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Five US states where climate change could be disastrous - BBC News (2 Additional Articles)
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Climate change is expected to
increase the frequency of extreme weather events around the world. One
US group has given the 50 states a report card, ranking the risk of
potential disasters and long-term dangerous changes. Most US states are
well-prepared for current natural disasters, but across the country,
states have done little to factor in how climate change ...
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Moroccan solar plant to bring energy to a million people - BBC News (2 Additional Articles)
... of Atlantic wind, mountain hydro power and scorching Saharan sun.
The king's plans are being enacted by environment minister Hakima el
Haite. She told me: "We are convinced that
climate change is an
opportunity for our country." As part of its national commitment to the
Paris climate conference, Morocco has pledged to decrease CO2 emissions
32% below business-as-usual by 2030, ...
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Canada's Alberta to introduce economy-wide carbon tax in 2017 | Reuters (2 Additional Articles)
... country's controversial oil sands, said on Sunday it will
implement an economy-wide tax on carbon emissions in 2017, addressing
long-standing criticism it is not doing enough to combat
climate change.
The provincial government estimated the plan, including a pledge to
phase out pollution from coal-fired electricity generation by 2030 and a
limit on emissions from the province's oil sands ...
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Prince Charles: Climate change failure is a factor behind Syrian crisis - Telegraph
... years ago that if we didn't tackle these issues you would see
ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater
difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of
climate change,
which means that people have to move. “And, in fact, there's very good
evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria,
funnily enough was a drought that lasted ...
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Paris Can Be a Key Step | Robert Stavins
... from a brief trip to Paris two days before the horrific events of
November 13th, which have shocked and saddened civilized people
everywhere. I was in Paris for discussions regarding
climate change
policy at OECD headquarters. Now, I'm preparing to return to Paris in
less than two weeks with my colleagues from the Harvard Project on
Climate Agreements (I've inserted a list of our forthcoming "p ...
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Peak District bird of prey project results 'disappointing' - BBC News
... and short-eared owl - had aimed to restore numbers to the levels
seen around the time of the designation. Numerous theories have been put
forward to explain the decline, including
climate change,
predation, disturbance and availability of food. However, Mr Thomas said
none had been proven. He said in the case of short-eared owls the
fluctuation in numbers was likely to be caused by the ...
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A Point of View: Has the Catholic Church really changed? - BBC News
... democracy and community as a way to get better shepherds for the
flock. Enter a religion defined by God's mercy and inclusion, with a
strong voice on issues like market excess and
climate change and
where men and women shared spiritual power. In a world under attack from
testosterone-driven fundamentalism - I could have written exactly those
same words before the events in Paris, but ...
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Weekend Edition: The week's best reads - BBC News
... Alex Marshall. While there have been some well known songs about
the environment in general, such as Michael Jackson's Earth Song
(pictured), there haven't been any big hits about
climate change.
Why not? Where are all the climate change songs? Image copyright Istock
"Very good article," commented Andrew Kev Mathyssen. Only 50% of people
who are HIV-positive are aware they have the ...
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India backs 2 degree global warming limit - French ministry source | Reuters (10 Additional Articles)
... PARIS Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi clearly backs the goal of limiting
global warming
to no more than 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels, a source
close to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Saturday.
Leaders from 195 nations will meet from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 in Paris to
try to nail down an agreement after the last global climate change
conference in Copenhagen in ...
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Our obsession with global warming will cost us dear - Telegraph
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Bangladesh fires up large-scale solar to boost power generation | Reuters (3 Additional Articles)
... by Syful Islam; editing by James Baer and Laurie Goering :;
Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of
Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news,
climate change, women's rights, trafficking and corruption. Visit www.trust.org/climate) ...
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Professor, wife convicted of fraud in $700,000 NASA contract - Yahoo News (4 Additional Articles)
... that Lehigh University engineering professor Yujie (yew-jee) Ding
and his wife, Yuliya (yewl-ya) Zotova, told NASA that their startup
company would develop a sensor to track
climate change. The
contract allowed some work to be done by Lehigh students, but
prosecutors say they instead did all the work. Defense lawyers argue
that the research found in the couple's Upper Saucon ...
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UN official: Over 120 leaders to attend Paris climate summit - Yahoo News (3 Additional Articles)
... UNITED NATIONS (AP) The attacks in Paris are affecting crucial
climate change
talks in the French capital starting later this month, but more than
120 world leaders strongly support the conference and have confirmed
they will attend, a senior U.N. official said Friday. Janos Pasztor, the
U.N. assistant secretary-general for climate change, told a news
conference that preparations and some ...
