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Leonardo DiCaprio addresses world leaders on climate change: 'The world is watching'
2016-04-23 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Leonardo DiCaprio has told leaders "the world is watching" as they sign an historic agreement to combat climate change. The actor, who used his Oscar acceptance speech in February to highlight the seriousness of climate change, addressed world leaders at the UN headquarters in New York before they signed the Paris Agreement, a treaty which requires them to cut carbon emissions. "Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong," DiCaprio said. "After...
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Fred Krupp: Five ways can deliver on promise of Paris climate talks
2016-04-22 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last December, world leaders convened in Paris in an extraordinary effort to find a global solution for reducing destructive carbon emissions the indisputable driver of climate change and to prevent our planet from a destructive 2C increase in global temperatures. Today, leaders gather again this time at the United Nations in New York to sign the landmark agreement. Two degrees may not sound like a major threat, or even a difficult goal. But limiting average temperature increase could...
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Environmental art is on the rise with little help from Leonardo DiCaprio
2016-03-26 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The image looks like a scene from a science fiction movie about an alien landscape on another planet: a 28-by-24-foot LED wall depicting an impressive, circular array of giant mirrors surrounding a tower lit at the top. But this is very much an earthly construct. Its an artwork reflecting the emergence of renewable energy, : a digital simulation of a solar power plant producing electricity in the Nevada desert. The artwork, called Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada) 2014, was created by Irish artist...
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Leo DiCaprio attacks Republican presidential candidates on climate change
2016-03-24 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leonardo DiCaprio used a Japanese press conference for the Oscar-winning western The Revenant to launch a thinly veiled attack on Donald Trump and other Republican candidates for the US presidency who deny climate change, reports AFP. The actor and environmentalist, in Tokyo to promote the local release of Alejandro G Iárritus 19th century frontier epic, said the next leader of the worlds most powerful nation should not be someone who refused to listen to reason. We should not have a candidate...
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DiCaprio criticizes climate change deniers running for president
2016-03-24 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fresh from his Oscar-winning role in "The Revenant," Leonardo DiCaprio suggested Wednesday that his upcoming documentary on climate change could help raise awareness about a phenomenon that some U.S. presidential candidates reject. DiCaprio said one of the collaborators for the film to be released before the November election was Fisher Stevens, a producer of the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" about dolphin-killing in the small Japanese town of Taiji. "We`ve been travelling around...
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