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Thematic Session on Climate Science
25 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International

The UN Climate Summit brought together a hundred Heads of Governments, alongside the financial world, business and civil societies to give new momentum to the search for answers to the challenges posed by climate change.

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Activists call on Obama to end war, poverty & address climate change
22 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States

By Joy First
Washington, DC - On 23 September 2014, hundreds of people are expected to gather at 10 am in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Ave. for a rally to protest war, poverty and environmental destruction. This demonstration is being organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) and is part of Campaign Nonviolence with over 220 demonstrations occurring in every state in the country during the week of 21-27 September.

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Turn Left for Earth
21 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International, United States

By David Swanson
I appreciate that there's more happening than just a march for the climate today on the International Day of Peace and I get the idea that keeping the safe and obedient march-to-nowhere separate from protests actually at the United Nations where our corporate overlords are determining the rate of the earth's demise is intended to please all of the people some of the time, but I can't help wishing that the march would just turn left instead of right when it reaches 42nd Street, in order to march to the United Nations rather than to nowhere.

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WMO: Still Time to Act on Climate Change
19 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International

Need for Action on Greenhouse Gases Backed by Scientific Evidence
Geneva, 19 September 2014 (WMO)
There is still a window of opportunity to prevent dangerous climate change and preserve the planet for future generations. But it is closing fast, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which says that the urgent need to cut greenhouse gases is based on overwhelming scientific evidence.

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Current greenhouse gas control insufficient
18 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International, Ireland

An Taisce is calling on the world’s leaders to agree and enforce a cap on global Cumulative Total Emissions at the UN summit in New York next week. Climate science is now clear that Cumulative Total Emissions (CTE) is the essential measure that must be used when calculating the needed reductions—not delayed percentage targets as presently used. Cumulative Total Emissions (CTE) are critical to climate action that ensures local and national efforts are not undermined anywhere now or in the future.

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