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TTIP leak rebuts EU pledge to tackle climate change, say green activists
2016-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: The European Union's proposal for a chapter on energy and raw materials in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement was leaked on Monday, just as the fourteenth round of talks between the EU and US got underway in Brussels. However, the EU's plans have been criticised by the European wing of Friends of the Earth. Its economic justice programme coordinator Paul de Clerck said: "The EU's leaked proposal on TTIP and energy is in complete contradiction with Europe's commitments...
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Climate change blamed for huge mangrove die-off
2016-07-11 13:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Aljazeera: Thousands of hectares of important ecosystem have been wiped out in Northern Australia. Climate change has triggered a massive die-off of mangroves along the northern coast of Australia, according to scientists at the country's James Cook University. Professor Norm Duke, who is also the spokesman for the Australian Mangrove and Saltmarsh Network, said in a statement on the university's website that the scale and magnitude of the loss appeared "unprecedented and deeply concerning". Mangrove...
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Climate change cost for fossil fuel industry: $33 trillion
2016-07-11 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fuel Fix: The fossil fuel industry risks losing $33 trillion in revenue over the next 25 years as global warming may drive companies to leave oil, natural gas and coal in the ground, according to a Barclays Plc energy analyst. Government regulations and other efforts to cut carbon emissions will inevitably slash demand for fossil fuels, jeopardizing traditional energy producers, Mark Lewis, Barclayss head of European utilities equity research, said Monday during a panel discussion in New York on financial...
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Climate change will cause 2,50,000 deaths by 2030: WHO
2016-07-11 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Climate change will cause an additional 2,50,000 deaths from malaria, diarrhoeal disease, heat stress and under nutrition by 2030, a finding by World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated. The conclusion was drawn at a meeting held by the French government in Paris on July 8 to study actions taken to implement the Paris agreement in order to reduce health risks linked to climate change. Experts noted that climate change was already causing tens of thousands of deaths every year. This is in addition...
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'This is what climate change looks like', mass mangrove die offs hit top end
2016-07-11 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AFP: Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia's remote north have died, scientists said Monday, with climate change the likely cause. Some 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres), or nine percent of the mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria, perished in just one month according to researchers from Australia's James Cook University, the first time such an event has been recorded. It follows massive coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef from climate change and the news last week that warmer ocean...
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