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<font size="+1"><i>May 22, 2018</i></font><br>
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Nexus News]</a><br>
Heat Pounds Karachi: Temperatures hit 111 degrees F in Karachi
Monday as the death toll from the weekend's heat wave continues to
climb. Private organizations, including the foundations that run the
city's morgue and ambulance service, confirmed to news outlets
Tuesday that 65 people have died in recent days. The Pakistani
government did not confirm the figures, but issued warnings to the
city's 15 million residents - most of whom are fasting for Ramadan
and experiencing simultaneous power outages - to take precautions. A
heat wave killed over 1,000 people in the megacity in 2015.<span
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[video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/21/2018-hurricane-season-a-preview/">2018
Hurricane Season: A Preview</a></b><br>
May 21, 2018<br>
Hurricane Season starting soon, while many areas will still be
recovering from last year's record destruction. What's the
forecast?<br>
Video <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5e6zkMTRg">Peter Jacobs on
Hurricane Season 2018</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/ah5e6zkMTRg">https://youtu.be/ah5e6zkMTRg</a><br>
Peter Jacobs, above, is a PhD student and researcher at George
Mason University Department of Environmental Science and Policy, and
with climate comms ace John Cook, whips up the Evidence Squared
podcast.<br>
Market Watch:<br>
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, which kicks off June 1, is
expected to bring at least 14 named storms, according to
researchers, putting it above the long-term average of 11 recorded
between 1950 and the present day.<br>
Colorado State University is forecasting 14 named storms, including
seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes. North Carolina State
University is forecasting 14 to 18 named storms, seven of which are
expected to grow to hurricane strength, and three to five of which
may become major hurricanes, defined as Category 3 or higher.<br>
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30 and
includes the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of
Mexico. The Pacific season, which covers the Eastern Pacific basin,
started on May 15 and also runs through Nov. 30.<br>
Last week, the first tropical depression of the season formed far
from the west coast of Mexico, but eventually dissipated, according
to the Weather Network. The National Hurricane Center is urging
coastal residents to start preparations now for an active season.<br>
There were 18 named storms in the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season,
according to the NHC, in what was one of the deadliest - and
costliest - seasons ever. Of that total, 10 became hurricanes, and
six of those were Category 3 storms or higher.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/21/2018-hurricane-season-a-preview/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/05/21/2018-hurricane-season-a-preview/</a><br>
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[video interview]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/baagXcDijKs"><b>The
Reasons Behind Puerto Rico's Blackout</b> </a> | FRONTLINE + NPR<br>
May 1, 2018<br>
FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the federal response to Hurricane
Maria -- and uncover a government relief effort in chaos, struggling
with key contracts, basic supplies and its own workforce.<br>
Especially in contrast to the government's response to Hurricanes
Harvey and Irma on the U.S. mainland. <br>
In the above excerpt from "Blackout in Puerto Rico," NPR's Laura
Sullivan, the documentary's correspondent, reports that just over a
week after the storms hit, the federal government had three times as
many people on the ground in Texas, and twice as many in Florida, as
it did in Puerto Rico. <br>
And while Puerto Rico's hiring of Whitefish, a company with no
experience restoring power grids, caused controversy, few knew that
the federal government had taken a similar step. <br>
"All of a sudden, about the eighth day in, the administration asked
us to be able to step up and to be able to take on this mission of
grid repair," said Lt. Gen Todd Semonite, Chief Engineer of the Army
Corps of Engineers, about his agency's effort to restore power. "But
it is not something that we even planned on doing in any kind of a
disaster. We don't do grid repair., usually, normally, doctrinally
…"<br>
In the above excerpt, Sullivan talks with Semonite about how the
Army Corps went on to contract with a company that, while
experienced in building power plants, had no experience putting
power grids back together. She also speaks with questions FEMA's
Michael Byrne, the agency's coordinating officer for Puerto Rico,
who defends the federal response. <br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/sBeivGA2b6E">Powering
Puerto Rico</a></b> | FRONTLINE<br>
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/sBeivGA2b6E">https://youtu.be/sBeivGA2b6E</a><br>
Meet Oscar Carrion, a self-taught electrician who's putting his life
on the line to restore power in his community. <br>
Watch "Blackout in Puerto Rico" starting May 1st, 2018: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://to.pbs.org/2Ha8leY">https://to.pbs.org/2Ha8leY</a><br>
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[Western Journal]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.westernjournal.com/scientist-happy-she-destroyed-her-own-career-fighting-trump-on-climate-change/">Scientist
