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Periled by climate change, Marshall Islands makes carbon pledge
2015-07-19 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Marshall Islands, a small island country at high risk of climate change-induced sea level rise, vowed Sunday to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third within a decade. In a pledge to be officially filed with the UN next week, the sparsely populated cluster of Pacific atolls becomes the first small island nation to submit a carbon-cutting pledge ahead of a year-end conference in Paris tasked with producing a world climate pact. It is also among the first developing country to commit to...
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Winn-Dixie Donates to Wounded Warrior Project After Pledge of All July 4th Profits
2015-07-18 07:11:27| Grocery - Topix.net
Through a combination of customer and vendor donations and all profits earned at BI-LO, Harveys and Winn-Dixie grocery stores on Saturday, July 4th, Southeastern Grocers announced today that it will donate $3,044,091.38 to support the Wounded Warrior Project Independence Program , which helps warriors live life fully, on their own terms. Ian McLeod, CEO and president of Southeastern Grocers, said, "I am deeply moved by the outpouring of support this program received from our associates, customers and even from individuals living outside of the communities we serve.
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ExxonMobil Gave More Than $2.3M to Climate Deniers Despite Pledge
2015-07-16 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: ExxonMobil gave more than $2.3m to members of Congress and a corporate lobbying group that deny climate change and block efforts to fight climate change eight years after pledging to stop its funding of climate denial, the Guardian has learned. Climate denial from Republicans in Congress and lobby groups operating at the state level is seen as a major obstacle to US and global efforts to fight climate change, closing off the possibility of federal and state regulations cutting greenhouse...
Bond market innovation help China climate change pledge
2015-07-13 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Post: World leaders have agreed to limit global average temperature rises to within 2 degrees celsius. To achieve this, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends a 40-70 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century from 2010 levels, and decarbonisation of the global economy by the end of the century. The leaders of the G7 countries emphasised the importance of these targets at their summit in Germany last month. As the worlds largest greenhouse gas emitter, China has...
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North and South American Leaders to Pledge Fight Climate Change
2015-07-09 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Representatives from across North and South America gathered in Toronto this week for the Climate Summit of the Americas, where the government of Ontario and 21 other jurisdictions signed the first-ever Pan-American action statement on climate change. Signatories to the statement -- including Vermont, Oregon, and San Paolo -- agreed to band together to make sure global temperature levels don't go up more than two degrees celsius, report publicly on their efforts to reduce emissions, and support...
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