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UN climate negotiations are unfair, study finds

Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center, Nov 20 2012, 2:59am CST

Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control. To get started, firstLogin with Facebook The United Nations climate negotiations are “antiquated” and stifle progr ...

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Gov. Brown calls for focus on climate change

Source: Mountain View Voice   |   May 23 2013, 4:20pm CDT

Gov. Jerry Brown today urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life. Brown, speaking to ...

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EU summit set to turn climate agenda upside down (News)

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 22 2013, 1:10am CDT

Europe’s plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today (22 May) if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen by Eu ...

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26 weeks ago


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"Poor countries cannot afford to send large delegations and their level of expertise usually remains significantly below that of wealthier countries. This limits poor countries' negotiating power and makes their participation in each session less effective."


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Universal and useless? The 2015 global climate agreement

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 21 2013, 3:51pm CDT

It looks as though everyone will be happy to sign the next global climate agreement, due in 2015. Why? Because there will be very little in the agreement that will force countries to act on climate change. The most recent climate negotiations in Germany ...

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3 days ago

Crying For Our Children Over Climate Change

Source: BlogHer  |   May 20 2013, 11:02am CDT

My husband and I read on Friday that the level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed 400 parts per million, a concentration not seen on Earth for millions of years. Carbon dioxide that's em ...

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3 days ago

FEATURE: Climate diplomacy gathers pace

Source: The Climate and Development Knowledge Network  |   May 20 2013, 9:47am CDT

Mairi Dupar CDKN’s Global Public Affairs Co-ordinator looks at how climate diplomacy can be used to drive change a the national and international levels. As the impacts of climate change begin to bite, climate chang ...

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3 days ago

Researchers work with Coca-Cola to transform home recycling

Source: PhysOrg.com  |   May 20 2013, 9:24am CDT

The study aims to understand why recycling rates are so low. More from Physics Forums - Earth May 14, 2013 Mar 01, 2013 Mar 19, 2013 Apr 12, 2012 Apr 12, 2013 Apr 30, 2013 2 hours ago 3 hours ago 4 hours ago 19 ...

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3 days ago

Deaths linked to warming climate may rise in Manhattan, say researchers

Source: News-Medical.net  |   May 20 2013, 4:02am CDT

Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. Researchers say deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the ...

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4 days ago

Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise 20 percent by the 2020s, study says

Source: The Verge  |   May 19 2013, 12:37pm CDT

A new study from The Earth Institute at Columbia University projects that heat-related fatalities could rise steeply in Manhattan by the 2020s as a result of a warming climate, and that in some worst-case scenarios, "by 90 percent o ...

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6 days ago

Taking It to the Tweets

Source: Ditch Plains Montauk New York  |   May 17 2013, 11:24pm CDT

Want to fight climate change from the comfort of your own couch? Al Gore has an app for that. In March, a Gore-backed advocacy organization, the Climate Reality Project, introduced Reality Drop, a web-bas ...

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