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The whole world is breaking the law by ignoring climate change
2015-03-30 23:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The countries of the world are violating national and international law by polluting the atmosphere and heating up the planet, according to a group of respected lawyers. Regardless of what kind of climate deal the U.N. comes up with in Paris later this year, governments already have a legal responsibility to take action, the jurists argued today in London as they launched what theyre calling the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations. From a Guardian column by two legal experts:...
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Business Briefing: Netherlands Regrets Ignoring Earthquakes at Natgas Field
2015-03-03 02:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Dutch government apologized on Monday for ignoring the risks posed by earthquakes caused by production of natural gas in the northern province of Groningen. The apology follows an official report that found the government, together with Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil, had put profits before safety in exploiting the Groningen gas field, Europes largest. Last month, the government ordered production at the Groningen field to be cut by 16 percent for the first half of 2015. The government is...
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United Kingdom: Ed Miliband lambasts PM for 'ignoring advice on climate change'
2014-12-07 01:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: David Cameron has "abdicated responsibility" on the environment and left Britain trailing the world on climate change, Ed Miliband says today. Ahead of UN climate talks in Peru this week, the Labour leader, writing for The Independent on Sunday, launches a savage attack on the Prime Minister for turning the UK from being a world leader on environmental targets into a "laggard" because Mr Cameron believes it is no longer a "fashionable" subject and Conservative MPs are "flirting with climate change...
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Ignoring indigenous rights Amazon fuels global warming study
2014-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than half the carbon in the Amazon region could be released into the atmosphere unless indigenous land rights are protected, a new study said on Tuesday, as a UN climate conference got under way in Peru. Indigenous territories and protected natural areas across nine South American countries account for more than half the carbon stored in the Amazon, the study published in the journal Carbon Management reported. If this land is exploited for logging, mining or commercial farming, much of...
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China's growth-obsessed officials ignoring green policies: parliament
2014-10-30 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Local officials determined to make their economies bigger at any cost are ignoring Beijing's push to cut hazardous air pollution, opting instead to expand heavy industries and cut clean energy from the grid, a Chinese parliamentary report said. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, dispatched a team of inspectors to 10 cities and provinces from May to September to oversee the implementation of new pollution policies. The team found some local officials...
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