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United Kingdom: Green bank makes biggest investment in wind farms
2014-03-31 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: THE Green Investment Bank yesterday unveiled its biggest pay-out since its launch with the 461 million backing for two offshore wind projects. The investments represent a vote of confidence in a sector that has suffered a few setbacks with projects cancelled and energy company SSE reducing its commitment to renewables. State-backed GIB, based in Edinburgh and London, is investing 241m alongside Japans Marubeni Corporation in the Westermost Rough wind farm off the coast of East Yorkshire....
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United Kingdom: Former Archbishop of Canterbury blames climate change on western lifestyle
2014-03-31 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Rowan Williams, chairman of Christian Aid and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has blamed western lifestyles for climate change. He warned that this unsustainable way of life was pushing the environment towards a crisis. His comments coincide with the release of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which warns that no nation will be left untouched by the effects of a warming Earth. Williams describes the report as putting our local problems into a deeply...
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United Kingdom: Rowan Williams: Western lifestyles have pushed the world into catastrophe
2014-03-30 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wales Online: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of his fears for the planets climate - saying the winter flooding was a portent of what is to come. Dr Williams worries come on the eve of a ground-breaking report into the impacts of climate change. The former Archbishop of Wales, now Baron Williams of Oystermouth, blamed the lifestyle of Western countries for climate change, which he said is "pushing the environment towards crisis". Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he said...
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United Kingdom: Former archbishop Canterbury reveals global climate change fears
2014-03-30 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Former archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of his fears for the global climate, saying the winter flooding was a portent of what is to come. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he blamed the lifestyle of western countries, which he said was "pushing the environment towards crisis". He said the floods in Britain and similar weather-related catastrophes around the world are the clearest indications yet that predictions of "accelerated warming of the Earth" caused by the uncontrolled...
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United Kingdom: Climate change threat to native wildlife
2014-03-29 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: GLOBAL warming could sound the death knell for some of Scotland`s wildlife and unique habitats, according to a major international report to be released tomorrow. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report will present the strongest evidence yet of the drastic negative effects of human activity on the worlds oceans and the threat to life on Earth. It will warn that the impact of oxygen-starved seas, coastal erosion, changing seasons and the spread of invasive alien...
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