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Weak EU 2030 climate deal risks nearly a million jobs, warn unions
2014-10-22 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nearly a million potential jobs will be lost if EU leaders fail to agree strong climate and energy targets at a summit starting on Thursday, according to the head of Europes trade union movement. Europes heads of state are set to sign a deal which, the Guardian understands, proposes a binding 40% greenhouse gas cut by 2030 and two goals which will not be binding on member states, one for a share of 27% of energy coming from renewable sources and another for a 27% improvement in energy efficiency....
Texas nurse was familiar with risks of Ebola virus
2014-10-15 11:10:51| Biotech - Topix.net
The Texas nurse who caught Ebola from an infected patient was no stranger to the risks of working around one of the world's most feared viruses. In nursing school, Nina Pham had studied microbiology and infection prevention.
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Pentagon Signals Security Risks Climate Change
2014-10-14 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Pentagon on Monday released a report asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster responses as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises. The report lays out a road map to show how the military will adapt to rising sea levels, more violent storms and widespread droughts. The Defense Department...
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Pentagon: Climate Change Poses Immediate Risks
2014-10-14 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Department of Defense sees climate change as an "immediate' risk and is taking steps to assess those risk and respond to them according to its newly unveiled Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. The document, released on Monday, is an update to the agency's first climate roadmap released in 2012. But rather than being a slight tweak, it provides a major overhaul of how the military views the challenges that climate change poses in the near- and long-term to its training, operations, supply chains...
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Penny-pinching risks global climate deal success in 2015, France says
2014-10-11 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rich states that bean-count their climate aid contributions are threatening the prospect of a climate deal being agreed in Paris next year, French leaders say. By 2020, a $100bn-a-year (62bn-a-year) green climate fund has been pledged to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate disruption. And the UN has set itself a fundraising target of $10bn (6.2bn) for the end of this year. But so far, just $2.3bn (1.4bn) has been banked, despite pledges of $1bn (620m) each by France and...
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