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HOW DOES HILLARY MATCH UP WITH OTHER DEMS ON CLIMATE CHANGE?
CREDIT: AP Photo/Dave Martin, A worker mops the floor of the stage prior to the first Democratic presidential primary debate of the 2008 election hosted by the South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC., Thursday, April 26, 2007.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce her decision to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. While the crowded Republican field has led to questions of how to fit all serious candidates on a debate stage, Democrats have the opposite problem. It’s possible there will be no debates at all.
Read morePARIS CLIMATE SUMMIT: UN NEGOTIATIONS 'NEED REDESIGN'...
Image copyright Thinkstock, Image caption: Scientists say the climate summit in Paris is too focused on self interest
The UN climate negotiations are heading for failure and need a major redesign if they are to succeed, scientists say.
The pledges that individual countries are offering ahead of the Paris climate summit in December are too entrenched in self interest instead of being focused on a common goal.
The researchers say the science of cooperation is being ignored...
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PARIS CLIMATE CONFERENCE 2015: TRACKING WORLD WIDE COUNTRY CLIMATE PLEDGES...
Updated 8 October. Carbon Brief is maintaining a separate tracker of requests for climate finance.
Countries around the world have been submitting their pledges to the UN, setting out how far they intend to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
These promises, known as "intended nationally determined contributions", or INDCs, will determine the success of the deal that the UN hopes to sign off in Paris in December this year.
Read moreFEDS DECIDE THAT SUSTAINABILITY AND NUTRITION DON'T MIX...
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The heads of the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services say the guidelines shouldn't include environmental concerns.
USDA AND DHHS DECIDE NOT TO INCLUDE SUSTAINABILITY IN THE 2015 DIETARY GUIDELINES FOR AMERICANS...
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS ALONE IN CLIMATE DENIAL...
Amid internal calls for climate action, a study finds that Republicans are the only climate-denying conservative party in the world...
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POPE TO CONGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: 'I AM CONVINCED WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.'
Pope Francis, addressing climate change before a Congress dominated by Republicans -- more than half of whom deny its reality -- and Democrats who despair of doing anything about it, was a prophet of hope rather than doom.
Read moreMORGAN FREEMANS SHORT CLIMATE CHANGE VIDEO IS WORTHY OF IT'S OWN STORY... A MUST WATCH VIDEO...
Morgan Freeman narrates this hopeful, must-watch short film about the need to solve the climate change problem.
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WHAT THE HISTORIC SOUTH CAROLINA FLOODS CAN — AND CAN’T — TELL US ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE...
In 2013, after some controversy, South Carolina’s Department of Natural Resources released a report on risks the state could face due to climate change. One of those risks? “A predicted result of climate change is the increase in intense storm events causing greater water inputs in shorter periods of time, affecting flood frequency and duration,” the report noted.