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World Bank, IPCC gather to discuss climate risks
2016-04-11 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The world`s top finance officials head to Washington DC this week for the annual IMF/World Bank Spring Meeting. There`s much to discuss as global economic growth continues to slow, but there are likely to be some intriguing climate finance discussions on the sidelines. Here`s a mini preview from John Roome, the Bank`s new head of climate: "There is going to be a meeting of the high-level assembly of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. Now this is a coalition of countries and companies...
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World Bank aims to add 30GW of global renewable capacity by 2020
2016-04-11 01:00:00| Power Technology
The World Bank Group has adopted a new Climate Change Action Plan, aiming to add 30GW of global renewable capacity by 2020.
Australia could be world leader in solar-powered electric vehicles
2016-04-10 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Renew Economy: The shift from petrol cars to electric vehicles appears to be more than a consumer-driven, Tesla-inspired phenomenon. The big utilities are also getting on board. Origin Energy, one of country`s big three utilities, says Australia could a market leader in solar-powered electric vehicles, given the right incentives and policies that could encourage the uptake of renewable energy and force the closure of the most polluting brown coal power stations. "With an already high penetration of residential...
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Climate-related death of coral around world alarms scientists
2016-04-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Kim Cobb, a marine scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, expected the coral to be damaged when she plunged into the deep blue waters off Kiritimati Island, a remote atoll near the center of the Pacific Ocean. Still, she was stunned by what she saw as she descended some 30 feet to the rim of a coral outcropping. "The entire reef is covered with a red-brown fuzz," Dr. Cobb said when she returned to the surface after her recent dive. "It is otherworldly. It is algae that has grown over...
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World faces soil crisis due to global warming
2016-04-10 13:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IOL: The world is facing a soil crisis that could badly hit food production, according to alarming new research, which warns that climate change is likely to damage soil fertility much more than expected. A 17-year study, published in the journal PLoS One, into the effect of global warming on microbes -the tiny bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms that determine soil health - reveals them to be far less adaptable to changing conditions than scientists had thought. This raises concerns that...
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