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Norway Best Prepared Nation For Climate Change, Global Index Shows
2014-11-05 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Norway is the best prepared country for climate change, and has been so for almost 20 years, according to rankings compiled by the University of Notre Dame. New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark rounded out the top five, while Chad, Burundi, Eritrea, Central African Republic, and Congo make up the bottom of the Global Adaptation Index. The rankings highlight the disparities between the worlds relatively wealthy, developed nations and its developing economies when it comes to dealing with climate...
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Climate change supporters suffer losses
2014-11-05 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Despite millions spent to make climate change a wedge issue during the midterms, environmentally friendly candidates didnt fare well on Election Day. Green groups funneled an unprecedented amount of money into top Senate races that determined control of the upper chamber but fell short. The nations top environmental groups including the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and billionaire Tom Steyers NextGen Climate...
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India: Narendra Modi government reconstitutes climate change panel, no member from industry
2014-11-05 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Barely three weeks before crucial negotiations in Lima, the government has reconstituted the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, reducing its size and dropping members, including sole industry representative Ratan Tata and Centre for Science and Environment director general Sunita Narain. The 18-member council headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will, like its predecessor panel, focus on national action for assessment, adaptation and mitigation of climate change. ET had first reported...
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Climate change is hurting poor countries right now. Why won't rich countries act?
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: All politics is local, Tip ONeill, the legendary Capitol Hill pol, used to say. He wasnt talking about the politics of climate change, but he might as well have been. Powerful governments around the world have failed to act in a significant way to fight climate change, and its pretty clear why: Their constituents dont feel in any real sense that climate change is affecting them locally. This is the fundamental inconvenient truth that advocates of tougher climate action face, and its underscored...
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Climate change: no quick fix for global warming 'without cutting down carbon emissions'
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Short-term fixing of the global climate will not help, says a new interdisciplinary study by showing how long-term emissions of carbon dioxide and short-lived climate pollutants like methane and sulphur dioxide are related. Soot particles, methane and fluorocarbons originating from fossil fuels, coal mines, cows and diesel engines are called short-lived climate forcers (SLCF) due to their brief lifetime of a few days to a decade. On the other hand carbon dioxide lasts thousands of years in...
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