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Climate change blamed for severe drought hitting Vietnam coffee crops
2015-05-22 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The last time Nguyen Van Viet saw water in his well was almost four months ago. The 44-year-old has farmed coffee in central Vietnam for two decades and says thats never happened before. This is the worst drought Ive seen in over a decade, Viet, told the Guardian. Some people dont have enough water to drink. For Viet and millions of other coffee farmers, this season has been disastrous. A prolonged drought has affected all five provinces in Vietnams Central Highlands a region that...
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Shareholder Pressure Increasing Over Climate Change Risks
2015-05-22 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Energy companies are facing increased scrutiny over their carbon emissions as pension funds worth billions grow anxious about the risks posed by climate change. Philippe Desfosses, chief executive officer of ERAFP, a pension fund for French civil servants, warned of the risks posed by rising sea levels and warming temperatures at a business and climate conference in Paris that finishes Friday. There is a legal risk that is coming, Desfosses said. If there is a carbon risk for a business,...
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Climate Change: Some Companies Reject Business as Usual
2015-05-22 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: - When it comes to climate change, business as usual is simply "not an option". That was the view of Eldar Saetre, CEO of Norwegian multinational Statoil, as international industry leaders met in Paris for a two-day Business & Climate Summit, six months ahead of the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21 ) that will also be held in the French capital. Subtitled "Working together to build a better economy", the May 20-21 summit brought together some 2,000 representatives of some...
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Congress manufactures doubt and denial climate change hearing
2015-05-21 16:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US Congress periodically holds hearings on issues related to climate change. Because the subject has become a partisan one in America, they generally follow a predictable pattern Democrats invite science and policy expert witnesses who agree with the expert consensus on human-caused global warming and the need to address it, and Republicans invite witnesses who disagree. John Christy at the University of Alabama at Huntsville is one of the fewer than 3% of climate scientists who publishes research...
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Pope climate change aide urges business favor planet over profit
2015-05-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Pope Francis' top aide on climate change urged businesses on Wednesday not to let the pursuit of profit get in the way of protecting the planet. The remarks came as the Vatican is due to release a papal encyclical, or formal letter, on the issue. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who helped draft the encyclical, said the paper would be presented in the second half of June, two months before the pope is due to address the U.S. Congress and a United Nations meeting on sustainable development. "Our lives...
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