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Thousands protest climate change at worldwide rallies
2014-09-21 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tens of thousands of people marched in New York and across the globe on Sunday, joined by celebrities and political leaders to demand urgent action to stem climate change. Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, US former vice president turned advocate Al Gore, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and New York mayor Bill de Blasio marched down Sixth Avenue in what organizers hoped would be the largest such protest in history. In London, an estimated 40,000 people paraded past Trafalgar Square and the Houses of...
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Climate activists protest ahead of NY summit
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Climate activists have rallied in Australia at the start of worldwide protest to press for overdue steps at Tuesday's UN summit in New York. In Cairns, protestors urged G20 finance ministers to switch to "renewables." Protestors alarmed by rising levels of climate-warming gases gathered in Australia's main cities on Sunday ahead of a key rally in New York. It's the venue of a one-day UN summit to be attended by 120 world leaders on Tuesday. Outside a G20 finance ministers' conference in Cairns,...
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Australia: Climate protest outside G20
2014-09-20 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SBS: About 100 peaceful protesters are chanting "100 per cent clean energy" outside the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Cairns. The People's Climate March gathered outside the local casino on Sunday morning before marching to the convention centre where finance ministers and central bankers from the world's richest nations are meeting. Supporters are holding green heart shaped signs and other banners saying "be the change" and "trees and bees". Sitting on the grass outside the convention centre,...
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Hundreds protest climate change along 2 miles of Wilshire Boulevard
2014-09-20 20:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Hundreds of people protesting climate change picketed street corners Saturday along a 2-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The spread-out rally was one of seven staged in cities across California as a preview of a demonstration expected to draw as many as 400,000 on Sunday in New York City. The Wilshire Boulevard protest was met with a raucous serenade of honking horns during the four-hour demonstration. Participants ranging from college groups to environmental and social activist...
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U.N. Secretary-General Will Join Climate Protest in New York on Sunday
2014-09-18 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: In a rare move, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will join the more than 100,000 protesters expected to gather in New York on Sunday to push for countries to take action against manmade global warming. The "People's Climate March" comes just two days ahead of a climate summit that Ban is leading in New York, where more than 120 heads of state, as well as business leaders and members of civil-society organizations are expected to discuss plans for a new global warming treaty. The...
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