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Does Obama's Backtrack on Biofuels Undermine His Climate Change Message in Paris? | Paul Alexander
... Despite the terrorist attacks in Paris, French officials have announced the United Nations Convention on
Climate Change,
also taking place in Paris, will proceed as planned on November 30. The
conference is expected to produce a blueprint to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, the main cause of global warming. President Barack Obama will
be among the nearly 120 world leaders who are expected to ...
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Weekend Roundup: Paris Attacks Upend Concepts of War, Security and Alliances | Nathan Gardels
... agenda for global peace is not served by making Islam a
scapegoat." Former French environment minister Corinne Lepage looks
ahead in the coming weeks to a successful Paris summit on
climate change
as the best response to ISIS brutality. Christiana Figueres, executive
secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, hopes the
Paris summit will mean a farewell to fossil fuels. In ...
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Do we underestimate the power of plants and trees? - BBC News
... processing. It's necessary to write a symphony and do linear
algebra, but it's not the only solution for integrating information.
"We're living in a rapidly-changing environment -
global warming,
changes in precipitation, shifting populations. If we don't understand
how a plant senses and responds to its environment and then adapts, we
might find ourselves in a big problem 50 to 100 years ...
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Satellite will map Earth's plant glow - BBC News
... for Europe to have some kind of space-borne carbon monitoring
capability - a tool to check that countries are implementing policies to
reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases.
Esa officials are likely to ask member states at the agency's next big
ministerial gathering to fund CarbonSat's instrument through to a
prototype stage. Discussions will also be held in ...
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Anti-Apec protests take place in Manila - BBC News (2 Additional Articles)
... ground against protesters. They are also playing loud dance music
to drown out the unified voices of the protesters. World leaders at the
summit have been discussing issues such as
climate change and
regional economic co-operation. But the ongoing dispute among several
Asian countries who have overlapping claims in the resource-rich South
China Sea has also been in focus. US President ...
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Could This Be the Solution To Climate Change? | Renat Heuberger
... In order to halt
climate change, close to 100% of the
world's scientists agree that we must drastically reduce the level of
greenhouse gas emissions. But how? I explored some key areas to address
during my recent interview with the World Economic Forum and would like
to share them with you here: As one fair and efficient way to reduce the
level of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon markets ...
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Paris 2015: When a Historic Climate Change Agreement Isn't Enough | Thomas White
... In just over a week, representatives from 190 countries will gather for the 21st UN
Climate Change
Conference in Paris. As the world seems to be waking up to the colossal
threat of climate change, religious and world leaders from all over are
urging the international community to commit to real, measurable
action. With such high expectations, Paris 2015 aims to keep global
warming below 2 ...
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Shunning protocol, Obama interviews Alibaba billionaire Ma - Yahoo Finance (6 Additional Articles)
... bit." Ma smiled in response. He said Alibaba had been putting 0.3
percent of the company's total revenue for the past six years toward
encouraging young people to find solutions to
climate change and
other environmental issues. Ma added that he thought it was a "fantastic
idea" to invest in clean technology, referring to a recent conversation
in which Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) co-founder ...
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No new date set for Utah oil lease sale delayed by activists - Yahoo News (2 Additional Articles)
... emboldened by President Barack Obama's killing of the Keystone XL
oil pipeline this month say stopping oil and gas drilling on U.S.
public lands is their next goal in the fight against
climate change.
[nL1N1341NF] Activists last week also protested a lease sale in Denver,
but that sale went ahead as planned. About 20 percent of the oil and
about 14 percent of the natural gas produced in ...
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Big Antarctic ice melt scenarios 'not plausible' - BBC News (2 Additional Articles)
... to sea-level rise this century will be significant and
challenging, but that some nightmare scenarios are just not realistic.
Their new study models how the polar south will react if
greenhouse gases
rise at a medium to high rate. The most likely outcome is an input of
about 10cm to global waters by 2100. But the prospect of a 30cm-or-more
contribution - claimed by some previous research - ...
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Spending Review: Department-by-department cuts guide - BBC News
... offered through the new Universal Credit. Mr Duncan Smith is
reported to have threatened to resign over the issue but sources say the
dispute is now over. Department for Energy and
Climate Change -
budget cut agreed Image copyright Reuters Annual budget: 3.9bn Budget
increase since 2010: 14.3% Where 2010-2015 increases went: DECC is not a
protected department so you would expect its ...
