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Will Australia cause slip on climate change stepping stones in Warsaw?
2013-11-14 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: United Nations climate talks aim to make ground on a new global deal as Australia's rhetoric turns negative Share Tweet this Email Stepping stones across a river after heavy rain Photograph: Steve Bentley/Alamy The United Nations climate change negotiations taking place in Warsaw have been trivially described as a "stepping stone" towards the next big global deal to cut emissions which, some hope, will be greeted with a giant rubber stamp in Paris in 2015. But stepping stones can be slippery...
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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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The players on the Warsaw pitch
2013-11-12 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Times: The "pitch" on climate at COP19 in Warsaw this week is how to persuade the big players to stay onside. However, there is also pitch, shale gas and the avoidance of Russian gas on the local menu. Christiana Figueres is the leading UN official on climate change, with IPCC figures to consider within a very different agenda. "This is very serious data, which puts a lot of the onus on developed countries to truly support the transformation developing countries have to make (to a low-carbon economy)" she...
Typhoon Haiyan Deadly Surge Noted in Warsaw Talks
2013-11-12 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The devastation and mounting humanitarian crisis in the Philippines in the wake of Super Typhoon Haiyan is becoming more apparent with each passing hour, with the final death toll possibly climbing as high as 20,000 or more, making it the deadliest and most expensive natural disaster in that storm-prone country's history. While Haiyan's winds have garnered most of the headlines, reports from the hardest-hit areas now indicate that it was likely the massive storm surge that caused the most damage...
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UK urged to maintain leadership on green issues on eve of Warsaw talks
2013-11-10 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK must continue to show leadership on green issues if crunch negotiations to tackle climate change are to be successful, Europe's climate chief has warned. On the eve of crucial international talks in Warsaw on tackling climate change, deep rifts within the coalition over environmental policies, including David Cameron's pledge to review green levies on energy bills, have left confusion and ill-feeling over the core policy. Nick Clegg warned on Thursday: "The green consensus across the political...
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