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Australia and climate change: When voting fails, divest
2014-10-30 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asian Correspondent: Last weeks episode of Real Time With Bill Maher featured an interview with Harvard University Student and activist Chloe Maxmin on the power of student-led divestment from the fossil fuel industry. Divestment is not simply giving up on voting, but rather using another tool in the array of options for democratic influence on what is a) happening to our planet and b) what our own money is being used for. The goals of Divest Harvard are for the number one university in the world to stop any further...
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Climate change a 'threat multiplier' for farming-dependent nations: Report
2014-10-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change and food insecurity are "threat multipliers", and 32 countries dependent on farming face an "extreme risk" of conflict or civil unrest in the next 30 years, a global analytics firm said on Wednesday. Food shortages and rising prices have the potential to worsen political, ethnic, class and religious tensions, the risk advisory firm Maplecroft reported in its annual "Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas (CCERA)". Analysts noted that several nations' military leaders are ahead...
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Chuck Hagel: We Should Worry About Climate Change Like We Worry About ISIS
2014-10-30 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The Islamic State may be the most immediate challenge facing the Defense Department, but Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that one of the biggest long-term security threats to the U.S. isn't a terrorist group. It's climate change. "From my perspective, within the portfolio that I have responsibility for -- security of this country -- climate change presents security issues for us," Hagel said during remarks at the Washington Ideas Forum. "This is critically important that we pay attention to...
Climate Change Concerns Push Chile to Forefront of Carbon Tax Movement
2014-10-29 13:07:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: These are rough times for carbon taxes, aimed at mitigating climate change. Australia recently repealed its carbon tax. South Korea delayed a carbon-based tax on vehicle emissions. South Africa put off a planned carbon tax until 2016. And yet, for environmentalists, a sliver of hope exists in the shape of Chile, one of Latin Americas fastest-growing economies, which last month approved the first carbon tax in South America. The measure, due to take effect in 2018, was part of a broad overhaul of...
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Climate Change: IPCC Warns of Species Extinction and Food Insecurity
2014-10-29 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: A draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Synthesis report warns of "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people, species and 27 ecosystems," unless action is taken, and taken soon. To keep the temperature from rising above the two degrees threshold, net global emissions of carbon must drop 40-70% by 2050, hitting zero by the end of the century. This will mean limiting carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere to 450 parts per million (ppm) by 2100, according to...
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