je.st
news
Tag: governments
UN Urges Governments To Triple Use of Renewables or Face Climate Catastrophe
2014-04-13 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IB Times: The use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power will have to be tripled to avoid a potentially devastating 4C-5C rise in global temperatures, the UN has warned. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, to be released in Berlin today, will claim that global greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade were the "highest in human history". In order to prevent temperatures rising by more than 2C, global greenhouse gas levels will have to be slashed by up to...
Tags: face
triple
climate
governments
Governments approve text of UN climate report
2014-04-12 06:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Government representatives on Saturday approved a UN report listing options for rolling back emissions from greenhouse gases, NGOs following the proceedings said. In a six-day wrangle, they hammered out the summary of a vast report on choices to tackle the source of climate change, the sources said. Compiled by more than 200 scientists over four years, the report is the third piece in an overview by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is only the fifth...
Tags: text
report
climate
approve
British and Spanish Governments in dispute over Gibralter waters
2014-04-03 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The UK and Spanish Governments have summoned each other's ambassadors following the entry of Spanish research vessel Ángeles Albario into the disputed waters off the coast of Gibralter, which both countries claim to be their territory.
Tags: spanish
british
waters
governments
U.N. climate panel: Governments, businesses need to take action now against growing risks
2014-03-31 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The world's leading environmental scientists told policymakers and business leaders Sunday that they must invest more to cope with climate change's immediate effects and hedge against its most dire potential, even as they work to slow the emissions fueling global warming. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that climate change is already hurting the poor, wreaking havoc on the infrastructure of coastal cities, lowering crop yields, endangering various plant and animal species,...
Tags: action
growing
panel
businesses
Climate change report: IPCC finds governments unprepared
2014-03-30 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Before the press conference begins at 9am local time (about 25 minutes from now), we can take a look at what we already know. There have been several drafts of the report leaked already, giving fair indication of the warnings to come from the IPCC. According to the most recent leaked draft, the effects of climate change are already being felt "on all continents and across the oceans." An already approved section reveals Arctic ecosystems and warm water coral reefs are already experiencing "irreversible...
Tags: report
change
finds
climate
Sites : [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] next »