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Green climate help for poor nations needed
2015-11-08 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN's Green Climate Fund announced Friday that it had approved finance for its first projects to help developing countries fight global warming, three weeks before a crucial world summit to ink a climate rescue pact. Finance is a divisive issue as rich and developing nations negotiate a global agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, and conference host France has said firm money commitments will be key to getting an agreement in December. The GCF said in a statement its board had...
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Hong Kong outlines ways to mitigate effects of climate change
2015-11-08 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Channel NewsAsia: The Hong Kong government has issued a report outlining ways to mitigate the effects of climate change in the city. The "Hong Kong Climate Change" report, the first of its kind, is a consolidation of the work done by both the public and private sectors to-date. It will be presented to the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP-21) later this month. Five years ago, the government put forward an ambitious target to reduce carbon intensity by 50-60 percent from 2005 levels - by 2020. And five years on,...
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Climate Change: Have We Already Gone Too Far?
2015-11-08 09:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change, President Obama said from the White House after vetoing the Keystone XL Pipeline bill which would have allowed a Canadian company to build a 1,179-mile pipeline to transport 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast. Frankly, continued the President, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. The Keystone rejection is an...
40 Marin County activists groups to join forces on Climate Change
2015-11-08 08:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: A coalition of 40 Marin County groups will unite with government officials and other leaders Monday in San Rafael to demand action to prevent additional climate change, organizers said on Saturday. The "Time to Lead on Climate" forum will be held at 7 p.m. in Angelico Hall at Dominican University, 20 Olive Ave., according to organizers. People can learn about approaches to stopping climate change and how individuals and communities can create and advocate for climate change prevention policies...
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France says Russia's Putin to attend Paris climate conference
2015-11-08 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Russian President Vladimir Putin will be joining the United Nations conference on climate change which starts in Paris on Nov. 30, the French foreign affairs ministry said on Sunday. "It is the United Nations that announced Putin would join," a spokesman for the French foreign ministry said. The conference, to be attended by more than 100 heads of state, aims to produce a new international agreement on climate change to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius to limit heat waves, downpours...
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