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20 Nations Vulnerable to Climate Change Form an Action Coalition
2015-10-09 10:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Representatives from 20 nations particularly subject to the consequences of climate change have gathered in Lima, the capital of Peru, to establish a coalition to fight global warming. The group, which will call itself the Vulnerable 20 (V-20), comprises low- and middle-income nations from Central America, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania, Reuters reported. They range from larger states with growing economies like Vietnam to tiny island nations like Vanuatu. The common thread...
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Climate change behind mysterious kidney disease: Study
2015-10-09 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: A mysterious kidney disease that has killed over 20,000 people in Central America since 2002, and now spreading to other countries including India, may be caused by chronic, severe dehydration linked to global climate change, says a new study. "This could be the first epidemic directly caused by global warming," said one of the researchers Richard Johnson, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the US. So far, the manual labourers on sugar cane plantations...
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Gore lauds Cuomo for joining climate change pact
2015-10-09 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: In his second climate speech in a week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stood with former Vice President Al Gore to announce New York will participate in a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius. "We know what needs to be done, we just need the political will to do it," Cuomo told a standing-room only crowd at Columbia's Lerner Auditorium. "We are well underway." Cuomo signed the "Under 2 MOU" -- a pact of states, cities and provinces...
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Twenty nation vulnerable climate change form action group
2015-10-08 23:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Twenty of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, from the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, formed a new financial group on Thursday to press for tougher action to curb global warming. Draft documents for a meeting of finance ministers in Lima, Peru and seen by Reuters, said the 20 represented 700 million people in low- and middle-income nations that were arid, landlocked, mountainous or vulnerable to rising sea levels. The Vulnerable 20 (V20) group's...
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Exxon business ambition collided with climate change under a distant sea
2015-10-08 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In 1980, as Exxon Corp. set out to develop one of the world's largest deposits of natural gas, it found itself facing an unfamiliar risk: the project would emit immense amounts of carbon dioxide, adding to the looming threat of climate change. The problem cropped up shortly after Exxon signed a contract with the Indonesian state oil company to exploit the Natuna gas field in the South China Seabig enough to supply the blossoming markets of Japan, Taiwan and Korea with liquefied natural gas into...
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