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Periled by climate change, Marshall Islands makes carbon pledge
2015-07-19 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Marshall Islands, a small island country at high risk of climate change-induced sea level rise, vowed Sunday to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third within a decade. In a pledge to be officially filed with the UN next week, the sparsely populated cluster of Pacific atolls becomes the first small island nation to submit a carbon-cutting pledge ahead of a year-end conference in Paris tasked with producing a world climate pact. It is also among the first developing country to commit to...
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Climate change fuels wildfires
2015-07-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: Wildfires are raging in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, and theyre on pace to be some of the worst in history. Host Steve Curwood talks with Nicky Sundt, former smoke-jumper, now a climate policy analyst at the World Wildlife Fund, about the causes of current unprecedented fire seasons and how a climate change feedback loop helps feed and reinforce these wildfires. Transcript CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston and PRI, this is Living on Earth. Im Steve Curwood. Alaska...
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California is a global leader in combating climate change, but it hasnt been enough
2015-07-19 03:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Daily News: Nearly a decade ago, California policymakers, facing a frightening future of shriveling snowpacks and rising seas, created the nations most aggressive program to combat global warming. The 2006 law mandated broad reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Now, as the deadline approaches, Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their efforts. They are crafting emissions-reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 that will be far more difficult to meet. One bill seeks to slash...
Passage California climate change bill could set global example
2015-07-19 02:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When Gov. Jerry Brown visits the Vatican this week for an international conference, he'll be carrying a resolution from state lawmakers supporting Pope Francis' recent encyclical on climate change. He's hoping the Legislature will send an even stronger message later this year by passing new environmental rules aimed at helping California slash greenhouse-gas emissions over the next few decades. Approval of the legislation, intended to enact goals outlined by the governor this year, would bolster...
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Climate Change as Grave a Threat as Nuclear War
2015-07-18 19:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The UK government says that climate change poses risks that demand to be treated as seriously as the threat of nuclear war. Scientists from the UK, US, India and China say in a report commissioned by the UK that deciding what to do about climate change depends on the value we put on human life, both now and in years to come. One of the lead authors of the report is Sir David King, formerly the UK governments chief scientist, who last month co-authored a report on the scale of investment that...
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