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John Kerry to urge climate action in Indonesia address
2014-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the global community to act against climate change in a keynote speech during a visit to Indonesia. He said that there was scientific proof of climate change threatening not only the environment, but also the world economy. He said "the window of time is still open" to prevent the worst consequences, but that it was closing. The US, along with China, is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. On Saturday, both nations issued a joint statement...
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John Kerry to make clarion call for more action on climate change
2014-02-16 09:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US secretary of state John Kerry will on Sunday issue a clarion call for the world to do to more to combat climate change, warning the planet is being pushed to a tipping point of no return. In his keynote speech the top US diplomat will highlight the fact that Asian nations, many of them low-lying, are particularly under threat from rising sea levels. Kerry will call on the global community, not just countries but individual citizens around the world, to do more now because addressing the...
No Keystone answer yet, John Kerry tells John Baird
2014-01-17 08:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he still doesn't have an answer on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline extension, and suggests it won't be coming any time soon. Kerry, as well as Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade, took questions from reporters Friday morning in Washington, with Kerry's opening remarks stressing the "unity" among the three countries. Kerry says TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline application is making...
John Kerry Is Going Pursue Climate Change Treaty In 2015
2014-01-03 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Insider: The New York Times reports today that Secretary of State John Kerry is planning to make climate change a focal point of his time in office and wants to pursue a global climate change treaty in 2015. Kerry has set an ambitious agenda for himself, already in the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons, crafting a nuclear agreement with Iran and brokering peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. Now you can add reducing greenhouse gas emissions to that list. The former Massachusetts...
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John Kerry: Climate change is screaming at us for action
2013-06-23 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged the world to ramp up action on climate change, saying in India that changing weather patterns posed major costs to the planet. "Here in India, the home of so much of the history of science, we must recognise that today the science of climate change is screaming at us for action," Kerry said in a speech in New Delhi. After expressing his condolences for the victims of devastating floods in northern India, Kerry said that "it appears as if, in...