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DiCaprio: solving climate change is not about politics, its about survival
2014-09-24 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change is not about politics but about survival, said Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio in a speech to world and business leaders at the UN climate summit in New York on Tuesday. DiCaprio was confirmed as a UN climate representative earlier this month and has long been an active supporter of projects battling climate change and protecting the environment. He also took part in the Peoples Climate March in New York on Sunday, which saw over 300,000 people take to the streets of the city...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Talks About Climate Change at UN Summit
2014-09-24 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Only days after Emma Watson spoke at the United Nations about gender equality, fellow thespian Leonardo DiCaprio delivered an impassioned speech about climate change to guests at the UN Climate Summit 2014. As an actor I pretend for a living, he said. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction, as if pretending that climate change wasnt real would somehow make it go away. DiCaprio...
Leonardo DiCaprio tells UN summit 'climate change not a fiction'
2014-09-23 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Hollywood actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has told a UN climate change meeting in New York that climate change was not ''a fiction''. The star, who has been appointed as a United Nations representative on climate change, said there was ''evidence that accelerated climate change is here, right now''. ''Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying...we're seeing extreme weather events in the west Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented rates,'' he said. The aim of the meeting...
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Leonardo DiCaprio appointed UN climate change representative
2014-09-17 07:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Hollywood actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has been appointed as a United Nations representative on climate change. The UN secretary general Ban ki Moon said the actor's global stardom was the perfect match for the global challenge posed by climate change. Mr DiCaprio's first duty in his new role will be to address the opening of the climate summit later this month in New York.
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Leonardo DiCaprio joins UN climate campaign
2014-09-16 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Leonardo DiCaprio will address world leaders at a UN climate summit next week as the new "UN messenger of peace" with focus on climate change, the UN chief said Tuesday. The star of the hit films "Titanic" and "The Wolf of Wall Street" has been vocal on the need for action on global warming through his "Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation." "I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history -- it is a moment for action," DiCaprio said in a statement. "How we respond to...
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