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Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines prepares climate change plans for worse to come
2013-11-11 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As one of the world's poorest and least developed countries, the Philippines is handicapped by a chronic lack of resources, poor or non-existent infrastructure, and a far-flung archipelagic geography when dealing with the natural catastrophes that regularly afflict it. But hard-won experience is also forcing Filipino government administrators and agencies, and their international collaborators, to examine and create new strategies for disaster preparedness, response and mitigation that have important...
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Australia: Climate change: when ignorance a recipe for disaster
2013-11-11 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: The Philippines had several days' notice that a super typhoon was on its way and it warned its people long and often. Many evacuated. But, for an estimated 10,000 who today lie dead, there was no defence against its brute force. As tropical cyclone Haiyan continued across the South China Sea to assault Vietnam, where the government had evacuated some 900,000 people in anticipation, one question being asked is whether it is the strongest on record. The answer? Based on the estimate by the US...
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UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland
2013-11-11 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: World nations have launched a new round of talks in Warsaw to pave the way for a 2015 deal to cut climate-altering greenhouse-gas emissions. The 12-day United Nations Climate Change Conference began on Monday in Poland's capital amid a slew of warnings about a potentially disastrous rise in greenhouse-gas emissions. Though no major decisions are expected at the conference, the level of progress could be an indicator of the world's chances of reaching a deal in 2015, which is the new landmark...
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Climate Change And Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Shortlists 55 Projects For The First Round Of Funding From Its International $35M Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses
2013-11-11 02:46:55| pollutiononline News Articles
TheClimate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporationhas invited full proposals from 55 projects from around the world for the first round of its $35 millionGrand Challenge
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UN expert warns climate change happening now
2013-11-10 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Climate change is erasing jobs, choking water supplies and permanently shifting the way people live, a new report from the UN University has revealed. Climate expert Dr Koko Warner warns that action is needed now. The United Nations University has released the second volume of Pushed to the Limit, a study that examines evidence of loss and damage caused by climate change from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries. In the run up to the climate conference in Warsaw, Dr...
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