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Climate Change Calif Passes a Tipping Point
2015-10-01 15:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: With Californians crossing their fingers in hopes of a super El Nio to help end the state's historic drought, California's water agency just delivered some startling news: for the first time in 120 years of record keeping, the winter average minimum temperature in the Sierra Nevada was above freezing. And across the state, the last 12 months were the warmest on record. This explains why the Sierra Nevada snow pack that provides nearly 30% of the state's water stood at its lowest level in at least...
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Govt climate pledges, if implemented, would warm world by 2.7°C
2015-10-01 14:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The combination of Government climate action plans, if implemented, would bring global warming down to 2.7°C, according to an analysis released today by the Climate Action Tracker (CAT). On the day of the October 1 UN deadline for governments to submit their emission reduction targets, or Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for 2025 and 2030, the CATs estimate of their impact on warming shows that, if fully implemented, they would bring warming down to 2.7°C an improvement...
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Food Giants Align For Climate Action
2015-10-01 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A Republican, a Democrat and a bunch of major food corporations put their support behind meaningful action on climate change Thursday. Representatives from Mars, General Mills, Unilever, Ben & Jerry's and Nestle appeared at an event on Capitol Hill calling for strong government action on climate. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) hosted the event with the sustainable business group Ceres. Whitehouse has been a major advocate for climate action in Congress, giving...
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National climate pledges are flooding in now for the hard part
2015-10-01 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Its national climate pledge deadline day. Contributions are flooding in towards a global pact to be struck in Paris this December. They follow hot on the heels of New York Climate Week, another US-China agreement and world leaders agreeing on key elements of a deal. After a frenetic couple of weeks, where does international cooperation on global warming stand? Strong participation Of the 195 countries that need to reach agreement in Paris, more than two thirds had put forward their pledges...
Food, beverage industry CEOs call for meaningful deal on climate change at UN conference
2015-10-01 02:48:42| Beverages - Topix.net
The CEOs of several major food and beverage companies are calling on world leaders to push for a meaningful agreement at the United Nation's conference on climate change later this year in Paris. The 10 companies, including cereal maker General Mills and candy maker Mars Inc., will run an open letter as a full-page ad in the Financial Times and Washington Post on Thursday.
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