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Pope's adviser urges Catholics to join climate marches
2015-11-28 01:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Pope's closest adviser on ecology has urged Catholics to join global climate marches planned for Sunday. In an internal letter to bishops, Cardinal Peter Turkson says people should be "encouraged" to exercise their "ecological citizenship". The letter says that climate negotiators meeting in Paris need to hear the voice of "God's people". Activists say the call is evidence of a step-change in the Church's approach to climate change. Major demonstrations across the world have been...
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Emma Thompson's presence adds weight to climate change march in Ottawa
2015-11-28 00:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Emma Thompsons view on global warming is, in a sense, fairly simple: We change or we die. The two-time Oscar-winning British actor has thrown her weight behind a march planned for Sunday in Ottawa ahead of the United Nations climate change conference kicking off in France next week. Activists are pushing Canadas newly minted Liberal government to adopt lofty fossil fuel reduction targets, with an end-goal of a completely clean, renewable economy by 2050. The march is one of about 2,000...
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Thousands march on climate change in Manila, Brisbane
2015-11-28 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Thousands turned out for climate change marches in Manila and Brisbane Saturday, part of a weekend of action across the globe to demand results from next week's historic Paris summit. Religious clergy, students and activists marched through the Philippine capital calling for curbs on emissions to mute the impact of climate change, which is blamed for a spike in typhoons and extreme weather that has wreaked havoc on the nation. The march, attended by more than 2,500 people according to police...
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As World Leaders Launch Paris Climate Talks Monday, Bill Gates Will Launch a Supporting Science Push
2015-11-27 23:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As world leaders meet in Paris on Monday to kick off two weeks of talks aimed at shaping safe targets for emissions of greenhouse gases, Bill Gates will be in town, as well, to announce a modest first step toward bolstering the basic energy research and technology development that will be needed to meet those targets affordably. The gap between the modest, but creditable, emissions pledges so far and any reasonable trajectory toward avoiding dangerous climate change is huge, as I wrote recently....
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Paris climate talks: Activists placed under house arrest by French authorities using emergency laws
2015-11-27 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: At least 24 climate change activists have been put under house arrest by French police. They are accused of defying a ban on organising protests during next week's 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. Three people have been placed under house arrest in Rens, two in Paris, two in Rouen and one in Lyons, according to a campaigns website collating information about police actions against activists. They are only allowed to leave their houses three times a day to sign a post office register...
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