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Redford says fighting global warming is urgent
2015-12-04 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: American actor and environmental activist Robert Redford called global warming "an urgent matter" Friday and encouraged mayors to reduce local emissions even as world diplomats are trying to work out a global climate accord. Redford, trustee of the NGO Natural Resources Defense Council, told The Associated Press that the U.N. climate conference under way in Paris is "key." "I think we're running out of time because the planet is running out of resources," he said. "I think now the American...
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Robert Redford: Pope Francis Is Right, Climate Change Is a Moral Imperative
2015-10-04 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pope Francis address to Congress will go down in history as a day when the needle finally moved on climate change. The pontiffs timely message of more dialogue and less discord, respect for life in all of its stages, and a call to protect our common home was irrepressible and impossible to ignore. Sometimes you need a friend to tell you the truth. It took someone from outside the U.S. to come and remind us who we are--nd who we are supposed to be. The choice has never been clearer. If we carry...
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Robert Redford Urges Heads of States to Agree on Climate Change at UN
2015-06-30 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford addressed the United Nations Monday, urging world leaders to take bold and immediate action on climate change and to adopt a climate agreement at a global climate conference in December. Redford, who referred to himself as an actor by trade but...an activist by nature, spoke at a high-level event on climate change attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, international diplomats and climate activists. The 78-year-old, who founded the Sundance...
Redford: Time to step up game on climate change
2015-06-28 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: On Monday, I'll have the honor of addressing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and representatives from 193 countries gathered at U.N. headquarters in New York to call for immediate action on global climate change. This meeting is part of a growing groundswell being felt throughout the world with citizens, cities, religious leaders, corporations and nations demanding real action. And when world leaders meet in Paris this December, the world will be watching. I believe climate change is the...
Robert Redford: Fossil Fuels Need to Stay in the Ground, Renewable Energy Is the Future
2015-01-29 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Democracy Now!s Amy Goodman sat down today with Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning director, actor and longtime environmentalist, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. In the interview, Goodman jumps right in by asking Redford, founder of Sundance Film Festival, about last weeks vote where half of the Senate refuses to formally acknowledge the existence of man-made climate change. I think the deniers of climate change are probably the people who are afraid of change. They dont...