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Call UN climate deal support carbon market links
2014-11-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Countries around the world are developing an array of different carbon taxes and trading systems to control greenhouse gas emissions. The more these can be joined up, experts say, the cheaper it will be to tackle climate change. This argument is gaining ground among businesses and developed economies, but advocates fear anti-capitalist Latin American states could use UN climate negotiations to block it. Dirk Forrister, CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), says there...
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Big Oils heirs join call for action as climate summit opens
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industrys first family, scions of a business empire that spawned companies called Exxon, Mobil, Amoco and Chevron. So it was no trivial matter when a group of Rockefeller heirs decided recently to begin severing financial ties to fossil fuels. There is a moral imperative to preserve a healthy planet, said Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, a great-great-granddaughter of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr. and a trustee of the largest charitable foundation...
Marchers sound call for climate change action
2014-09-21 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Tens of thousands of people marched through Manhattan sounding an urgent call for action to reverse global climate change Sunday. One marcher's sign read "cut your emissions or you'll sleep with the fishes." The "People's Climate March" in New York was billed as the largest of several protests held around the world two days before the start of the United Nations' Climate Summit. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon walked with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore along the two-and-a-half mile route....
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Leading climate scientists call religious leaders help save the environment
2014-09-18 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Two of the worlds leading scientists have made an unprecedented call on religious leaders to spark a massive mobilisation of public opinion, insisting that only through God can we save the environment. Writing in the journal Science, Cambridge Universitys Partha Dasgupta and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, of the University of California, have made an impassioned plea for help in curbing the potentially catastrophic effects of what they call the ongoing abuse of the planets natural resources....
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As Climate Change Hits Home, Americans Call for Action
2014-09-11 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The World Meteorological Organization announced this week that climate change pollution has reached record levels. Carbon pollution alone -- one of the most potent greenhouse gases -- had its biggest spike in 30 years. These measurements tell an alarming story about what is happening in our atmosphere. To understand what they mean here on earth, we just have to look outside the window. When fifth-generation Iowa farmer Matt Russell gazes out over his farm, he sees cycles of intense drought and rain...
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