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New Zealand: Govt's climate change efforts slammed
2014-05-02 00:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
3News: Political leaders are being urged to take climate change seriously, with a new report slamming the Government's lack of action. Generation Zero yesterday released a 40-page report, A Challenge to Our Leaders: Why New Zealand Needs a Clean Energy Plan, bringing together studies and analysis on climate change and fossil fuel dependence. In it, the group concludes the current Government has "hollowed out or removed" policies aimed at reducing New Zealand's dependence on oil and coal, and has allowed...
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Philippines: UN warns govts on coal use
2014-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Manila Standard Today: The Aquino administration should heed the United Nations and stop the construction of 17 coal plants and shift to renewable energy in light of last Mondays report of the UN scientific panel on climate change, according to a civil society group. The latest publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that the world can still keep global warming below dangerous levels only through immediate and drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as by almost quadrupling the...
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Govts pledge $280M to slow deforestation for agriculture
2013-11-21 05:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The governments of Norway, Britain and the United States pledged $280 million toward a new initiative that aims to reduce emissions associated with forest conversion for agriculture, reports Reuters. The money will come out of previously committed funds for climate change. The initiative, called the BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes and administered by the World Bank, focuses on the 80 percent of deforestation that is driven by agriculture. Norway will contribute up million...
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BT 'disturbed' by UK govt's rural broadband report
2013-09-26 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Public Accounts Committee calls for halt to further public spending on grounds that BT is exploiting its 'quasi-monopolistic' position.
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NYT Criticizes Canadian Govt's Muzzling of Scientists to Protect Oil Sands
2013-09-23 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: The New York Times editorial board is taking the Harper government to task for allegedly silencing publicly funded scientists, a strategy the Times says is designed to ensure oil sands production proceeds quietly. The strongly worded Sunday editorial comes as the PR fight over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is heating up, with U.S. President Barack Obama yet to make a decision on whether to approve the project that would transport bitumen from Albertas oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Over...
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