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Aviation talks face headwinds on rich-poor compromise
2016-04-06 12:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A deal to slash aviation emissions later this year risks being blown off course unless it overcomes major differences between wealthy and developing countries, according to NGOs. Regional meetings are taking place ahead of a September assembly of UN aviation authority, ICAO, tasked with delivering a goal to cap the industrys emissions at 2020 levels. Aviation was a significant omission from last years Paris climate deal. If left unchecked, the sectors share of global emissions could jump from...
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Monsters line road to Paris climate deal w/ rich-poor divide
2014-12-16 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The path to a climate deal in Paris a year from now is littered with obstacles, foremost among them how to differentiate between what industrialized nations led by the U.S. will do to cut fossil-fuel pollution, and what commitments developing ones such as India, Brazil will take on. Envoys from some 190 countries gathered in Lima last week took a step toward what will be the first deal binding all nations to limit greenhouse gases. While they sketched out what information countries must provide...
At UN climate talks, crack in rich-poor barrier
2014-12-14 23:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A last-minute deal that salvaged U.N. climate talks from collapse early Sunday sends a signal the rich-poor divide that long held up progress can be overcome with a year to go before a landmark pact is supposed to be adopted in Paris. Still, it remains to be seen whether governments can come up with a new formula for how countries in different stages of development should contribute in a way that keeps global warming from reaching dangerous levels. "This issue will be contentious and it will...
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Climate Preparedness Index Reveals Rich-Poor Gap
2014-11-21 23:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: High in the Peruvian Andes 8,000 alpacas died during a particularly harsh period of cold in the summer of 2004. For the herders who raise and shear these long-haired beasts for a living, it was a huge loss amounting to one fifth of all the alpacas living in that region of the highlands. Since then international aid organizations have worked with local herders to prevent future losses in the face of extreme cold snaps that seem to be occurring more frequently there with climate change. Together, they...
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Rich-poor divide deepens over climate aid as need grows
2013-11-20 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rich and poor were deadlocked on Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with global warming, in another setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress towards a 2015 deal. Bolivia and other developing countries accused the rich of failing to show willingness to discuss aid or compensation for losses and damage due to global warming, such as rising sea levels or creeping desertification. The two-week Warsaw talks, due to end on Friday, are trying...
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