Happy She Destroyed Her Own Career Fighting Trump on Climate
Change</a></b><br>
By Michael Bastasch<br>
May 21, 2018<br>
A University of Colorado research scientist said she was "extremely
happy" the National Park Service released a study on sea level rise
even though it "probably destroyed" her career doing agency
research.<br>
Researcher Maria Caffrey refused to accept corrections from the NPS
that supposedly got rid of words linking global warming to human
activity.<br>
The news site Reveal reported on the study's drafting in April.<br>
"The fight probably destroyed my career with the [NPS] but it will
be worth it if we can uphold the truth and ensure that scientific
integrity of other scientists won't be challenged so easily in the
future," Caffrey told Reveal.<br>
Reveal went through 2,000 pages of draft reports to find "a park
service official crossed out the word 'anthropogenic,' the term for
people's impact on nature, in five places" and "[t]hree references
to 'human activities' causing climate change also were removed."<br>
Critics held up Caffrey's report as an example of the Trump
administration censoring science, but Reveal's reporting shows the
edits were largely made by a career public affairs official, not a
political appointee.<br>
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke denied changing "a comma" in the
study, which presented catastrophic scenarios of sea level rise at
national parks at monuments around the country.<br>
Caffrey said her study would help officials plan for future climate
change...<br>
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Critics held up Caffrey's report as an example of the Trump
administration censoring science, but Reveal's reporting shows the
edits were largely made by a career public affairs official, not a
political appointee.<br>
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke denied changing "a comma" in the
study, which presented catastrophic scenarios of sea level rise at
national parks at monuments around the country.<br>
Caffrey said her study would help officials plan for future climate
change.<br>
More at: <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.westernjournal.com/scientist-happy-she-destroyed-her-own-career-fighting-trump-on-climate-change/">https://www.westernjournal.com/scientist-happy-she-destroyed-her-own-career-fighting-trump-on-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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[Weather.com]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.com/news/news/2018-05-21-del-mar-california-considers-managed-retreat">In
Del Mar, a 'Planned Retreat' May Be Only Option as Seas Rise</a></b><br>
There aren't many easy answers in the Southern California town of
Del Mar, where city leaders and residents are trying to figure out a
way to combat rising seas in an area where million-dollar homes line
the coast.<br>
One idea being floated in low-lying areas of the town is a "planned
retreat," which would eventually tear down structures most
threatened by rising sea levels, according to the Los Angeles Times.
If this plan were put into place, many residents who live along Del
Mar's most sought-after real estate would have to move.<br>
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But owners of the 600 or so homes located within a few feet of sea
level say there has to be another way. As meetings continue and city
leaders attempt to strike the right balance between preparing the
coast for sea level rise and working with coastal residents on the
best plan, some locals say these discussions alone are hurting their
property values.<br>
"The conversations have done damage enough," local real estate agent
Csilla Crouch told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "Please delete this
concept entirely."<br>
The Del Mar City Council planned to meet again on Monday to further
discuss the "planned retreat," which also involves gradually
removing sea walls, roads and public buildings ahead of the rising
seas, the L.A. Times added. As for the residents who have put major
home-improvement projects on hold and fear for their home values if
the plan gains traction, they're already preparing their list of
demands if retreat becomes reality.<br>
"They better come along with a big heavy bucket of money," Beach
Colony resident Herb Montgomery told the L.A. Times when asked what
would be needed to get him and his wife out of their home. "People
should be remunerated for the investments they made."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/news/news/2018-05-21-del-mar-california-considers-managed-retreat">https://weather.com/news/news/2018-05-21-del-mar-california-considers-managed-retreat</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/05/21/Global-warming-linked-with-rising-antibiotic-resistance/5821526923808/">Global
warming linked with rising antibiotic resistance</a></b><br>
By Brooks Hays <br>
May 21 (UPI) -- New research suggests rising temperatures are
encouraging antibiotic resistance in cities across the United
States.<br>
Until now, health researchers assumed antibiotic resistance was
primarily the result of overprescription and overuse. But a new
study suggests climate change is also to blame.<br>
MacFadden and his colleagues analyzed instances of antibiotic
resistance to three common bacterial strains, E. coli, K. pneumoniae
and S. aureus, as reported by hospitals across the country.<br>
When researchers compared the data with weather patterns, their
analysis -- detailed in the journal Nature Climate Change --
