Tag: climate change
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Last Minute Deal Reached at UN Climate Talks, Falls Far Short of Expectations
By Paul Brown For the first time, all countries of the world have agreed to make contributions in cutting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the planet’s temperature rising above the 2°C danger limit previously agreed by politicians. [caption id="attachment_313213" align="alignnone" width="500"] With corporations—incluidng steel giant Arcelor Mittal, General Motors and Emirates—sponsoring the UN climate talks…
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Mass Walk-Out at UN Climate Talks Protests Lack of Progress
By Paul Brown It is first time in 19 years of tortuous annual negotiations over targets and timetables for saving the Earth’s climate from overheating that the non-governmental organizations have felt sufficiently frustrated to take such a step. [caption id="attachment_312963" align="alignnone" width="500"] Organizations frustrated with the pace and progress of the UN climate talks in…
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New Study Traces Two-Thirds of Industrial Carbon Emissions to Just 90 Institutions
New peer-reviewed research has found that just 90 entities are responsible for extracting most of the fossil fuels that have been burned over the past 150 years. These “carbon majors” include 50 investor-owned companies, such as ChevronTexaco and Exxon-Mobil, 31 state-owned companies, such as Saudi Aramco and Pemex, and nine government-run industries in the former…
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World’s Largest NGOs Demand Governments Choose Renewables Over Fossil Fuels at UN Climate Talks
Climate change is real; it’s happening at an alarming rate and human-activities, mainly the burning of fossil fuels, are causing it, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in September. The devastating human face of this tragedy has been on display in the Philippines this week, where one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded made landfall, costing…
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600,000+ Join Yeb Sano Signing #WeStandWithYou Petition Urging Action at UN Climate Talks
By Jamie Henn Civil society groups and young people joined Avaaz, 350.org and Filipino climate negotiator Yeb Saño at the UN Climate Talks today, to deliver more than 600,000 signatures from people around the world who are standing with the Philippines to demand progress here in Warsaw. “We stand here knowing that hundreds of thousands…