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IPCC climate report means cleantech an attractive proposition for any investor
2014-04-12 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A clean revolution of renewable energy could provide the global economy with a major boost while also preventing devastating climate change, according to a coalition of business and government leaders. Commenting ahead of the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) new report on how global warming can be mitigated, the Climate Group says the need for a rapid transition to clean energy is now clear. The IPCCs report is expected to say there is still time to prevent runaway...
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Every comma scrutinized as UN climate report balances science and politics
2014-04-12 11:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: After racing against the clock in an all-night session, the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change was putting the final touches Saturday on a scientific guide to help governments, industries and regular people take action to stop global warming from reaching dangerous levels. As always when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopts one of its high-profile reports, the week-long talks in Berlin were slowed by wrangling between scientists and governments over which words, charts and tables...
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U.N. climate report stops short of clear economic case for action
2014-04-10 17:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A U.N. report about ways to fix global warming due on Sunday is likely to disappoint investors seeking clear-cut economic calculations about the benefits and costs of curbing rising greenhouse gas emissions. Authors say the report stops short of an economic bottom line since it is hard to put a value, for instance, on human lives lost to extreme weather or on risks of a faster melt of Greenland's ice sheet that would push up sea levels. The United States and other governments, at talks in Berlin,...
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IPCC report says climate change is bad news for crops
2014-04-10 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: When it comes to projections of future global warming, most people are more interested in concrete impacts than abstract figures like average global temperature. That sort of information is contained in the second section of the latest IPCC report, which was just recently released. Among the things potentially impacted by climate change, the agricultural sector is of obvious relevance to those of us who eat food. (That includes you, Soylent fans.) Given that population growth and economic progress...
IPCC report: Climate change threatens Chile
2014-04-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Santiago Times: Environmental experts, international report says small-scale farmers biggest losers in increasingly arid future which places biodiversity at risk. Both Chiles smallholder farmers and endemic species face major challenges over coming decades due to changing global weather patterns, which are likely to place increasing pressure on the countrys already stressed fresh water resources. These are the key takeaways from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report...
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