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New Zealand: Raise climate change at UN, say Greens
2015-07-04 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: The Green Party says the Government should use its presidency of the United Nations Security Council to highlight the threat climate change poses to peace and security. New Zealand is chairing the Security Council this month. Kennedy Graham says the survival of small island states are at stake. Green Party's global affairs spokesperson Kennedy Graham said New Zealand has already made the security of small island states the subject of the Open Debate later this month. He said the biggest...
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Car-sharing greens the city
2015-06-29 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Sharing your neighbour's car may be the most climate-friendly way of getting to work. One shared car can replace as many as 13 privately owned vehicles. In the green, smart city of the future, we will probably travel quite differently from today. Maybe we'll live right by the train station and cycle to the office on a shared city bike. Or we may check an app on our mobile to see if anyone else is heading in the same direction, so that we can drive together. Both ride-sharing and car-sharing are...
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In twist, Obama emissions plan satisfies industry, worries greens
2015-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For two years, President Barack Obama has used his executive power to impose new rules to cut carbon emissions, targeting cars and power plants, buoying environmentalists and infuriating industry. His latest foray - regulating commercial aviation - had the opposite effect. On Wednesday, the administration took a first step toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's fleet of aircraft, releasing a scientific finding that said emissions from plane engines pose a risk to human health...
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Court Rules Against Greens Endorsing Feds' Handling of Arctic Spill Response Plans
2015-06-12 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Houston Chronicle: A federal court on Thursday affirmed the Obama administrations oversight of Shells plans for cleaning up an oil spill should one occur during its work in the Arctic Ocean, delivering a blow to environmentalists who argued the governments scrutiny was superficial. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Interior Department regulators were right to subject Shells oil spill plans to a streamlined analysis, without conducting a broad environmental assessment...
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Greens can find common ground on climate change - Shaw
2015-06-01 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: Newly elected Green Party co-leader James Shaw says he has no plans to cosy up to the National Party, but he believes there is room for the two parties to find common ground on the thorny issue of climate change. In his first major speech as co-leader, the former businessman yesterday dismissed any lingering fears that he was right-leaning and a "free market capitalist hero". He rejected comparisons to Prime Minister John Key and reiterated his opposition to formal ties with National. But...
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