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Call to move away from fossil fuels
2014-04-13 14:38:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Massive cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are needed in the next few decades to avoid "dangerous" climate change, a major international report has warned. Output of carbon dioxide and other climate-changing gases has increased in recent years, despite efforts to tackle global warming, the latest study from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found. It is still possible to keep global temperature rises to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century,...
World must turn from fossil fuels to cleaner energy to avoid climate disaster, panel says
2014-04-13 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The amount of global greenhouse gas emissions soared to "unprecedented levels' over the decade ending in 2010, the world's top climate scientists said Sunday, and now governments must act aggressively to lower emissions or face the most dangerous consequences of global warming. At a meeting in Berlin, the scientists released an authoritative report showing that emissions from human development increased more between 2000 and 2010 than each of the previous three decades. It is a clear sign, they...
Call to move away from fossil fuels
2014-04-12 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Campaigners have demanded the world moves away from using fossil fuels ahead of a major international report on preventing climate change. The latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will set out ways to curb rising temperatures by tackling greenhouse gas emissions. The study is the third part of the IPCC's wide-ranging "fifth assessment report" on climate change. It comes just two weeks after the second part of the fifth assessment, which warned that the effects...
Desmond Tutu: divest from fossil fuels firms in apartheid-style boycott
2014-04-11 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Eminent bishop and Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called on businesses to cut ties with the fossil fuels industry, in the same way as they did with South African companies during apartheid. Writing in the Guardian, Tutu said that there were many ways people can raise their voice against companies that contribute to climate change. They can boycott sports events that they sponsor, campaign to put health warnings in their advertisements and ask for universities, religious institutions...
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Harvard academics rally for ethically responsible fossil fuels divestment
2014-04-11 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Ninety-three professors from Harvard University have signed an open letter that labels its presidents attitude towards climate change as contradictory and argues that divesting from fossil fuels is an act of ethical responsibility. The letter comes after president Drew Faust announced a new climate strategy for the university and revealed that it had signed up to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project. The signatories...
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