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London, April 10, 2017: A group of leading climate and business experts today identified the year 2020 as a game changing opportunity to turn the tide on the devastating impacts of carbon emissions. Convened by Christiana Figueres - former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the group
Read MoreFrom Fiji to Fort Worth and Fortaleza to Freiburg UN to Spotlight Role of Arts and Culture in Climate Action From today, the UNFCCC is shining a weekly spotlight on arts and cultural responses to climate change and global efforts to take action—and we want to hear from you too about
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5th annual Plenary session of the IPBES, Bonn, Germany Global body on biodiversity science-policy to address synergies with climate change Efforts to stem global temperature rise may have negative impacts on biodiversity Protecting biodiversity can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation UN Climate secretariat commits to even closer collaboration
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Goal of limiting rise in average global temperatures to below 2C may not prevent ice-free Arctic, scientists warn "A polar bear drinks Arctic water in Svalbard, Norway. The animals’ habitat is threatened by climate change. Photograph: Barcroft" Arctic sea ice could vanish in summers this century even if governments achieve a core
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