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Climate change sparks tension in India tea gardens
2015-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Usha Ghatowar smiles wryly when asked about the pay she earns picking leaves at a colonial-era tea garden in Assam. "Do you think 3,000 rupees are enough when your monthly expenses can be double that?" she mumbles, as she puts on her "jaapi" hat of woven bamboo and palm leaves and takes a sip of tea from a steel mug. As the women workers around Ghatowar nod in agreement the heavens open - it has started raining heavily in recent days after three largely dry months. Unrest is brewing among...
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No legally binding climate change agreement under UNFCCC: India
2015-05-05 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Firstpost: India not "legally" bound under United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and it has been "coordinating" with like minded countries for protecting its own interest in the climate change negotiating fora, government said on Tuesday. "There is no legally binding commitment for India under UNFCCC till date. India has been actively engaged in the multilateral negotiations under the UNFCCC. "The national action plan on climate change (NAPCC) was released in June 2008 to outline...
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White House Reboots Draft Guidance on Evaluating Climate Change Impacts
2015-05-05 03:47:30| Waste Management - Topix.net
The White House Council on Environmental Quality has restarted the process for formal advice on how best to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change under the National Environmental Policy Act . More than four years after issuing its first draft guidance on the same subject, CEQ published its Revised Draft Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change in NEPA Reviews on December 24, 2014.
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World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
2015-05-04 06:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be "lost for ever", according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure. Anything built from now on that produces carbon will do so for decades, and this "lock-in" effect will be the single factor most...
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Climate change threatens major building projects, says Chinese expert
2015-05-04 05:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change threatens some of Chinas most important infrastructure projects, Chinas top meteorologist has warned, and added that its rate of warming was higher than the global average. Zheng Guoguang, head of Chinas meteorological administration, told Mondays issue of state newspaper the Study Times that the increase in recent weather disasters such as floods, typhoons, droughts and heat waves had a big connection to climate change. Such catastrophes were a threat to big schemes such...
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