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CLIMATE CHANGE

Sensing opportunity, cities seek business backing for climate
change efforts. Cities around the world, including in developing
nations, are increasingly grasping the economic opportunities
generated by the need to tackle climate change and are pursuing
concrete partnerships with business, a climate research group
said.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-climatechange-cities-investment-idUKKCN1240S1


Insured crabs, tea help China's farmers avoid extreme weather
losses. Ma Rongda, a tea grower for nearly 30 years, knows how
badly his business can be affected by extreme weather. But when
heavy snow and cold hit his tea garden earlier this year, Ma was
not as worried as he used to be. “I bought insurance for my tea
plantations,” he explained. For an annual premium of some 7,000
yuan (815 pounds)…
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-insurance-climatechange-idUKKCN1230QM


Factbox: How are cities acting on climate change? The number of
cities reporting on their efforts to tackle global warming has
jumped 70 percent to 533 across 89 countries since a new climate
change agreement was adopted late last year, according to the
group gathering the data. London-based climate research group CDP
said more cities are now doing an inventory of their greenhouse
gas emissions…
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-climatechange-cities-investment-factb-idUKKCN1240SD

With EU backing, Paris climate deal clears last hurdle to taking
effect. The European Parliament approved the Paris accord to
fight climate change on Tuesday, tipping it over the threshold
needed for the global deal to enter into force, in what U.N.
chief Ban Ki-moon hailed as an historic vote. The Paris Agreement
reached by nearly 200 nations nearly one year ago will help guide
a radical shift of the world economy…
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-climatechange-eu-idUKKCN1240ZU 
http://www.reuters.com/article/climatechange-eu-idUSL5N1CA1PF 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/paris-climate-pact-set-to-enter-force-after-eu-greenlight/2016/10/04/3d991bd4-8a21-11e6-8cdc-4fbb1973b506_story.html


Hurricanes will worsen as planet warms and sea levels rise,
scientists warn. Some say Hurricane Matthew, which slammed Haiti
and is headed towards the US, is the sort of fierce lashing that
will be more common due to climate change.  Major storms such as
Hurricane Matthew, which has slammed into Haiti and is now headed
towards the US, will grow in menace as the world warms and sea
levels rise, scientists have warned.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/05/climate-change-hurricane-matthew-sea-level-rise?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=51b0eb43dc-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-51b0eb43dc-327747457


Al Gore to campaign for Clinton, hoping to galvanize young voters
on climate change. Former vice president Al Gore will start
campaigning for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to
individuals briefed on the plan, in an effort to mobilize young
voters who see climate change as a key issue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/10/04/al-gore-to-campaign-for-clinton-hoping-to-galvanize-young-voters-on-climate-change/?utm_term=.f691a1527fc8


Climate change deal is a turning point for world, Obama says.
History may judge today as a turning point for the planet in the
fight against climate change, President Obama said Wednesday, as
the United Nations reached a key threshold triggering the
implementation of the Paris climate agreement. With nations
representing more than 55% of world carbon emissions now having
signed on to the agreement…
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/05/climate-change-deal-turning-point-world-obama-says/91617814/


Disappearing Yosemite glacier becomes symbol of climate change.
When naturalist John Muir explored Lyell Glacier in Yosemite
National Park about 150 years ago, the river of ice stretched as
far as 10 football fields between the peaks of the Lyell Canyon,
a glacier one might expect to see in Alaska, not California.
Today, it’s a sliver of the natural feature Muir called a “living
glacier.”
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article104776131.html#storylink=cpy


California dairy industry voices concerns about new climate
change law. Law calls for 40 percent methane reduction by 2030.
California dairy industry voices concerns about new climate
change law. The California Dairy Campaign said local dairy
farmers are already struggling and increased costs due to more
regulations will put many out of business.
http://www.turlockjournal.com/section/14/article/32833/ 

Paris climate agreement to take effect Nov. 4. A landmark
agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4,
backed by a coalition of the world's largest polluters and small
island nations threatened by rising seas. U.N. Spokesman Farhan
Haq said the EU, Canada and Nepal are all expected to deposit
their instruments of ratification over the course of the day
Wednesday.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20161005_ap_9daff3d1c8c9413f99224d5057f0b096.html


'Crisis is a way of life': helping farmers cope with devastating
climate change. Changing weather patterns are having a dramatic
effect on the livelihoods of smallholders in the developing
world. So what can be done? Coffee farmers in Peru suffered heavy
losses in 2013 when 40% of the country’s coffee plantations were
adversely affected by coffee leaf rust. The disease, which
scientists blamed on climate change…
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/05/climate-change-smallholders-farmers-developing-world


GHGs from power plants, industrial sites fell in 2015.  A
decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants drove an
overall decline in emissions from industrial facilities in 2015,
according to new data released by U.S. EPA. Large stationary
sources in the power, oil and gas production, refining, iron and
steel mill, and landfill sectors reported an overall decline in
greenhouse gases of 4.9 percent from 2014.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/05/stories/1060043855 

Past climate, not current changes, key to some mammal
communities. There's plenty of research into the predicted effect
of climate change on the world's animal populations, but a group
of researchers from Arizona State University have tried to turn
this thought process on its head. Their premise was simple: What
sort of effects have changing climates had on animal populations
in the past?
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/05/stories/1060043850 

Hansen study finds meeting Paris Agreement could cost trillions.
The world is now hotter than it's been in 115,000 years, and
reversing this trend could be a costly operation. According to a
study from a 12-member team of researchers, including former NASA
scientist James Hansen, the temperature in 2016 will probably be
1.25 degrees Celsius more than average temperatures during
preindustrial times.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/05/stories/1060043840 

Legal experts: Climate case won't turn on constitutional
questions. The constitutionality of the Clean Power Plan tends to
generate headlines and hot takes. But another matter is more
likely to prove decisive in the fight over President Obama's
signature environmental law: the extent of U.S. EPA's
carbon-cutting authority. That conclusion, delivered by a panel
of legal experts…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/05/stories/1060043853 

DROUGHT

Official: California water conservation slipping. Water
conservation continues to slip in drought-stricken California
after officials lifted mandatory cutbacks, officials said ahead
of formally releasing the figures on Wednesday. The State Water
Resources Control Board in Sacramento is expected reveal the
amount of water Californian's saved statewide in August. "We're
concerned that conservation levels are continuing to drop off as
we enter a sixth year of exceptional drought…
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CA_CALIFORNIA_DROUGHT_CAOL-?SITE=CASON&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-10-05-00-30-15


BLOGS

Power plant, industrial emissions continue to fall, EPA reports.
Emissions of greenhouse gases from the country’s power plants and
other industrial facilities continue to fall, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency reported Tuesday. Within the
power industry, the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gases,
emissions last year were down 6 percent from 2014 and 11 percent
since 2011.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/10/04/power-plant-industrial-emissions-continue-to-fall-epa-reports/?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=51b0eb43dc-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-51b0eb43dc-327747457
 

Another Environmental Epic Fail.  As everyone who follows the
dreary world of environmental politics knows, the great concern
these days is with “environmental justice,” which is exactly what
you think it is—an attempted fusing of the Edmund Pettis Bridge
with the Cuyahoga River fire. So it is with a great deal of
amusement that I see a new report from USC, UC Berkeley and
Occidental College casts doubt on the…
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/10/another-environmental-epic-fail.php



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