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Can the Paris agreement protect poor farmers from climate change?
2015-12-14 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Purity Gachanga is one small-scale farmer who is beating climate change. On her several acres of land in Embu North district in central Kenya, she keeps cows and goats that produce milk, grows trees for fodder, and collects water to irrigate her food crops in a pond filled with tilapia fish. Since she started out in the 1970s, she has overcome increasingly erratic rainfall by using new technologies and trying out different crops and trees. She even turns her animal manure into biogas, harnessing...
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European Commission takes Poland to court over poor air quality
2015-12-10 15:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Commission has decided to take Poland to court over its failure to address its poor air quality, the EU's executive said on Thursday. The use of coal and, sometimes, garbage to heat houses makes Poland's air the most polluted in Europe, according to local government data. Air pollution is felt particularly in the south of the country, near ski resort towns in the Tatra Mountains where homeowners often neglect environmental rules. The European Commission said Poland had persistently...
Fuelling its growth with coal, India champions the poor in Paris
2015-12-05 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India's hardline position in global climate talks has made it a potential villain for Western nations as it warns that its greenhouse emissions, mostly from burning dirty coal, may keep rising past the middle of the century. Its little-known team came to Paris with a mission to force rich nations to lead the way in curbing emissions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the summit that "climate justice" meant poor nations needed "room to grow". Such positions may have prompted U.S. Secretary of...
Climate talks set to fail if no deal on money, say poor nations
2015-12-03 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Angry developing nations warned Thursday that increasingly tense UN talks aimed at averting catastrophic climate change would fail unless a bitter feud over hundreds of billions of dollars was resolved. Negotiators from 195 nations are haggling in Paris over a planned universal accord to slash greenhouse-gas emissions that trap the Sun's heat, warming Earth's surface and oceans and disrupting its delicate climate system. Taking effect from 2020, the pact would target emissions from fossil fuels...
World leaders urged cut air pollution to save lives poor countries
2015-12-03 14:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World governments have been urged to tackle air pollution in poorer countries by greening cities, reducing traffic and adopting better diets, and told that this will also rein in climate change, which global health specialists estimate will cause at least 250,000 additional deaths a year by 2030. It makes complete sense to tackle air pollution and climate change together, said Maria Neira, director of the World Health Organisations (WHO) department of public health. The solutions are the same....
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