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Fossil fuel companies risk plague of 'asbestos' lawsuits as tide turns on climate change
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Oil, gas and coal companies face the mounting risk of legal damages for alleged climate abuse as global leaders signal an end to business-as-usual and draw up sweeping plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Bank of America has warned. nvestors in the City are increasingly concerned that fossil fuel groups and their insurers are on the wrong side of a powerful historical shift and could be swamped with exhorbitant class-action lawsuits along the lines of tobacco and asbestos litigation in the...
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Climate envoys should try harder after Paris, poorer nations say
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The global push to fight climate change must intensify after a major meeting in Paris, said poorer nations on Tuesday, who are reconciled to disappointment in any upcoming deal. Climate negotiators should not abandon hope of limiting global temperatures rises to below 1.5 degrees even if targets on the table for Paris are less ambitious, they said. Their comments came three days before the United Nations publishes a report expected to show current plans - Intended Nationally Determined Contributions...
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This could be worst climate crisis in world right now
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: On Monday afternoon, Indonesian President Joko Widodo cut short a visit to the United States and headed home to oversee efforts to extinguish a rash of epic wildfires that have engulfed his country. Joko was in Washington, DC, for a photo op with President Barack Obama, to talk about climate change, and to promote Indonesia as a choice venue for foreign investors. His trip was also supposed to include a stopover in San Francisco for meetings with tech industry executives. But Joko's decision to...
Civil society activists cold-shouldered at climate talks
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A former UN Secretary-General once paid a supreme compliment to the work of civil society groups when he described non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as the world's "third super power" -- presumably ranking behind the United States and Russia. Still, despite the political clout they wield, NGOs continue to be barred from the Secretariat building in New York every year during the two-week annual high-level summit meeting of world leaders, come September. The U.N.-issued NGO ground pass, security...
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Climate change major security threat but old & bold don't get it
2015-10-28 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NEWS.com.au: CLIMATE change was a sleeper issue for ageing defence brass because potential security impacts were 20 to 30 years away according to former Chief of Defence retired Admiral Chris Barrie. Speaking at a Climate Security summit at the Australian Defence Force Academy Admiral Barrie, who is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University, said older military leaders tended to downplay the potential risk from climate change. "I think there are a lot of people in the 40-year-old and...
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