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Carbon Pricing Becomes a Cause for World Bank & I.M.F
2016-04-24 03:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are pressing governments to impose a price tag on planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions, using economic leverage and technical assistance that institutions like the United Nations cannot muster. The campaign by two of the largest international lenders comes as world leaders have begun to sign the Paris agreement on climate change, the United Nations accord that is supposed to commit nearly every country to take action to reduce emissions of greenhouse...
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Leonardo DiCaprio addresses world leaders on climate change: 'The world is watching'
2016-04-23 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Leonardo DiCaprio has told leaders "the world is watching" as they sign an historic agreement to combat climate change. The actor, who used his Oscar acceptance speech in February to highlight the seriousness of climate change, addressed world leaders at the UN headquarters in New York before they signed the Paris Agreement, a treaty which requires them to cut carbon emissions. "Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong," DiCaprio said. "After...
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World governments vow to end fossil fuel era at UN climate signing ceremony
2016-04-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 170 governments declared an end to the fossil fuel era on Friday, using the signing ceremony for the landmark Paris agreement as an occasion to renew their vows to fight climate change. The outpouring of support the largest ever single-day turn-out for a signing ceremony underscored strong international commitment to deliver on the promises made in Paris last December to avoid a climate catastrophe, the leaders said. There is no turning back, François Hollande, the French president,...
World leaders sign on to climate change deal
2016-04-22 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Village Sun Times: The recent El Nio likely played a role in many or all of these, but scientists say climate change nearly certainly did too. The US is a key concern for the Paris Agreement as other countries worry what the next president might do. The non-binding treaty, approved in Paris in December after years of United Nations climate negotiations, aims to slow the rise of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, blamed for putting Earth on a risky warming path. "Today marks a beginning, a historic start"....
Climate change adds urgency to push to save world seeds
2016-04-22 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: During the 872-day German siege of Leningrad in World War II, in which an estimated 1.1 million civilians died, a small band of workers devoted themselves to safeguarding a priceless trove of 200,000 seeds at the Institute of Plant Industry. Then the worlds largest seed bank, the collection had been amassed, in large part, by famed Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov during expeditions to 64 countries. As the siege wore on and starvation became epidemic, workers at the institute refused to eat the...
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