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Time running out says UN as CO2 levels hit record April high
2014-05-27 05:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: World leaders are running out of time to address the threat of climate change, the UNs chief meteorologist warned as carbon dioxide levels hit record highs in April. Data released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) revealed that for the first time CO2 topped 400 parts per million (ppm) in April throughout the northern hemisphere. WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the findings had symbolic and scientific significance, adding it should serve as a wake-up call over the...
UN: Time Is Running Out for Climate Change Action
2014-04-13 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: A worldwide push over the next 15 years is the only way to avoid the disastrous effects of climate change, experts appointed by the United Nations said Sunday. A report released Sunday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed that it is still possible to contain the worst effects of climate change, but governments must take extensive measures to reduce carbon emissions, the New York Times reports. Global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 40 to 70 percent compared with...
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Time running out to meet global warming target: U.N. report
2014-04-06 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft U.N. study to be approved this week shows. Government officials and top climate scientists will meet in Berlin from April 7-12 to review the 29-page draft that also estimates the needed shift to low-carbon energies would cost between two and six percent of world output by 2050. It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse...
Time running out for Great Barrier Reef:..
2014-03-06 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSN: Time is running out for Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, with climate change set to wreck irreversible damage by 2030 unless immediate action is taken, marine scientists said Thursday. Stretching along more than 2,000 km (1,200 miles) of Australia's eastern coast is one of the world's formost natural wonders - The Great Barrier Reef as shown is this file NASA satellite image In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef...
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Figueres warns world running out of time agree climate treaty
2014-01-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: A draft text for a global climate change treaty set to be agreed in 2015 will be presented to governments as early as November this year, according to the UN official in charge of negotiations. Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNs Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) expects work on what is guaranteed to be a controversial deal to start in little over 12 weeks time, giving diplomats seven months to flesh out proposals before the main climate summit of 2014 opens in Lima...
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