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Who should pay for climate change disasters?
2013-11-27 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: TO A casual observer of the latest round of climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, last week, it was a battle between Polish coal miners set on keeping their jobs and the people of the Philippines, trying to keep afloat after tempests worsened by climate change. In the corridors, the focus was different: it was another stage in the agonisingly slow crawl towards a global deal on carbon emissions that diplomats hope to seal in 2015. Little progress was made on most issues. But the two-week United...
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Who should pay for climate change disasters?
2013-11-26 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: To a casual observer of the latest round of United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, last week, it was a battle between Polish coal miners determined to hang on to their jobs, and the people of the Philippines, who would rather not lose their lives to the tempests likely unleashed by climate change. In the corridors, the talks looked different: another stage in the agonisingly slow crawl towards a deal on carbon emission that diplomats hope to seal in 2015. Little progress was made on...
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Philippines 'more & more vulnerable' disasters
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A spate of disasters in the Philippines that has caused substantial damage to agriculture, infrastructure and the economy, as well as a huge loss of lives, has underlined the need for stronger disaster management efforts and action to address climate change, experts said. In the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 5,000 people in the central Philippines and left many thousands more homeless, climate and disaster experts said disaster preparedness need to be scaled down to...
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World Bank urges greater investment in managing climate, disasters
2013-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NGR Guardian: MORE can be done to help vulnerable countries adapt to climate change, as well as prepare for and respond to weather-related disasters, according to a new World Banks report released yesterday on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) climate talks in Warsaw. The summit, with the title Building Resilience: Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development, looks at the gradual or slow-onset effects of climate change like sea-level rise, salinisation of freshwater sources and droughts,...
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World may be looking at India for recent natural disasters
2013-11-17 08:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: World may be looking at India for its response to what had happened recently in Odisha and Uttarakhand due to natural disasters which were results of climatic extremes, but there was not a word on these two unfortunate incidents from Indian side, comprising official negotiators, here at the UN climate change conference during the first week of this mega event that would eventually culminate into a global climate deal in Paris in 2015. Neither the Indian government's open statement nor the negotiators'...
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