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Climate change pledges: rich nations face fury over moves renege
2013-11-16 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Developing nations have launched an impassioned attack on the failure of the world's richest countries to live up to their climate change pledges in the wake of the disaster in the Philippines. With more than 3,600 people now believed to have been killed by Typhoon Haiyan, moves by several major economies to backtrack on commitments over carbon emissions have put the world's poorest and most wealthy states on a collision course, on the eve of crucial high-level talks at a summit of world powers....
Rich nations spurn call to use history to guide UN climate deal
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Union and the United States opposed on Friday a call by developing countries to measure each nation's historical responsibility for global warming to guide a U.N. deal in 2015 to cut future greenhouse gases. Rich nations fear that any scientific study that might blame rich nations most since they have burnt fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution could further delay sluggish U.N. talks. Brazil won backing from more than 100 developing nations at the November 11-22 meeting...
Rich nations must pay up if U.N. climate talks to succeed: China
2013-11-15 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Slow-moving U.N. negotiations on fighting climate change can advance only if rich nations fulfill their promise to provide billions of dollars in finance to developing countries, China's chief climate negotiator Su Wei said Thursday. He told reporters in Warsaw that developed nations should make good on pledges made in 2010 and immediately pay the promised $30 billion to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change. Rich countries also need to clarify how they intend to scale...
Developing nations bear the brunt of extreme weather
2013-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were the countries that suffered the most due to extreme weather events in 2012, according to the Global Climate Risk Index released yesterday at the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The 2012 events that hit these countries and, so explain their high ranking were Hurricane Sandy in Haiti, Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines, and severe monsoon flooding in Pakistan. "We have lost almost US$15 billion to floods and droughts in the last three years and...
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Warsaw United Nations' climate talks: Welcome to Coaland
2013-11-12 14:35:57| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Monday, the UN climate talks opened in Warsaw. Significant progress needs to be made during these negotiations, to ensure that we are on track to agreeing an ambitious global deal to combat climate change at Paris in 2015. But the world is not only watching the negotiations closely. All eyes are on Poland, the presidency of this conference. Already in the run up to the summit, Poland presented itself as controversial host. In a blog post on the official COP19 website, the organisers welcomed...
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