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World takes to streets demand climate action
2014-09-21 12:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Thousands of people will take to the streets in New York on Sunday, joining hundreds of thousands more around the world, to demand action to stop climate change, as world leaders prepare to meet at the United Nations. In the global Peoples Climate march, people in more than 160 countries will join more than 2,800 peaceful events and rallies, calling for commitment at the first UN climate negotiations since the failed Copenhagen conference in 2009. From Kathmandu to Adelaide, hundreds of thousands...
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Ripe for change: World leaders must take note of climate march
2014-09-21 06:41:41| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Two days ahead of a United Nations climate summit, tens of thousands will gather today in New York City for a "people's march' against climate change. Leaders at the U.N. meeting should pay attention. This time, the public is watching. Summit participants will make no big decisions. Instead, the event is aimed at gathering momentum and political will in anticipation of U.N. talks on a binding climate protocol next year. Climate activists have a lot to be agitated about. The United States has...
Climate warning to world leaders: stick to 2C limit or face 'mayhem'
2014-09-21 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World leaders must commit themselves to holding current rises in global temperatures to 2C. That is the stark message of experts and campaigners in the runup to the United Nations climate summit that will be held in New York later this week. They say that 2C is the maximum temperature increase that the world can tolerate without causing environmental mayhem, and they insist that politicians attending the meeting, including Barack Obama and David Cameron, must agree to that upper limit. "If...
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US Power Plants Dirty the World More Than Most
2014-09-21 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A new report is ranking America's power plants as some of the worst polluters the world has seen, sullying our air with more carbon emissions that the industries of Russia, India, and Japan combined. According to the report released by the Environment America Research and Policy Center, only China remains in the lead with emissions, but also boasts significantly cleaner individual power plants, compared to an apparently outdated US industry. "America's dirtiest power plants are the elephant...
Report: Prevent Climate Effects by Fixing World Economy
2014-09-20 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world can still act in time to stave off the worst effects of climate change, and enjoy the fruits of continued economic growth as long as the global economy can be transformed within the next 15 years, a group of the world's leading economists and political leaders will argue on Tuesday. The report about the climate and economy comes ahead of a UN-convened summit of world leaders on global warming. Tackling climate change can be a boon to prosperity, rather than a brake, according to the...
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