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Report: US pushing plan for individual climate goals at UN talks
2013-05-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A United States-led plan that would allow countries to set their own climate targets is gaining traction at United Nations climate change talks. The initiative amounts to scrapping the foundation of the Kyoto Protocol, which was struck in 1997 and set marks for reducing global emissions by 2012. The 160 nations involved in the Bonn, Germany, negotiations are looking to hammer out a plan to prevent a temperature rise of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2020. The next chance to strike an agreement would...
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Report: EU urged to develop climate adaptation strategy
2013-04-22 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The European Union will soon be urged to develop a comprehensive climate adaptation strategy, in a new paper warning extreme weather activity could lead to declining food production that could in turn create societal unrest and destabilise the bloc. According to Reuters, the European Commission is planning to publish a discussion paper in the coming weeks examining the impact of increased droughts and flooding across the continent. The paper, already seen by the news agency, reportedly calls...
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Report eyes Pacific Northwest climate change threats
2013-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Managers of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary say they`ll use a new report to try and prepare the resources they steward for the coming impacts of climate change, including increases in sea level; extreme weather events such as winds, waves, and storms; and coastal erosion from those events. The report also says the region may experience an increase in ocean acidity, rising water temperature, as well as more extreme weather patterns, including Pacific Northwest regional rainfall increases...
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Schwarzenegger: Federal Climate Report a 'Wake-Up Call'
2013-04-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: Arnold Schwarzenegger is giving a homework assignment to Beltway policymakers and the public that he hopes will spur more aggressive action on climate change. He penned a Los Angeles Times op-ed that touts the draft National Climate Assessment, a report warning of big temperature increases this century and that climate change is already harming the U.S. through heat waves, droughts and other changes. The first step for policymakers -- and for ordinary citizens too -- is to understand the situation...
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Australia: Climate change report a wake-up call: Combet
2013-04-03 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says a new report is a wake-up call to those who deny global warming is a problem. The Climate Commission's latest report warns that of extreme weather in Australia. The report, which has been backed by Australia's top climate scientists and science bodies, says that in some cases Australia's climate has shifted permanently. Mr Combet says the report underpins the reason why the Government has put a price on carbon. "These are things that people in...
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