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US, Cuba sign first environmental accord since thaw - Yahoo News (6 Additional Articles)
... habitats in the Gulf of Mexico and South Florida. Scientists from
the U.S. and across the world are gathering this week in Havana for the
10th Ocean Sciences Conference to discuss
climate change and
conservation. "This opens the door to collaborating on many, many fronts
so the so-called invisible lines of the Gulf (of Mexico) disappear,"
said Daniel Whittle, the EDF's senior director for ...
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Britain must move away from coal power stations minister - Yahoo News (2 Additional Articles)
... "It cannot be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to
be relying on polluting, carbon intensive 50-year-old coal-fired power
stations," Secretary of State for Energy and
Climate Change Amber
Rudd will say, according to embargoed excerpts of the speech she will
deliver at the Institution of Civil Engineers. Coal-fired power plants
provided around one third of Britain's ...
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UK's coal plants 'to be phased out within 10 years' - BBC News (2 Additional Articles)
... new energy system will be "competition-focused," according to
Amber Rudd Concerns have also been raised about the costs to consumers
of transforming the energy system to help tackle
climate change.
The government cut renewable energy subsidies earlier this year, which
led some to question the government's commitment to tackle climate
change. However, the BBC understands that the government ...
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Where are all the climate change songs? - BBC News (2 Additional Articles)
... Paul's rap from Love Song to the Earth. "Mama Earth is in a crazy
mess, it's time for us to do our best, from deep sea straight up to
Everest," he sings. Then he explains exactly why
climate change
is a problem, in a way that is at least more succinct than most
politicians manage: "Six billion people all want plentiness, some people
think this is harmless, but if we continue there'll only be ...
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Earth's underground water quantified - BBC News (2 Additional Articles)
... quickly renewed - on the scale of human lifetimes," explained
study leader Tom Gleeson from the University of Victoria. "And yet this
modern groundwater is also the most sensitive to
climate change
and to human contamination. So, it's a vital resource that we need to
manage better." Finite resource To quantify just how much water is
stored in the top 2km of the Earth's surface, Dr Gleeson's ...
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Spending review: Deal with seven more ministers including Iain Duncan Smith - BBC News
... "a matter for the Treasury," the source added, "agreement has
been reached between them on spending." The other departments to have
reached agreement with Mr Osborne are Energy and
Climate Change,
HM Revenue and Customs, the Cabinet Office, the Scotland Office and
Office of the Advocate General, the Wales Office and the Northern
Ireland Office. They bring to 11 the number of Whitehall ...
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El Nio strengthening, will be among biggest on record: WMO - Yahoo News (6 Additional Articles)
... disaster management campaigns to save lives and minimize economic
damage. "However, this event is playing out in uncharted territory. Our
planet has altered dramatically because of
climate change, the
general trend towards a warmer global ocean, the loss of Arctic sea ice
and of over a million sq km of summer snow cover in the northern
hemisphere," the WMO statement quoted Jarraud as saying. ...
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G20 sticks to goal to boost growth by extra 2 percent despite headwinds - Yahoo News (5 Additional Articles)
... said in a statement on Monday. In their final communique from a
summit in Turkey, the leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) also endorsed
plans to address the refugee crisis, taxation,
climate change,
cyber security and inequality, signs the grouping is increasingly
willing to widen its focus beyond hard economic issues. "We remain
committed to achieving our ambition to lift collective G20 GDP ...
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Unmitigated climate change to shrink global economy by 23 percent, researchers find - Yahoo News (3 Additional Articles)
... Berkeley, California (Reuters) When the world heats up, economies
around the globe will cool down. That's according to a new study which
predicts that rising temperatures due to
climate change will
wreak havoc on economic output. "Our best estimate is that the global
economy as a whole will be 23 percent smaller in 2100 than if we would
avoid climate change entirely," said co-author of the ...
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What's so smart about smart meters? - BBC News
... smart meters? Replace your old gas and electricity meters with
natty new digital ones and you could be helping to tackle "the biggest
single challenge that humankind has ever faced" -
global warming.
That's according to veteran environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt
anyway. And you thought smart meters were just about saving a few quid
on your gas and electricity bills? Think again. Not ...
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'High impacts' from globally stronger El Nino - BBC News
... says that the implications of the weather system in a warmer
world are uncertain. "This event is playing out in uncharted territory.
Our planet has altered dramatically because of
climate change,
the general trend towards a warmer global ocean, the loss of Arctic sea
ice and of over a million square km of summer snow cover in the northern
hemisphere," said Mr Jarraud. "So this naturally ...
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