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France suggests world leaders at start, not end, of climate summit
2015-06-01 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: France suggested on Monday that world leaders should attend only the start of a summit on climate change in Paris in six months, hoping to avoid a repeat of the last failed attempt in 2009 when they came at the end and left empty-handed. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also said France hoped to agree some elements of a U.N. climate deal by October, weeks before the Nov. 30-Dec. 11 summit, which aims to agree a global pact to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions. "The example of Copenhagen is...
France warns climate change threatens security
2015-05-30 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: France's influential Environment Minister Segolene Royal says climate change threatens global security adopting an unusually hawkish stance as she heads to the U.S. to push for a global deal on reducing emissions. Royal and her government are hosting a landmark U.N. climate conference this year aiming at a binding accord, but a big barrier is skepticism in the Republican-led U.S. Congress about the science of climate change and the economic cost of a deal. But Royal, in an interview with The...
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France now heralds ecological revolution: All plastic bags to be banned
2015-05-30 11:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: In month of May in 1789, the simmering debate between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy on the proposed royal reforms sparked the French revolution. It quickly spilled all over the country. The 'commons' or so called 'Third Estate' started holding their own assembly. Within a space of six months, by December, prison of Bastille and palace of Versailles were stormed and the debate on new structures that included, inter alia, principles of legal equality, began to set in. This week, on May 26,...
France invites Britain's Prince Charles to Paris climate conference
2015-05-29 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RFI: French Ecology Minister Ségolne Royal on Thursday invited Britain's Prince Charles to the Paris climate change conference in December on a personal visit to his London home, handing over a written invitation from President François Hollande. Prince Charles has been invited to the December conference, known as Cop21, which Hollande views as one of the most important events of his presidency, and to a preconference in July, Royal said after meeting the heir to the British throne at Clarence House....
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France ready to step in if UN climate talks stall, says top diplomat
2015-05-28 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: France will produce its own text for a global climate change agreement if countries taking part in UN negotiations fail to cut the current 90-page document down to size. The host of this years UN summit, where an emissions cutting pact between nearly 200 countries is set to be finalised, wants a shorter document by the end of the summer. We have to get a simpler text by June or the latest by the end of August to work with it, Frances top climate diplomat Laurence Tubiana told RTCC, speaking...
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