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Climate Change Will Make Bad Borrowers of Govts, S&P Says
2015-11-27 05:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Thailands credit rating downgraded by two levels. Dominican Republic lowered one grade. These are not real news headlines yet, but could be, according to scenarios outlined by Standard & Poors. The ratings company has concluded after a study that if the damage to the environment continues unabated, there is no way global economic activity, trade or national budgets will stay unaffected. In other words, climate change will cause credit-rating downgrades. Using data from reinsurance company...
Cities vs. climate change: How Vancouver aims to lead the fight
2015-11-27 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: With the Paris climate change summit just days away, dozens of mayors from around the world are gearing up to represent their municipalities at the global roundtable. The meeting is largely considered the last chance for world leaders to agree on a set of concrete terms to cap global warming at 2 C above pre-industrial levels. After that, experts fear, the consequences will be irreversible. Among the leaders will be Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who has said he wants his city to be the...
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Climate change consequences for people in Canada's Arctic deserves more attention, says researcher
2015-11-27 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The polar bear has become somewhat of an international symbol for the consequences of climate change but some researchers say more work needs to be done on how the disappearing sea ice affects people who call the Arctic home. Climate change is changing the Arctic landscape faster than other regions in fact the change is happening "almost 40 times faster than the models had predicted," said Eric Solomon, director of Arctic Programs at the Vancouver Aquarium. Solomon said Canadians need to...
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Pope Urges Deal on Climate Change in Paris to Avoid Catastrophe
2015-11-26 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Pope Francis urged world leaders preparing to meet at a United Nations conference on climate change to agree an accord that transforms current development models and focuses on the need to adopt low-carbon energy systems. Negotiators meeting in Paris next week have a political and economic obligation to rethink and correct the dysfunctions and distortions of the current development model, the pontiff said in a speech at the UN Environment Programme headquarters in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi....
Conserve Diverse Breeds to Adapt to Climate Change, FAO Urges
2015-11-26 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), FAO has released new guidelines to assist countries in better conserving and sustainably using genetic resources in times of climate change.
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