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Stopgap measures: Pakistan fighting climate change with ad-hocism
2015-12-19 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tribune: At a time when nations have agreed to set a new path to low carbon emissions and climate resilient futures for their countries, Pakistans seriousness in tackling climate change can be gauged from the fact that many environment-related departments have been without permanent heads for years. Some crucial climate tasks of the Ministry of Climate Change (MOCC) are being dealt on ad-hoc basis, as many senior posts in its allied departments are either vacant or being held by officials from unrelated...
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Fighting Climate Change with Trees in Africa
2015-12-19 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: When world leaders gathered in Paris and successfully negotiated a pivotal international climate agreement, I was happy to see so many heads of state reaffirm the central role of trees and forest landscape restoration in fighting and adapting to climate change. As an African woman and the daughter of Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, the restoration agenda is very close to me. The movement my mother established has been mobilizing communities for close to 40 years...
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Fighting for the Health of Kids and the Future of Our Planet
2015-12-06 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This week Im in Paris for events around the international climate summit. Its an honor to be here at all, but its even better to be here representing the powerhouse grassroots movement thats moving America beyond coal. Here in Paris, theres a lot of buzz about coal, which is the number one source of the carbon pollution thats throwing our planet into chaos, both in the U.S. and internationally. As the New Yorker pointed out this week, everyone knows the coal industry is on the ropes, but...
Fighting Climate Change Nonsense
2015-12-06 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Recently, Congressman Lamar Smith has attacked scientists who dispute the global warming pause and threatened to subpoena emails as well as Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, their ultimate boss. Not surprisingly, many scientists, including those not involved in climate research, have rallied against such obvious intrusion, complaining about the chilling effect such interference would have on the open expression of ideas. Smith is hardly the only politician who has intervened in the scientific...
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Ontario's green energy botch-up a lesson for those fighting climate change
2015-12-06 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is tricky. Its easy to set targets and hard to do anything that might meet those targets. But harder still is the ability to accomplish any of this in a sensible way. Thats the lesson from Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk, who last week issued a scathing report on the provincial Liberal governments deeply flawed attempt to promote green energy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and others involved in the international efforts underway in Paris this week to curb...
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