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Ban Enlisting Business on Climate Change May Win UN Pact
2014-09-18 21:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons strategy to forge a global climate agreement by 2015 will enter a new phase next week when more than 120 world leaders meet in New York to discuss greenhouse gas cuts. Having spent his eight years in office working toward a global consensus on the threat of climate change, Ban is turning up pressure for an international agreement to reduce emissions blamed for global warming. On Sept. 23, Ban will host more than 120 heads of state and government at...
World will 'change course' on climate at UN summit
2014-09-18 00:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A UN summit on climate change will see the world "change course" and begin to seriously tackle global warming, UN climate envoy Mary Robinson said Wednesday. More than 120 leaders are to attend the summit on Tuesday called to inject new momentum in efforts to address climate change ahead of a crucial conference in Paris next year. "The message from the climate summit and the message going forward to Paris is that it's not business as usual with a little bit of green attached," Robinson told...
Mark Ruffalo calls on Obama to ban fracking ahead of UN climate summit
2014-09-17 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo called on US president Barack Obama to ban fracking and make the US the renewable energy capital of the world on Tuesday. Ruffalo made the plea in a press call hosted by Food & Water Watch, which released a report on Tuesday tying the controversial practice of fracking to climate change. The report comes days ahead of next weeks UN climate summit in New York. By stopping this fracking, it doesnt mean that we have to go backwards we dont have to take an...
Threatened ozone layer shows first sign of recovery: U.N
2014-09-10 20:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The ozone layer that shields life from cancer-causing solar rays is showing its first sign of recovery after years of dangerous depletion, a U.N. study said on Wednesday, in a rare piece of good news on the environment. Experts said it was largely down to global action - a 1987 ban on man-made gases that damage the fragile high-altitude screen. The agreement would help prevent millions of cases of skin cancer and other conditions, they added. The ozone hole that appears over Antarctica has...
Activists to be chosen to speak at UN climate summit
2014-08-29 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Today more than 500 members of the public will hear whether they have been chosen to attend the UN Climate Summit in September. Environmental activists from 115 countries put forward their names to be considered to address issues of climate change to world leaders at the summit. The competition is described as the first of its kind that has opened to allow members of the public to apply to address more than 100 heads of state and government. The summit will be held at UN headquarters in New...
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