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Climate change, air pollution may increase risk of malnutrition
2014-07-29 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The world will need 50 percent more food by 2050 due to both an increasing population and a shift toward a more Westernized diet in developing countries. But as our need for food rises, our ability to produce that food may be lowered by climate and air quality changes, according a to a study just published in Nature Climate Change. Researchers from MIT and Colorado State University found that if everything else stays as it is today, by 2050 global warming may reduce world crop yields by about 10...
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White House Report Urges Climate Change Action, Projects Rising Cost
2014-07-29 20:10:09| ENR.com: Headline News
A new report from the White House's Council of Economic Advisers projects an increase in the cost to mitigate climate change if no action is taken.
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White House climate change report: Act now, or pay later
2014-07-29 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: The longer the world waits to act on climate change, the more costly it will be to rein in the environmental impacts of releasing heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. That's the conclusion of a White House report on climate change released Tuesday. It comes on the same day the EPA begins public hearings on controversial power plant regulations that critics say will raise energy costs and do little to curb global warming. The timing of the Obama administration's report is not a coincidence....
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On climate change, Disney is no Mickey-Mouse operation
2014-07-29 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When the Walt Disney Company reached out to Rainforest Action Network for help in crafting a new sustainable paper sourcing policy in 2012, the nonprofit was all ears. As the world's largest publisher of children's books and magazines, with more than 700m products sold each year, Disneys paper sourcing influences the operations of 25,000 factories in more than 100 countries. But after 18 months of working closely with the company, some of Rainforest Action Network's officials have grown frustrated...
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Delay Action on Climate Change by 10 Years and Costs Rocket 40%: Report
2014-07-29 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: A new report estimates the cost of mitigating the effects of climate change could rise by as much as 40% if action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is delayed 10 years -- immediately outweighing any potential savings of a delay. The White House`s Council of Economic Advisers, U.S. President Barack Obama`s source for advice on economic policy, compared over 100 actions on climate change laid out in 16 studies to extract the average cost of delayed efforts. Released Tuesday, the findings suggests...
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