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Prince Charles calls for focus on deforestation ahead of Paris climate talks
2015-10-29 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Prince of Wales has said tackling deforestation will be central to combating global warming as he confirmed he will attend next months crucial climate change summit. World leaders will gather in Paris in four weeks time to attend the COP21 conference and attempt to reach a new international agreement to help limit global warming to no more than 2C. Charles will address the delegates at the opening of the summit. But at a London meeting of foreign environment ministers, private firms and...
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IMF to Account for Climate Change in Economic Forecasting
2015-10-29 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The International Monetary Fund is to start factoring in climate change to its macroeconomic models from next year, Climate Home has learned. That means its much-cited World Economic Outlook could expose how moves to curb greenhouse gas emissions threaten growth in oil-exporting countries, for example. The Washington DC-based IMF is the world`s leading authority on financial stability, boasting significant influence in the 188 countries it counts as members. In May, it released a controversial...
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Russian media take climate cue from skeptical Putin
2015-10-29 12:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Wildfires crackled across Siberia this summer, turning skies ochre and sending up enough smoke from burning pines to blot out satellite views of the 400-mile-long Lake Baikal. To many climate scientists, the worsening fires are a consequence of Siberia getting hotter, the carbon unleashed from its burning forests and tundra only adding to man-made fossil fuel emissions. Siberia's wildfire season has lengthened in recent years and the 2015 blazes were among the biggest yet, caking the lake, the...
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The most vulnerable countries miss out on climate change knowledge
2015-10-29 08:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Collaborations on climate change research are divided into separate regions of the world with little knowledge exchange between them shows a new Danish-Brazilian study led by the University of Copenhagen. The most vulnerable countries of the world are largely disconnected from the production and flow of scientific knowledge on climate change, leaving their climate policymaking with little contextually relevant advice. The study calls for initiatives across private, governmental and non-governmental...
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India's Modi urges 'comprehensive' climate deal at African summit
2015-10-29 04:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Thursday for a "comprehensive and concrete" agreement on climate change in December, as he addressed African leaders at a major summit in New Delhi. Modi said no one had contributed less to global warming than India and Africa, warning that "the excess of (the) few cannot become the burden of many". He was speaking as world leaders prepare to meet in Paris in December to try to reach an agreement on tackling climate change, with the goal of capping...
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