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What Leading Scientists Want You to Know About Today's Frightening Climate Report

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RICHARD SCHIFFMAN SEP 27 2013
Arctic sea ice on September 13, 2013, as measured by satellite microwave sensors and arrayed on NASA’s cloudless Blue Marble satellite imagery. How many years does it have left? (NASA)
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The polar icecaps are melting faster than we thought they would; seas are rising faster than we thought they would; extreme weather events are increasing. Have a nice day! That’s a less than scientifically rigorous summary of the findings of the Fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released this morning in Stockholm.

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Planning and Financing Low-Carbon, Livable Cities

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The World Bank News
The new initiative has the potential to improve the lives of over 700 million people in 300 developing country cities around the world.
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What do Kampala and Rio de Janeiro have in common? At first sight, the capital of landlocked Uganda and the megacity on the Brazilian coast may appear very different, but they share more than meets the eye. 

Both cities are taking action to manage the challenges that come with rapid urbanization and climate change by designing their own low-carbon development paths.  

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IPCC "conservative" on sea level rise

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IRIN NEWS
One of Palau's more than 200 islands threatened by sea level rise. Many low lying countries and small island states could disappear
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JOHANNESBURG, 8 October 2013 (IRIN) - The international scientific community’s new assessment of the estimated sea level rise caused by global warming is a significant development, but experts say the projections for higher sea levels in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC) assessment report (AR5) are still on the low side. The projections are of immediate concern to low-lying countries and small island states. 

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Shift to a new climate likely by mid-century - study

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Reuters
A Roma man cools himself in the impoverished outskirts of Ozd, northeastern Hungary, in the grip of a heat wave,
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OSLO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Billions of people could be living in regions where temperatures are hotter than their historical ranges by mid-century, creating a "new normal" that could force profound changes on nature and society, scientists said on Wednesday.

Temperatures in an average year would be hotter by 2047, give or take 14 years, than those in the warmest year from 1860-2005 if the greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, with the tropics the first affected area, a new index indicated.

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New global standard will measure and help cut food waste

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Megan Rowling
Leftovers pictured in the 'Auf da Muehle' restaurant in the western Austrian village of Soell, June 2, 2013. Waste food from the restaurant is collected and sent weekly to a biogas plant, where it is used to help produce electricity
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Work is to start on a new global standard for measuring food loss and waste, which experts hope will help reduce the significant amount of food that does not get eaten because it is spoiled or thrown away.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) said on Monday it would bring together representatives from academia, the private sector, government and civil society groups to develop an international “Food Loss and Waste Protocol”. The first version is due to be ready by mid- to late-2015.

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Renewable Power Generation - 2012 figures

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Gail Rajgor
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Special report. Part one: how much renewable electricity capacity was installed worldwide at the end of 2012, and which technologies were the most popular?

About the article: This special Renewable Energy Focus power generation focus previews REMIPEG's latest update, carried out in the first four months of 2013 by Lahmeyer International, and presents an overview for each renewable power sector, based on scenarios up to the end of 2012.

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“San Diego Housing Federation” Susan Riggs Tinsky

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