revealed a correlation between local temperature increases,
population densities and antibiotic resistance. Scientists
acknowledged that additional research will be necessary to confirm a
cause-and-effect relationship....<br>
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"The bottom line is that our findings highlight a dire need to
invest more research efforts into improving our understanding of the
interconnectedness of infectious disease, medicine and our changing
environment," said John Brownstein, a professor of pediatrics at
HMS.<br>
<font size="-1">More at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/05/21/Global-warming-linked-with-rising-antibiotic-resistance/5821526923808/">https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/05/21/Global-warming-linked-with-rising-antibiotic-resistance/5821526923808/</a></font><br>
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[climate-changed]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/carmakers-tell-white-house-that-climate-change-is-real-in-letter">'Climate
Change Is Real,' Carmakers Tell White House in Letter</a></b><br>
Automakers urged the White House to cooperate with California
officials in a coming rewrite of vehicle efficiency standards,
saying "climate change is real."<br>
The plea came in a May 3 letter to the White House's Office of
Management and Budget from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers,
the industry's leading trade group. It said carmakers "strongly
support" continued alignment between federal mileage standards and
those set by California. General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co., Daimler
AG and nine other carmakers are members of the Alliance...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/carmakers-tell-white-house-that-climate-change-is-real-in-letter">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/carmakers-tell-white-house-that-climate-change-is-real-in-letter</a><br>
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<br>
[Bill McKibben in RollingStone]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mckibben-hit-fossil-fuels-where-it-hurts-the-bottom-line-w520337">Hit
Fossil Fuels Where It Hurts – the Bottom Line</a></b><br>
The divestment movement is having a big impact, and holdouts may be
missing their one great chance to really change the world<br>
By Bill McKibben<br>
An envelope arrived from the New York State Comptroller's office the
other day, with a check inside for $108. Apparently I'd left it
sitting in some bank account years ago, and now it was being
returned. Free money is good fun, and where we live $108 buys you
the best dinner in town, which my wife and I enjoyed, raising a
small toast to the efficiency of the Empire State's comptroller,
Thomas DiNapoli.<br>
But only a small toast. Because as smoothly as DiNapoli seems to
perform the basic duties of his office, he has so far whiffed on the
one great chance he'll ever have to really affect the world. He's
continuing to invest billions of pension dollars in big oil, even as
the industry refuses to grapple seriously with global warming.
Because of his high-profile insistence on "engagement" with the
industry, he's become a stand-in for a thousand other political
"leaders" who can't quite summon the nerve necessary to break with
the fossil-fuel industry, even when science and economics are making
it clear where the future must lie. It's so much easier to keep
doing what you've always done – but at this point inertia is the
planet's most powerful enemy, and DiNapoli is threatening to become
inertia's avatar.<br>
<br>
The movement for fossil-fuel divestment was partly born in the pages
of this magazine six years ago, when an essay of mine went
unexpectedly viral. That piece showed the new math of climate
change: The big oil, gas and coal producers had reserves in the
ground that contained five times the carbon any scientist said we
could burn and stay below the catastrophic temperature rises that
the planet's governments had pledged to avoid. That is, the business
plans of Exxon and Chevron and Shell and the rest committed them to
wrecking the planet – simple math, simple physics and simple
morality. If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit
from the wreckage.<br>
<br>
That argument was enough to get the ball rolling. Students at
hundreds of campuses around the world launched divestment campaigns
that echoed the one against South African apartheid a generation
ago. The first school to divest was tiny Unity College in Maine,
which pulled its $13 million endowment in November 2012. By this
winter, the University of California system, biggest in the
hemisphere, had joined, along with a third of the universities in
the U.K., and the World Council of Churches, and dozens of Christian
denominations and Catholic diocese, as well as many of the biggest
foundations on the planet. Even the Rockefeller heirs, who trace
their fortune to the original oil baron, have sold their shares. By
now endowments and portfolios worth more than $6 trillion have
divested in part or in whole, and it's become by far the biggest
effort of its kind in history.<br>
<br>
And intriguingly, most of the recent converts have been moved as
much by self-interest as by moral fervor. As the years have gone by,
the fossil-fuel sector has dramatically underperformed the rest of
the economy. That's because it's under increasing and unrelenting
pressure from new technology – the ever-cheaper solar and wind power
that everyone can see will take a huge chunk of their business away.
