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Climate change to change life as we know it, says UN report
2014-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: The huge impact of climate change will be laid bare at the end of this month when the UN publishes its most authoritative account so far into the misery likely to be inflicted by unchecked global warming. According to a final draft version of the report, seen by The Independent, climate change is set to have a devastating impact on everything from human health, social stability and food security to the economy, ecosystems and water resources by the end of this century. Coastal systems and low-lying...
Pacific island states pushed aside in race for UN funds: Tuvalu
2014-03-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tiny Pacific island nations, among those hardest hit by climate change, are being outmuscled by larger states in the race to get U.N. funds earmarked for climate change adaptation, Tuvalu's minister of natural resources said on Wednesday. At a meeting in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator where land-locked developing countries and small island states debated how to ensure future food security amid hotter weather and rising sea-levels, Tuvalu Natural Resources Minister Elisala Pita slammed the U.N.'s...
Least Developed Countries say science must drive UN climate talks
2014-03-07 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The Least Developed Countries (LDC) group at the UN climate negotiations represents 49 states especially vulnerable to climate change. Members include Pacific Islands like Tuvalu and Kiribati, smaller Asian states like Nepal and Myanmar, and African countries like Somalia, Eritrea and Gambia. The group is economically weak, but acts as a collective conscience within the UN talks, offering a constant reminder why it is so important to control greenhouse gas emissions. Below Prakash Mathema,...
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Valuing Natural Resources Critical Africa's 'Green Economy' Growth - UN
2014-02-24 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
allAfrica: The next wave of investment and innovation in Africa will be driven by the need for new energy resources, wealth generation and job creation, the head of the United Nations environment agency told regional leaders, making a case for the need to place value on natural resources. "As the continent undergoes such unprecedented development, wealth accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services are critical to Africa's future growth," Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, Achim Steiner,...
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U.S. lays out vision for 2015 climate pact to U.N
2014-02-13 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United States on Wednesday submitted to the United Nations its vision for a new international climate agreement that is "built to last," outlining what it thinks should be the main elements of a climate deal to be agreed upon in Paris in 2015. The U.S. delegation was the first to share its ideas for what the 2015 climate deal could look like, and made clear that a future framework should not use the "bifurcated approach" of the 1997 Kyoto protocol, which placed different burdens on developed...
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