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Top Vatican official: climate change action is a moral imperative
2016-02-02 02:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Mhortly after Pope Benedict XVIs surprise resignation in February 2013, Vatican insiders started making predictions. The next pope, many said, would be starkly different. He would hail from a continent where Catholicism was spreading the fastest. He would be African. He would be the Ghanaian Archbishop of the Cape Coast. He would be Peter Turkson. The choice, we know now, was dramatic. The cardinals in the Sistine Chapel departed Europe for the first time and selected a Latin American Pope Francis...
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VIDEO: What is the 'resilience imperative'?
2016-01-19 01:16:43| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
In the first of the BBC's Davos plain-speaking challenge, we asked WEF's Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, to explain the term "resilience imperative" without using any jargon.
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Obama: climate change an economic, security imperative
2015-12-01 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the world needs an enduring framework for addressing climate change and that he would seek an agreement that would boost economies as well as help the planet's environment. A strong climate pact would send a signal to researchers and investors that change is necessary and will spur energy innovation, Obama said at a news conference at the U.N. global climate summit in Paris. Obama said he expected the United States could uphold its climate commitments...
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The imperative of forest conservation
2015-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: On the outskirts of Paris, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) is meeting to ensure that the threat of runaway climate change is neutralized. COP21 will host more than 100 world leaders and over 40,000 delegates who hope to finalize a global warming pact. Key to the success of this effort is a little known proposal representing one of the quickest, lowest cost and most non-controversial approaches to solving the climate problem. The proposal, known formally as "Reducing...
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Robert Redford: Pope Francis Is Right, Climate Change Is a Moral Imperative
2015-10-04 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pope Francis address to Congress will go down in history as a day when the needle finally moved on climate change. The pontiffs timely message of more dialogue and less discord, respect for life in all of its stages, and a call to protect our common home was irrepressible and impossible to ignore. Sometimes you need a friend to tell you the truth. It took someone from outside the U.S. to come and remind us who we are--nd who we are supposed to be. The choice has never been clearer. If we carry...
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