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COP20 Climate Forum: Lima UN talks agree on building blocks for 2015 climate deal
2014-12-14 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: UN members meeting in Lima reach an agreement to tackle climate change after negotiations run into a second day of extra sessions. About 190 nations have agreed on the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit rising world temperatures. Under the Lima deal, governments will submit national plans for reining in greenhouse gas emissions by an informal deadline of March 31, 2015, to form the basis...
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UN members agree deal Lima climate talks
2014-12-14 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks in Lima, Peru, to overrun by two days. Environmental groups said the deal was an ineffectual compromise, but the EU said it was a step towards achieving a global climate deal next year in Paris. The talks proved difficult because of divisions...
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U.N. talks agree building blocks new-style climate deal in 2015
2014-12-14 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: About 190 nations agreed on Sunday the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit increases in global temperatures. Under the deal reached in Lima, governments will submit national plans for reining in greenhouse gas emissions by an informal deadline of March 31, 2015 to form the basis of a global agreement due at a summit in Paris in a year's time. Most of the tough decisions about how to slow...
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Lima climate talks agree on just one paragraph of deal with 24 hours left
2014-12-11 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Negotiators working on a deal to fight climate change have agreed on just a single paragraph of text, casting a shadow over the prospects for a strong outcome in Lima. The talks scheduled to end at noon local time on Friday after 10 full days are intended to provide a clear blueprint for a global agreement to find climate change by the end of next year. But while negotiators descended on Lima in a positive mood, buoyed by recent commitments from the US and China, the talks have fallen into...
Lawmakers agree on $1.1 trillion spending bill
2014-12-10 06:50:08| Trucking - Topix.net
Time running short, Republicans and Democrats agreed Tuesday on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and delay a politically charged struggle over President Barack Obama's new immigration policy until the new year. The compromise will permit virtually the entire government to operate normally through the Sept.
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