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Pakistan: Climate change aggravate disease burden, warns minister
2015-05-11 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dawn: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan has cautioned that Pakistans disease burden and its overall impact on socioeconomic development gains made in recent years will escalate. This, he added, would lead to rise in avoidable deaths in coming years because of the rapidly changing and erratic climate. Most of such deaths will be in urban areas like, among others, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Peshawar, where living standard and health...
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California Gov. Brown toughens climate change goal
2015-05-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desert Sun: Gov. Jerry Brown has been busy of late pushing California forward on a number of environmental fronts. The governor -- who began his new term challenging the state to ramp up to where it gets 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in the next 15 years -- preempted Wednesdays adoption of rules for his drought-response mandate with another initiative in recent days related to climate change. Last weeks executive order sets a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent...
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Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict
2015-05-09 05:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes. But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to an increasingly intractable conflict, its underlying causes in a fatal convergence of energy, climate and economic factors remain little understood. The UN high commissioner for human rights has offered a conservative under-estimate of the death...
Alberta election could break climate change logjam in Canada
2015-05-09 02:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Canada's climate change conversation is about to take a dramatic turn with the election of Alberta's new NDP premier. Premier-designate Rachel Notley signalled on election night the province's environmental image will get a makeover. "To build Canada's energy sector so that we build bridges and we open markets instead of having a black eye," she told cheering supporters. Notley's election comes at a time when climate change has become a global political hot potato. World leaders are gearing...
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India pledges to fight climate change but falls short of stating emissions cap
2015-05-08 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Indias prime minister has stressed his commitment to finding a global solution to climate change, but declined to reveal if his government was willing to specify an emissions peak this year. Speaking to Time magazine Modi said he was acutely conscious and aware of his responsibility to help guide the world towards a deal on curbing greenhouse gases in Paris this December. If there is one part of the world which can provide natural leadership on this particular cause, it is this part of...
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