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Diverse Paris climate targets create accounting headache for carbon markets -report
2016-02-18 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Carbon Pulse: The diversity of the pledges made by countries to the UN climate summit in Paris creates accounting challenges for carbon trading and might require international oversight, according to a Wuppertal Institute report. The Paris Agreement marked the first time nearly all countries took on national commitments to help battle climate change, goals known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). But the pledges varied in nature: some were absolute GHG emission reductions, some were intensity-based...
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Al Gore says 'we will prevail' in fight against climate change
2016-02-18 10:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Al Gore is bullish on the future of humanity and our ability to confront climate change, telling the TED conference in Vancouver, "We are going to win this. We will prevail." It's been 10 years since Gore's first TED Talk, when he delivered a slide show about the climate crisis, months before the release of Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. On Wednesday, he brought good news about the exponential adoption of solar and other renewable energy sources, the closing of U.S. coal...
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What Does the Paris Climate Agreement Say about Waste?
2016-02-18 09:23:00| Waste Age
The subjects of recycling, composting, minimizing waste and the concept of Zero Waste emerged as priority solutions for a carbon-free future at the Paris climate talks. read more
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Climate: Lobster Shell Disease, Sea Star Epidemic Caused By Warming Waters
2016-02-18 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Lobsters in some areas of North America have experienced since the 1990s something called "epizootic shell disease," which makes their shells unsightly and difficult to sell. The condition has devastated lobster fisheries in southern New England, and now the Maine lobster industry may be at risk, too. A new Cornell University study conducted in 2015 suggests that warming ocean temperatures are largely responsible for this epidemic. Cornell researchers have published two studies detailing how diverse...
Climate change activists disrupt Utah oil and gas auction
2016-02-18 01:34:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In this Tuesday Feb. 16, 2016 photo, environmental writer Terry Tempest Williams with her bidding number walks on the hallway of the Bureau of Land Management's Salt Lake City office. Oil and gas industry officials have said environmental writer Tempest Williams' bid on at least 800 acres is insignificant.
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