So now it's also the largest insurance company in France that's
divested, and the sovereign wealth fund of Norway (the biggest pool
of money on Earth, earned from North Sea oil wells). When New York
City decided to divest in January, the press conference was held in
a building flooded by Hurricane Sandy – clearly fear of climate
change was the key reason for divestment, and they lit up the Empire
State Building green that night to make the point. But the green, as
Mayor Bill de Blasio was quick to point out, also stood for the
money the city was saving its pensioners by ensuring that they
weren't stuck paying for the fossil-fuel decline.<br>
<br>
There have been holdouts, of course – Harvard, run by a "board of
overseers" drawn heavily from Wall Street, refused to participate
officially. And then there's DiNapoli, who's played the most
intriguing role. So far he's failed to divest the state's $200
billion in pension funds from fossil fuels despite a demand from New
York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo that he do so, and despite the example set
by the state's biggest city, whose own comptroller, Scott Stringer,
has become an outspoken advocate for divestment. Though DiNapoli
clearly has the political backing to divest the state's holdings,
he's continued down a different path, promising to "engage" with the
fossil-fuel companies instead, to somehow turn them green. In the
meantime, it's business as usual. In fact, the state continues to
run up its investment in Exxon, filthiest of them all – it's now the
fifth-biggest investment in New York state's portfolio.<br>
<br>
Shareholder engagement with companies can be a powerful tool: Big
investors routinely use their clout to argue for, say, more diverse
representation on company boards of directors, or for modest changes
in the way they do their business. But it's an approach that's never
made much sense with the fossil-fuel industry, where the problem is
not some flaw in the business plan. The flaw is the business plan.
Exxon exists to dig up hydrocarbons and sell them so they can be
burned. DiNapoli apparently thought he could force real change: For
years he and others sponsored resolutions at Exxon annual meetings
demanding reforms. Finally, a year ago, the company grudgingly
agreed to prepare a "climate risk report" showing how the fight
against global warming might stress their business model. It wasn't
much of a victory, but it seemed like something to show for all that
work. DiNapoli, being a politician, issued a press release praising
himself. "Exxon's decision demonstrates that investors have the
power to hold corporations accountable and to compel them to address
our very real climate-related concerns," he said.<br>
<br>
But he and his like-minded colleagues were being played for fools.
Exxon took just a few weeks to prepare the report, and when it came
out it showed the company hadn't changed one whit. Climate change
posed essentially no risk to its future, Exxon insisted. It still
planned on burning almost all its reserves, and indeed would go on
exploring for new oil. It was Lucy with the football, and DiNapoli
was Charlie Brown lying on his back. To add insult to injury, the
industry arranged for the Trump administration to lift a block on
offshore oil drilling along the Atlantic coast – including Long
Island, where DiNapoli began his political career. As an
environmentalist.<br>
<br>
So the question is, what happens next. Exxon, for instance, has
another shareholder meeting later this month. Big investors have
already announced that they find Exxon's climate-risk report
"defective." It's possible that they'll just ask for another one and
the charade will carry on for a few more years, and a few more
tenths of a degree, and a few more inches of sea-level rise. It's a
dance everyone has grown comfortable with. The Independent Petroleum
Association of America recently wrote a letter to the Financial
Times saying "active engagement will always be the practical choice
for investors," the operative word being "always."<br>
<br>
If you wonder why the oil industry doesn't mind the DiNapolis of the
world using it as an occasional punching bag, it's because the
alternative – divestment – truly scares them. In the past six
months, a pair of academic studies have demonstrated that the
six-year campaign has had two powerful effects. One of those studies
showed that divestment had dragged the issue of climate change, and
the oil industry's culpability for it, squarely into the political
mainstream, "dramatically alter[ing] the climate change debate."
