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Record number of countries sign historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change on Earth Day
2016-04-22 21:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AccuWeather: A historic meeting took place on April 22, 2016, as more than 155 countries have committed to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York. The agreement was approved by the 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention of the Climate Change (UNFCCC) in COP21 in Paris on Dec. 12, 2015. In the agreement, all countries pledged to work to limit the temperature rise overall below 2 degrees Celsius, but are aiming to achieve a temperature...
Happy Earth Day
2016-04-22 19:30:36| PortlandOnline
Today is Earth Day!
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An Earth Day look at 20 years of bringing back native vegetation
2016-04-22 16:52:43| PortlandOnline
April 22, 2016
Paris Climate Pact Affirmed in UN Earth Day Ceremony
2016-04-22 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: As global leaders sign the Paris Agreement on climate change today at UN Headquarters, the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction says they must go beyond their existing commitments if the world is to avoid future catastrophic weather events. "I welcome the fact that over 160 countries have declared they are signing up to the Paris Agreement but we are in real danger of being overtaken by the rapid pace of global warming if signatories do not significantly scale up the level of their...
Make this Earth Day a turning point in fighting climate change
2016-04-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Free Press: On the first Earth Day in 1970, 20 million people raised their voices for the environment. Their energy sparked a movement that now engages more than 1 billion people, in almost every country in the world. Earth Day continues to be the single largest annual secular event in history. The sheer size of the first protest - along with increasing visual evidence of dire health threats associated with air and toxic pollution - forced Congress to pass some of the world's toughest environmental laws,...
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