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Pre-2020 climate actions needed to curb emissions: Javadekar
2016-07-04 07:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Money Control: India on July 4 underlined the need for countries to take pre-2020 climate actions to curb emissions and sought cooperation among countries in finance and technology sectors to tackle climate change. "Cooperation is the key for taking (climate) actions. Every country is at a different stage of development. We need cooperation. We have the will to act," said Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar. Javadekar said that India has already started the process of ratification of Paris Climate agreement...
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Climate change makes flood more likely, more damaging, experts say
2016-07-04 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Charleston Gazette-Mail: National Weather Service graphic A map from the National Weather Service shows the intensity of the rains that brought floods to the region. Heavy rainstorms like those that caused last week's devasting flooding across a 12-county region of West Virginia are almost certainly made more frequent and more intense by global warming that is fueled by the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions, some of the nation's top climate science experts say. A half-dozen climate scientists from around the country...
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Climate change: big four banks' lending to Australian renewables projects falls
2016-07-04 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias big four banks lending for Australian renewable energy projects has tumbled in the first half of 2016, despite all of them spruiking their continuing support for the sector. Based on public announcements from the banks and their customers, the activist group Market Forces has found only two financing deals were closed this year in the Australian renewables sector. The National Australia Bank lent money to a windfarm in South Australia and both NAB and Westpac helped finance one...
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Small Island States adopt new climate change strategy
2016-07-03 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: The Small Island States of the Pacific Islands Forum have adopted a new climate change strategy to ensure their vulnerabilities are addressed as part of the regional policy agenda. The strategy was agreed to by leaders from the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and Tuvalu at a meeting last week in Palau. The Forum Secretariat's Development Co-operation Advisor, Alfred Schuster, says addressing climate change is one of the top priorities of the strategy. He says the Small Island...
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Climate deal caps North American leaders' summit
2016-07-03 22:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Potiner: North American Leaders to Discuss Climate Change in Canada "The world needs more Canada", Obama said, taking a moment to demand that Canada contribute more money to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has previously likened U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, said on Wednesday he only drew the comparison as a reminder of the devastation wreaked in the past. The so-called "Three Amigos" were posing...
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