board (ARB) said it would seek a number of changes to pare the pollutants, part of its effort to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius. Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) remain in the atmosphere for a shorter period of time than carbon dioxide and other...
India pledges clean-energy push in UN climate submission
2015-10-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: India, the worlds third-biggest polluter, pledged to slow the rise of greenhouse gases produced by its growing economy and to rapidly build up clean-energy sources, becoming the last major country to submit its plan for tackling global warming emissions. In a plan filed to the United Nations Thursday, India said it would reduce its emissions intensity -- the amount of pollution released for each unit of economic growth -- by 33 percent to 35 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The country also...
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India's pledge clears a significant hurdle towards a climate deal in Paris
2015-10-02 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With Indias plan for curbing carbon emissions now in, most of the major developing economies have responded to the UNs requests for the commitments on climate change that will form the keystone of an agreement to be signed in Paris this December. Those commitments to make absolute cuts in future emissions levels, in the case of developed countries; to curb future emissions growth, in the case of less industrialised nations will not add up to the cuts that scientists say are needed to avoid...
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146 Countries Covering 87% Global Emissions Submit Climate Plans Ahead of Paris
2015-10-02 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A total of 146 countries, representing almost 87 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, have submitted their intended national climate action plans to the United Nations. This means that so far more than 75 percent of all member countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have responded. This includes all developed countries under the convention and 104 developing countries or almost 70 percent of UNFCCC developing member states. Unprecedented preparation...
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