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NFU Appreciates Interagency Climate Change and Food Security Report, Suggests Contributors Also Examine Food System Consolidation and Climate Change
2015-10-09 15:45:43| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 9, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (October 9, 2015) National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson said the organization of 200,000 family farmers, ranchers and fishermen appreciated the recent interagency report on climate change and food security, noting that it will be helpful in making future policy decisions
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New Report Reveals The Severe Economic Impacts Climate Change Will Have In The South
2015-07-28 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Climate change is set to hit the Southeast United States and Texas hard. That`s the conclusion of a new report from the Risky Business Project, a nonprofit that focuses on the economic impacts of climate change. The report, which focused on 12 states - 11 states in the Southeastern United States plus Texas - found that the increased heat and humidity that these states are expected to experience as the climate changes will put the region`s recent manufacturing boom at risk. "While the Southeast...
GAO Report Sees Climate Risks to Army Corps Projects
2015-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Thousands of dams, levees, hurricane barriers and flood walls built across the country by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may be at risk from extreme weather and sea level rise driven by climate change, but the Army Corps has only just begun to assess how vulnerable they are and suffers from a lack of funding, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. The Army Corps may not be the most prominent of federal government agencies, but the dams, levees and other infrastructure it...
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Report Sees Major Food Shortage as Climate Change Danger
2015-07-17 01:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Insurance Journal: Climate change reports and studies abound lately - as you will note from a previous column - but one recent report gives potentially the starkest prediction yet of what impacts climate change could have. The report from Lloyd's of London, "Food System Shock: The insurance impacts of acute disruption to global food supply," isn't focused on climate change, but the author of the report calls it out as "an exacerbating factor." The report notes that a shock to the global food supply could trigger...
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G7 Report: Climate Change Can Fuel Political Upheaval Like Civil Wars
2015-06-26 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Climate change isn't just coming, it's already here and the world's leading economic powers need to be ready to act before a simmering problem turns into a boiling crisis. That's the conclusion of a new report prepared for the Group of Seven nations, which at their latest summit have pledged to eliminate fossil fuels by the end of the century. But many of the effects of warming are already baked in and the worst effects are expected to be felt in the developing world, where they can compound...
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