That was our aim as campaigners from the start – we wanted to help
take away fossil fuel's social license. But even we were surprised
to read the other study, which demonstrated that divestment had
actually begun to cost the industry real money. As the researchers
put it, "We've concluded that investors, and the market as a whole,
perceive divestment as integral to the long-term valuation of the
fossil fuel industry. Lower share prices increase the costs of
capital for the fossil fuel industry, which in turn decreases their
ability to explore new resources." Which is just what the physicist
ordered.<br>
<br>
The oil industry is slowly being cornered, like the tobacco industry
before it. Just as they once promised to go "Smoke Free," towns
across the country are now pledging to go "Fossil Free," banning new
fossil-fuel projects and committing to 100 percent renewable energy
for all. New York City is suing the five biggest oil companies for
the damages that came with climate change; so are San Francisco and
Seattle, where the county executive put the case plainly: "The
companies that profited the most from fossil fuels should help bear
the costs of managing these disasters," he said, and it's hard to
disagree – or to add up the potential damages. Sea-level rise alone
is likely to be costing the planet tens of trillions (with a T) of
dollars by the end of the century – and even at their most
profitable back in the dirty old days, oil companies didn't make
that kind of money. Cities are likely to be underwater, but so are
investments.<br>
<br>
So the moment has come when the steady stream of divestment
announcements needs to turn into a flood. And Tom DiNapoli might
still turn out to be a bit of a hero. After all, no one can claim to
have tried longer and harder to make Exxon and its ilk see the
light. And he's still trying: Reached for comment, DiNapoli's office
told me, "Given Exxon Mobil's disappointing 2 degree scenario
report, we continue to push the company to adapt to the growing low
carbon global economy." But in March, DiNapoli and Cuomo announced
the creation of the Decarbonization Advisory Panel, which will
evaluate divestment and other strategies for dealing with climate
change. Its first meeting was in early May, and when DiNapoli made a
recent campaign stop in Manhattan's West Village, journalists
reported that divestment was his office's "goal," but that DiNapoli
said it needed to be done carefully to avoid damaging pensioners:
"We have to balance it. I'm going to approach it in a very
deliberate way," he said.<br>
<br>
Which would be fine with the divestment movement, which from its
start has asked only that leaders commit to selling stock, and take
a maximum of five years to do it. But with carbon dioxide hitting
levels not seen in 15 million years, DiNapoli and others need to get
the ball rolling right this minute, standing up to the anti-science
policy pouring out of Washington. What matters is the message that
he and others decide to send, the level of courage these leaders
muster. Because it's not DiNapoli's fault that Exxon won't budge –
it turns out that the tiger in the tank simply won't change his
stripes. It's only DiNapoli's fault if he won't budge, he and the
others like him who cling to the old normal. You wouldn't have
guessed the state comptroller of New York might make a palpable
difference in how high the seas will eventually rise or how many
species will persist into the next century. But he and a thousand
others like him could – and it would be a gift worth far more than
that $108.<br>
<font size="-1">moe at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mckibben-hit-fossil-fuels-where-it-hurts-the-bottom-line-w520337">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mckibben-hit-fossil-fuels-where-it-hurts-the-bottom-line-w520337</a></font><br>
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[insects]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uow-ccb051718.php">Climate
change broadens threat of emerald ash borer</a></b><br>
University of Waterloo<br>
More Canadian cities will experience damage from the emerald ash
borer than previously thought. As a result of climate change and
fewer days of extreme cold, the beetle may eat its way further north
than originally estimated.<br>
Kim Cuddington, a professor of biology at the University of
Waterloo, led the team that produced a probability map for North
America showing where the emerald ash borer is likely to kill trees.<br>
"We ran specific predictions to help Canadian cities decide if they
need to make plans before they're affected," said Cuddington.
"Calgary is likely to experience damage, as are Thunder Bay, Prince
George and Winnipeg. Edmonton and Saskatoon are less likely, but
they should remain vigilant."<br>
So far, the wood-boring beetle has wiped out tens of millions of ash
trees and will likely cost municipalities $2 billion. Still,
everyone expected the species' rapid migration would be stopped by
Canada's extremely cold temperatures.<br>
"This should be a wake-up call for how we think about invasive
species," said Cuddington. "We need to develop preemptive measures
as well as mitigate potential impacts. By the time we see the
damage, it's almost too late."<br>
According to previous studies, prepupae can survive in temperatures
as low as -34ºC. Cuddington and her group confirmed the temperature
found under the bark where the insect overwinters is warmer than the
outside.<br>
"We took a different approach from traditional range maps and
charted the statistical probability of under-bark temperatures being
above this lethal limit for at least six years," said Cuddington.
"That's just long enough for the insect to kill its host tree."<br>
This is one of the first studies to couple an extensive empirical
data set with measures of climate variability using a mechanistic
modelling approach. Cuddington says researchers need to think more
carefully about how a changing and unpredictable climate relates to
the biology of an invasive species and their risk of doing damage,
both economically and ecologically.<br>
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The research appears in the journal Biological Invasions.<br>
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Harsh Vardhan - May 20, 2018<br>
NEW DELHI: Noting that the world is at a critical stage in combating
climate change, environment minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday
that the response of the developed nations to tackle the issue is
still "not adequate".<br>
He said this in his intervention at the 26th BASIC Ministerial
Meeting of Environment Ministers in Durban. The grouping is a bloc
of four countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - formed
by an agreement on November 28, 2009.<br>
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