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Pope, World Bank and Google demand tougher climate policies
2016-04-21 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Brace yourselves for an avalanche of climate change warnings, pledges and projections. Every asset at the disposal of the UN and wider international community is being deployed to underline the need for urgent action to slash carbon emissions. As a feat of coordination its impressive. On Thursday the World Bank, IMF and OECD coalesced around a challenge to price 50% of carbon emissions by 2050. That initiative was backed by the leaders of six countries: Germany, France, Canada, Chile, Ethiopia...
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Rising seas puts Vietnam in climate change 'bull's eye'
2016-04-21 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Cornell Chronicle: Rising seas puts Vietnam in climate change 'bulls-eye' Fishing boats at a beach in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam with their nets stowed at the end of the day.Mike Hoffmann/ProvidedA woman sells fruits and vegetables at the floating farmers market near the city of Can Tho in the Mekong Delta region. In a tale of two life experiences, Mike Hoffmann went to Vietnam for the first time in 47 years: On his first tour of duty, he was a 19-year-old U.S. Marine, and for the March 2016 trip, Hoffmann...
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Climate: Africas Human Existence Is at Severe Risk
2016-04-21 16:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "Africa's human existence and development is under threat from the adverse impacts of climate change - its population, ecosystems and unique biodiversity will all be the major victims of global climate change." This is how clear the Nairobi-based United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is when it comes to assessing the negative impact of climate change on this continent of 54 countries with a combined population of over 1,200 billion inhabitants. "No continent will be struck as severely by...
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Which Countries Wont Be Signing the Paris Climate Deal on Earth Day?
2016-04-21 15:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: An unprecedented number of countries will be gathering in New York City tomorrow to sign the Paris climate deal. After significant progress was made this past December in agreeing the landmark deal, more than 167 countries--including past climate villains Iran, Canada and Australia and polluting giants China, the U.S. and the EU--are set to sign the Paris agreement on its opening day. But despite this, there are still some countries that remain absent from the UNs official list of attendees--and...
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This Is How Surfers Are Helping Fund Climate Science
2016-04-21 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Surfing is synonymous with riding waves all day, jamming to Jack Johnson, chilling around a beach bonfire by night and sleeping in a VW van before doing it all over again. But there's another idea that should also come to mind when imagining the idealized life of a surfer dude or dudette: science. L In particular, research on ocean health because, you know, their sport literally depends on it (so does the rest of humanity, but that's a whole separate conversation for another time). Oceans...
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