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Historic Climate Change Agreement Adopted Paris
2015-12-12 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: After two weeks of tense talks, word-wrangling and marathon overnight meetings, diplomats in Paris agreed to a global climate change accord on Saturday evening -- a day after the summit's scheduled conclusion. Leaders and experts cheered the historic agreement that emerged from the 21st Conference of the Parties, or COP21, calling it ambitious and realistic, and a crucial step in protecting the Earth for future generations. "The decisive deal for the planet is here," French President François...
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Paris agreement a victory for climate science and ultimate defeat for fossil fuels
2015-12-12 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The right hand of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gripped the gavel in the seconds before striking the historic first global deal on climate change. Dignitaries, politicians and delegates had filed into the packed La Seine plenary room from about 5.30pm here in Paris. But there was still time for some last minute drama. It turned out that a paragraph that contained the word shall should have read should, but the delay was enough to create tension across the venue. But this is...
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COP21: Paris agreement formally adopted
2015-12-12 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Envoys in Paris have agreed an international accord to limit greenhouse gas emissions that marks a turning point in more than 20 years of effort to prevent dangerous levels of global warming. Envoys from nearly 200 nations cheered and hugged one another on the floor of the convention centre hall at Le Bourget airport, north of the city centre, as Frances foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, declared the new pact had been formally adopted, just before 7:30pm in Paris. The new pact, to be known as...
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World Agrees to Historic 'Paris Agreement' to Address Climate Change
2015-12-12 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries reached an agreement Saturday on what they say signifies the most important international pact to address climate change since the issue first emerged as a political priority decades ago. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who headed up the United Nations conference, commonly known as COP 21, said the final deal successfully resolved points of contention that had taken negotiations into overtime and called the agreement the best possible text. We have...
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Joyful ministers seal landmark Paris Agreement to stop global warming
2015-12-12 19:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Cheering envoys from 195 nations approved Saturday a historic accord in Paris to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ended nearly a fortnight of gruelling UN negotiations with the bang of a gavel, marking consensus among the ministers, who stood for several minutes to clap and shout their joy, with some shedding tears of relief. "I see the room, I see the reaction is...
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