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This is the end of fossil fuels
2015-12-13 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: For Selina Leem, an 18-year-old from a tiny part of the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific, the adoption of Saturday's "Paris Agreement" on climate change wasn't about wonky diplomacy. It was about the survival of her country. "This agreement is for those of us whose identity, whose culture, whose ancestors, whose whole being is bound to their lands," she said in the final meeting of the COP21 summit of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. "This agreement should be ......
Paris climate agreement may signal end of fossil fuel era
2015-12-13 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments may have signalled an end to the fossil fuel era, with massive consequences for industry, global security, financial markets and public health, Al Gore and other business leaders have said. This universal and ambitious agreement sends a clear signal to governments, businesses, and investors everywhere: the transformation of our global economy from one fuelled by dirty energy to one fuelled by sustainable economic growth is now firmly and inevitably under way, the former senator said...
Paris climate deal: nearly 200 nations sign in end fossil fuel era
2015-12-12 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments have signalled an end to the fossil fuel era, committing for the first time to a universal agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change at crunch UN talks in Paris. After 20 years of fraught meetings, including the past two weeks spent in an exhibition hall on the outskirts of Paris, negotiators from nearly 200 countries signed on to a deal on Saturday evening that set ambitious goals to limit temperature rise and to hold governments...
In final push for landmark climate deal, end of fossil fuel era nears
2015-12-12 05:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: At the tail end of the hottest year on record, climate negotiators in Paris will aim on Saturday to seal a landmark accord that will transform the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming. After four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperiled island states against rising economic powerhouses, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will unveil the latest text of a climate deal on Saturday at 9 a.m. (0300...
Japan's stocks end three days of losses
2015-12-11 03:35:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Japan's stocks rose on Friday following an upbeat lead from the US and ending three days of losses.
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