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Climate change: global pressure will make Australia do more, says Cameron
2014-12-17 05:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global pressure will force Australia to do more on climate change, Britains prime minister, David Cameron, has predicted. Cameron told a committee of British MPs in London he sensed the Australian government recognised it did not want to be the international back marker on the issue. Look, its a sovereign country. It has to make its own decisions. There has obviously been a very big debate in Australia about carbon taxes and prices and all the rest of it, Cameron said as he gave evidence...
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Climate change could leave cities more in the dark
2014-12-15 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Cities like Miami are all too familiar with hurricane-related power outages. But a Johns Hopkins University analysis finds climate change will give other major metro areas a lot to worry about in future storms. Johns Hopkins engineers created a computer model to predict the increasing vulnerability to hurricanes of power grids in major cities on or relatively near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. They factored historic hurricane information in with plausible scenarios for future storm behavior, given...
UN climate change deal in Peru attacked environmental activists weak ineffectual
2014-12-14 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The UN climate deal agreed between nearly 200 countries in the early hours of Sunday morning was welcomed by politicians but environmentalists and climate activists denounced it as both weak and ineffectual. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks in Lima, Peru to overrun by more than a day before a compromise was finally struck. For the first time, developing and developed nations have all signed up to publishing their national plans for curbing carbon dioxide emissions,...
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UN agrees way forward climate change but path is unclear
2014-12-14 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments took a step back from chaos in the climate change discussions in Lima and found a way forward on Sunday, albeit with some fudges and compromises, giving themselves just 12 months to finalise a crucial international agreement to avoid dangerous levels of global warming. Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Perus environment minister, who had skilfully presided over more than two weeks of fraught negotiations, announced that a deal had been struck by more than 190 countries. The five pages of text,...
Climate change deal agreed at UN negotiations in Peru
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: United Nations member states have agreed an agreement on tackling climate change at negotiations in Peru, that ran days longer than scheduled. The deal will see each country set a target to reduce carbon emissions by next year. It also significantly departs from one of the core principles of recent international climate change negotiations -- that rich countries should carry the burden of emissions reduction, according to the Guardian. Environmental groups criticized the agreement as weak and...
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