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Quintiq World Tour Birmingham, October 9: Where Rail Industry Leaders Meet
2014-09-22 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Discover how rail industry leaders as Network Rail and VolkerRail use planning to optimise business at the Quintiq World Tour in Birmingham, UK, on 9 October 2014.
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Climate still burning issue as leaders lay out stalls
2014-09-21 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The last time so many world leaders gathered to talk about climate change, it was an unmitigated debacle: the 2009 Copenhagen summit intended to chart a international treaty collapsed amid a welter of recriminations and set back the effort to deal with global warming. This time in New York its different, or so they say. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon expects each president, prime minister or potentate to pledge what his or her country will do to help achieve the agreed goal of capping the...
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World leaders to gather at UN in shadow of Islamic State, Ebola crises
2014-09-21 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State militants are wreaking in Iraq and Syria, the exponential spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa and deadlocked negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. There is little hope the 193-nation UN general assembly will achieve much in the annual five-day marathon of speeches. But on the sidelines, US officials plan to lobby allies for pledges of concrete military assistance to help defeat Islamic State,...
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Ripe for change: World leaders must take note of climate march
2014-09-21 06:41:41| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Two days ahead of a United Nations climate summit, tens of thousands will gather today in New York City for a "people's march' against climate change. Leaders at the U.N. meeting should pay attention. This time, the public is watching. Summit participants will make no big decisions. Instead, the event is aimed at gathering momentum and political will in anticipation of U.N. talks on a binding climate protocol next year. Climate activists have a lot to be agitated about. The United States has...
Climate warning to world leaders: stick to 2C limit or face 'mayhem'
2014-09-21 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World leaders must commit themselves to holding current rises in global temperatures to 2C. That is the stark message of experts and campaigners in the runup to the United Nations climate summit that will be held in New York later this week. They say that 2C is the maximum temperature increase that the world can tolerate without causing environmental mayhem, and they insist that politicians attending the meeting, including Barack Obama and David Cameron, must agree to that upper limit. "If...
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