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World Bank unveils Climate Change Action Plan, to mobilise $25 bn in pvt financing
2016-04-08 03:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Express: The World Bank has announced its plan to help developing countries add 30 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy to the world's energy capacity and to mobilise $25 billion in private financing for clean energy by 2020. The World Bank has announced its plan to help developing countries add 30 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy to the world`s energy capacity and to mobilise $25 billion in private financing for clean energy by 2020. The Climate Change Action Plan, released by the Washington-based...
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To help curb climate change, stop wasting food - scientists
2016-04-07 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Reducing food waste around the world would help curb emissions of planet-warming gases, lessening some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas, scientists said on Thursday. Up to 14 percent of emissions from agriculture in 2050 could be avoided by managing food use and distribution better, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). "Agriculture is a major driver of climate change, accounting for more than 20 percent...
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Climate Change Causes Havoc in Seasons and Food Production
2016-04-07 11:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The consequences of global warming are quite evident this year as winter disappeared early and summer kicked in earlier than usual in a number of countries. The European summer began ten days earlier this April than four decades ago. This climatic shift has occurred between the 1960s and 2000s. The seasonal clock is now a chaos and there is a possibility of summer to begin 20 days earlier by the end of this century. Researchers said this climatic change is happening due to increasing carbon...
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India: Climate change buffer and keeper of ecology balance
2016-04-07 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: As long as the 21st-century man will continue to tamper with natural buffers like the Aravali hills, hotter summers (and warmer winters) will become a way of life. The Aravali bionetwork has been around for aeons. "They're much more ancient than the Himalayas, and they're uniquely important," says Amina Shervani, a Gurgaon-based entrepreneur and land-rights activist. "We are fortunate to have something as the Aravallis next door." These hills, she explains, created a system of lakes where run-off...
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ECO:nomics: Threat of Climate Change vs. Terrorism
2016-04-07 06:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the long term, climate change has more serious consequences than threats from terrorism. He speaks with WSJs Kim Strassel at the ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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