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Brexit could halt climate change deal
2016-06-29 03:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Independent: IN BREXIT fallout news, EU governments might not see the publication of the Commission's climate change proposals by July 20, as expected. The Commission intends to table proposals as a follow-up to the international climate agreement in Paris in January, which requires a 30pc reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in sectors not covered by the emissions trading scheme such as agriculture, as part of an overall aim to reduce total emissions by 40pc by 2030. Climate chief Miguel Arias...
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Brexit is not a vote against climate change says UN's climate chief
2016-06-28 16:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britains decision to leave the European Union was not a vote against climate change, nor was it a vote against the innovation key to fighting climate change, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told an audience of business and policymakers at the annual Business & Climate summit in London today. In her last speech as the head of UNs climate change body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Figueres said, Its absolutely clear that should article 50 be triggered, the UK would have...
Could climate change affect your day fishing? Ontario researcher presents findings in Washington DC
2016-06-28 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC.ca: A Thunder Bay researcher with Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has just returned from briefing Senate staff in Washington, D.C. on the potential impacts of climate change on North America's recreational fishery. The invitation to speak on Capitol Hill came from the United States Geological Survey, following his participation in a number of conferences and workshops on the issue, says Len Hunt, who holds a PhD in geography and environmental studies from Wilfrid Laurier University....
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Republican Voters Evenly Split on Climate Change, Poll Finds
2016-06-28 11:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Consult: Most voters, including about half of Republicans, believe the climate is changing and the federal government should step in to cut greenhouse gases, according to new polling commissioned by a group of right-leaning energy-focused organizations. The groups will present their findings Tuesday at an event in Washington, D.C. According to the poll conducted by Just Win Strategies and TargetPoint Consulting, 68 percent of all respondents said they want federal government action to reduce emissions...
'Climate change, erosion pushing new generations to poverty along Ganga'
2016-06-28 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Money Life: Climate change and vicious river bank erosion in the post-Farakka Barrage period have blurred the lines between the rich and the poor and are pushing successive generations to grinding poverty along the lower stretches of the mighty Ganga in West Bengal. The frequent nature of erosion is induced by hydraulic control by the commissioning of the barrage in 1975 and Indo-Bangladesh water sharing treaty of 1977 and 1996, experts say. And the famed weaver's colony (taantis) in Shantipur block of West...
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