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Ban Enlisting Business on Climate Change May Win UN Pact
2014-09-18 21:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons strategy to forge a global climate agreement by 2015 will enter a new phase next week when more than 120 world leaders meet in New York to discuss greenhouse gas cuts. Having spent his eight years in office working toward a global consensus on the threat of climate change, Ban is turning up pressure for an international agreement to reduce emissions blamed for global warming. On Sept. 23, Ban will host more than 120 heads of state and government at...
How Climate Change Exacerbates Spread of Disease, Including Ebola
2014-09-18 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Institute: The accelerating ebola epidemic in West Africa, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has called unprecedented, has so far killed more than half the 3,069 people who contracted the disease in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. The WHO fears it could eventually affect 20,000 people. Ebola can live in animals for years without making them sick; it is transmitted to humans through contact with an infected animal. Once in a human, the disease is spread by direct contact with the bodily...
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Utilities and Climate Change Hysteria Redux
2014-09-18 18:31:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Last month I wrote a provocative piece, "Climate Change Hysteria: Utilities Will Benefit," and sent it out to our Grid Optimization panel of experts. So enjoy these viewpoints from the United States and Europe, from academia and utilities. I certainly did. read more
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Cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests
2014-09-18 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Since 2008, governments have invested $1.64 billion in funds to kick-start REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, the global effort to conserve the world's forests in order to better mitigate climate change. However, a new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) finds that same amount of money could have secured the legal rights of indigenous and local people to 450 million hectares of forest, an area 40 percent larger than India. "Securing the rights of indigenous...
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More Land, Fewer Harvests in Climate Change Impact Study
2014-09-18 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Most of the Earth’s agricultural land resources are already under cultivation. Climate change poses a huge challenge to global agriculture, but a new study by geographers at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, shows that some regions could benefit from it.
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