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Climate Activists Gather in Paris to Protest Outcome of Conference
2015-12-12 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Several thousand climate activists from across Europe and many from farther afield gathered peacefully near the Arc de Triomphe on Saturday to protest the outcome of the COP 21 climate conference about 12 miles away. The demonstration was an official exception to a ban on public gatherings across France after the Paris terrorist attacks in November. Even as the delegates at the official conference center were announcing a final draft of an agreement and applauding their achievement, the crowds...
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Paris talks overlooking immediate threats, say climate change activists video
2015-12-12 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change activists express their disappointment on Saturday at the final draft of the COP21 climate deal saying that it was too little, too late. Guillaume Durin, an activist from French environmental collective Alternatiba,says people are already affected by climate change and that the agreement is a way of delaying meaningful action
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Red lines, condoms & Arc de Triomphe: Climate activists step up protests
2015-12-11 17:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: From storming the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris to handing out condoms to bureaucrats in the suburbs, climate change activists stepped up public stunts on Friday in a last-ditch bid to get negotiators to agree a powerful accord. Two weeks of U.N. talks to forge a global agreement to temper global warming are set to continue into Saturday, a day later than scheduled, as officials from 195 nations seek to resolve stubborn differences over how to cut back fossil fuel use and shift the planet toward...
Paris painted yellow w/ eco paint climate activists scale Arc de Triomphe
2015-12-11 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On the UN climate summits penultimate day on Friday, Greenpeace activists paint Pariss streets yellow with eco paint. They dangle banners from the Arc de Triomphe calling on the French president, François Hollande, to renew the energy
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Activists to defy protest ban giant civil disobedience end Paris climate talks
2015-12-10 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As negotiators try to finalize a UN climate pact being hailed as dangerously insufficient, a network of groups will express their outrage and pledge continuing action in the new year with massive civil disobedience at an iconic French site. Organizers hope to send a message that leaders should not try to claim the agreement is a success - with industrialized countries refusing to commit to a fair share of emissions reductions, putting the world on a path toward a catastrophic 3 degrees of warming....
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