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NFU Urges Nations Ag Leaders, Organizations to Support Voluntary COOL as Easiest, Best Option to Resolve WTO Trade Dispute Quickly
2015-10-20 22:32:30| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (October 20, 2015) National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson issued the following statement in response to a recent letter from dairy industry organizations to the U.S. Senate on Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL), offering Voluntary COOL as the best option available: The Hoeven-Stabenow compromise
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Climate talks teeter as developing nations cry foul
2015-10-19 22:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Developing nations accused rich ones Monday of sidelining their interests at crunch climate talks, as the UN chief and France's president beat the drum for an ambitious global deal. A South Africa negotiator for a developing country bloc complained of "apartheid" treatment at the hands of developed nations at a meeting in Bonn, while UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the process as "frustrating" and "slow". The G77 group of more than 130 developing nations -- including China and India...
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Pledges by top three greenhouse gas emitters shut out other nations
2015-10-19 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Over two weeks in December, delegates from virtually every country in the world will gather in Paris for the 21st annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. Their ambitious goal: to hammer out a binding international agreement on climate action. In advance of the conference, organizers have requested that countries submit Intended Nationally Determined Contributions -- pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by an amount that should be "fair and ambitious," in order to limit global warming...
Rich Nations Failing to Do Fair Share to Fight Climate Change
2015-10-19 15:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Friends of the Earth International warned today that rich countries--those most responsible for climate change--are putting us on course for irreversible and more devastating climate change, instead of taking the urgently needed radical action to reduce their carbon emissions. Rich countries seek to shirk responsibility as #Bonn #climate talks open. Press Release: http://t.co/LP8he08Ewp pic.twitter.com/M6KrREQ3SA -- FoEScot (@FoEScot) October 19, 2015 The warning was issued as governments...
Rich nations 'not doing enough' to fight climate change
2015-10-19 08:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The United States and other rich nations are doing less than their fair share to fight climate change under a U.N. accord due in December, while China is outperforming, a report by 18 civil society groups said on Monday. Overall, governments' pledges for curbs on greenhouse gas emissions are not enough to limit a rise in temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), seen as a threshold for damaging heat waves, downpours and rising sea levels, it said. "The ambition of all major developed...
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