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People's Climate March aims to be biggest rally yet on global warming
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science: More than 100,000 people are expected to attend the Peoples Climate March in New York this weekend, a parade and protest that organizers hope will be the largest global rally yet to urge world leaders to act against climate change. The massive march, which will include a modest Macys parade-like spectacle of floats and marching bands, will travel a similar route down Manhattans Central Park West on Sunday. A moment of silence will interrupt the parade at 1 p.m., organizers say, but it will...
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Thousands expected NYC for largest climate-change march in history
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Celebrities, activists and political leaders are expected to join more than 100,000 people in New York City on Sunday for what organizers say will be the largest climate-change march in history. The Peoples Climate March has been endorsed by more than 1,400 organizations, including environment, faith and justice groups, as well as labor unions. Students have also mobilized marchers at more than 300 college campuses for the event, which calls on world leaders to do more to confront the threat...
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The global people's climate march is a reason to be a climate optimist
2014-09-21 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The people's climate march is a reason to be a climate optimist, despite the grave dangers posed by runaway global warming. Share Tweet this Email A crowd of up to 30,000 people gather at the State Library in Melbourne, Australia for the global people's climate march. Photo by Alexander White. We are almost out of time to build a zero carbon future, and the devastating impacts of global warming will only become worse if our leaders do nothing. Tens of thousands of people in Australia and many...
New York City Prepares to Host Climate Change March
2014-09-21 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: After months of planning, the Peoples Climate March is set to roll through a large swath of Midtown Manhattan on Sunday, taking public frustration over stalled efforts to curb carbon emissions to the streets in a noisy, vivid display of unity. At 11:30 a.m., the march is scheduled to begin moving east along 59th Street from Columbus Circle, proceeding along a circuitous, two-mile route, and drawing labor and immigrant groups, students and politicians, scientists and religious leaders. The march...
Massive NYC march aims focus world's eyes climate change
2014-09-21 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World leaders including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon were set to join farmers, fishermen, children and others in a massive demonstration on Sunday to demand action on climate change. Organizers are expecting 100,000 to join the People's Climate March in midtown Manhattan ahead of this week's U.N. General Assembly, which brings together 120 world leaders to discuss reducing carbon emissions that threaten the environment. The gathering will include celebrities such as musician Sting, scientists...
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