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China drives world carbon emissions to record high
2014-09-21 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World carbon dioxide emissions will hit a record high this year, driven by China's growth and keeping the world far off track from the deep cuts needed to limit climate change, a study said on Sunday. More than half of proven fossil fuel reserves may have to stay in the ground if governments are serious about a promise made in 2010 to limit a rise in average temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above pre-industrial times, the Global Carbon Project report by leading research institutes said....
World carbon budget will be exhausted in a generation, scientists warn
2014-09-21 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Global CO2 emissions reached a record high of 36 billion tonnes in 2013, "eroding the chances" of keeping global warming within internationally recognised safe levels, scientists said today. The 2.3 per cent growth in emissions seen over 2013 is likely to be followed by a further 2.5 per cent rise during this year to 40 billion tonnes -- a level 65 per cent higher than in 1990, according to international research group the Global Carbon Project (GCP), which includes scientists from the universities...
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World leaders to gather at UN in shadow of Islamic State, Ebola crises
2014-09-21 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State militants are wreaking in Iraq and Syria, the exponential spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa and deadlocked negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. There is little hope the 193-nation UN general assembly will achieve much in the annual five-day marathon of speeches. But on the sidelines, US officials plan to lobby allies for pledges of concrete military assistance to help defeat Islamic State,...
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China, US, India push world carbon emissions up
2014-09-21 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heat-trapping gases. The world pumped an estimated 39.8 billion tons (36.1 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide into the air last year by burning coal, oil and gas. That is 778 million tons (706 metric tons) or 2.3 percent more than the previous year. "It's in the wrong direction,"...
With UN Climate Summit Opening, Marches Planned Around the World
2014-09-21 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Two days before a United Nations summit on climate change, people are marching in cities around the world Sunday to urge their leaders to act boldly to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving the changes. The "People's Climate March" comes just before more than 120 heads of state will gather in New York City for the summit, convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. He wants to urge heads of state to act decisively by switching to cleaner sources of energy, preventing deforestation,...
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