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Source: The New American - Despite the gloom-and-doom predictions often made by pundits associated with the environmental lobby, several recent studies show that there is no evidence to indicate that global warming caused by human activity has contributed to the rise of sea levels.

Source: The Huffington Post - Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded.

Source: The Washington Times - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that his greatest achievement at the helm of the world’s biggest international organization was last year’s climate change accord in Paris, and he expressed open frustration that Republicans in the U.S. continue to obstruct President Obama and to politicize the subject

Source: The Financial - Similar to other developing countries in the region, the forests in Thailand have been disappearing due to massive cutting of trees and lack of care for forests. To help Thailand address this situation, the country will receive a grant of US$3.6 million from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) to help develop a strategy and build capacities for reducing harmful emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

Source: Ecosystem Market Place - All around the world, farmers are accelerating climate change by chopping trees to meet our ravenous appetite for palm oil, soy, and other commodities. At the same time, scores of companies have made hundreds of commitments designed to end that, and almost 60% of those commitments have a deadline of 2020 or earlier.

Source: Les Echos - Les signataires du protocole de Montréal vont se réunir à Kigali (Rwanda), en octobre, pour réfléchir à la suppression progressive de l’utilisation des hydrofluorocarbures, un puissant gaz à effet de serre. Son élimination suffirait pour que le monde réalise un quart de l’objectif des 2°C de réchauffement fixé par l’Accord de Paris sur le climat.

Source: Ici Radio Canada - Le Service canadien des forêts veut inciter l'industrie forestière à se tourner vers la bioénergie.

Source: Le Monde - Comme les sept premiers mois de l’année, août 2016 détient le record de température annonce l’équipe Nasa/Université Columbia de New York. Malgré la décrue nette du phénomène El Niño dans l’Océan Pacifique tropical, 2016 devrait donc également décrocher la première place du classement, détrônant… 2015.

Source: Ultima Hora - El presidente de EEUU, Barack Obama, anunció este jueves la creación de una gran área marina protegida en la costa atlántica estadounidense, un paso con el que busca consolidar su legado en materia de protección de los océanos porque considera esa tarea imprescindible para combatir el cambio climático.

Source: Republica - “We have to keep the momentum going so that we can come together and protect our ocean. Why? Because our ocean is absolutely essential for life itself – not just the food, but the oxygen and weather cycles of the planet all depend on the ocean. ”