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COP21: climate change provokes protests of all shapes and sizes
2015-11-28 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Euronews: Ahead of Monday`s (November 30) United Nations climate conference in the French capital, Oxfam set up a 'mocked up` leaders` breakfast. The anti-poverty charity sat down 'big head` avatars of François Hollande, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi in Parisian café. They were given rather an unusual menu. The specials board, for example, called for "more money for poor people to adapt to climate change" as well as "Stronger emissions reductions." "Unless we succeed in...
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Ahead of COP21, climate-change activists prepare to march on London
2015-11-28 13:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EuroNews: Activists in London are preparing for Sunday`s (November 29) People`s March for Climate, Justice and Jobs. The rally in the English capital is scheduled to take place on the eve of the COP21 international climate change conference in Paris. Its aim is to find a mechanism to limit global temperature increases to two degrees Celsius. "We hold those politicians to account" French President François Hollande has insisted the agreement reached at the conference must be legally-binding. Neil...
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COP21: Public support for tough climate deal 'declines'
2015-11-27 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Public support for a strong global deal on climate change has declined, according to a poll carried out in 20 countries. Only four now have majorities in favour of their governments setting ambitious targets at a global conference in Paris. In a similar poll before the Copenhagen meeting in 2009, eight countries had majorities favouring tough action. The poll has been provided to the BBC by research group GlobeScan. Just under half of all those surveyed viewed climate change as a "very...
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COP21: Pope Says Failure Paris Would Be Catastrophic
2015-11-27 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: On Thursday afternoon Pope Francis spoke about the importance of safeguarding the environment and ensuring a just distribution of the earths wealth as he addressed directors and staff of the United Nations Offices in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. On his way to the meeting, the Pope symbolically planted a tree, which he described as an invitation to continue the battle against phenomena like deforestation and desertification in order to safeguard the future of humanity. He also highlighted the...
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COP21: 2015 likely to be warmest on record, says UN weather body
2015-11-25 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Global average temperatures in 2015 are likely to be the warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Data until the end of October showed this year's temperatures running "well above" any previous 12 month period. The researchers say the five year period from 2011 to 2015 was also the warmest on record. The rise, they state, was due to a combination of a strong El Nino and human-induced global warming. The WMO said their preliminary estimate, based on...
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