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End of UN climate talks breaks fast for Philippines envoy
2013-11-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: For Philippines diplomat Yeb Sano, Saturday's close of UN climate talks in Warsaw comes with an unusual prize: he can eat again. The climate envoy had embarked on a tea-and-water only fast on the first day of the talks on November 11, in a symbolic push for a good outcome. "I am famished. I am famished!" the senior climate envoy told AFP at the Warsaw National Stadium where the discussions ended in a number of consensus agreements on Saturday. "My doctor says I should take it slowly, so...
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Warsaw climate talks end with compromise
2013-11-24 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: More than 24 hours after the scheduled end of the climate conference in Warsaw, delegates have finally come to a consensus. But the conference was teetering on the edge of failure right up to the final minutes. At the end, everything hung on one word. Developing countries wanted to exclude the word "under" from the climate conference's final report. Countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh did not want to accept that the new international "loss and damage mechanism," created in Warsaw...
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World's longest flight: End of 19 hr. Singapore to Newark route somber
2013-11-23 18:18:27| Airlines - Topix.net
An Airbus A-380 of Singapore Airlines is pictured at Frankfurt International Airport on February 17, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Warsaw climate talks remain contentious, may end in all-nighter
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Bedraggled diplomats returned this morning to the soccer stadium where U.N. climate change negotiations are being held. They are fully expecting to battle into the night over the best path toward a new 2015 global warming agreement. With a quiet and somewhat sour mood descending over the discussions after a walkout by environmental activists yesterday decrying lack of progress, several issues remain unresolved. Among them: funding levels for vulnerable countries between now and 2020 and a way...
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Proposal: End cost studies for some rate increases
2013-11-23 09:27:31| Energy - Topix.net
The chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission has suggested that regulators end the practice of conducting cost studies for proposed rate increases that are less than 10 percent.
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