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Was Warsaw enough to address climate challenges in Africa?
2014-02-07 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The Africa Adaptation Gap report put the spotlight on the frightening climate change impacts that African countries are facing. According to the report, Africa is already facing adaptation costs in the range of $7-15bn per year by 2020. Even if the world does manage to get on a pathway of keeping average global warming below 2°C, Africa's adaptation costs are likely to be in the range of $35bn per year by the 2040s, and $200bn per year by the 2070s - with total costs reaching 1 percent of the continent's...
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Warsaw Chopin 'Composed' for Daifuku BHS and the Highly Advanced M700 RF Tilt Tray Sorter
2013-12-06 16:30:00| Airport Technology
The baggage handling contract for Warsaw Chopin International Airport's upgraded departures and arrivals system has been awarded to Daifuku's airport baggage handling (ABH) division and specifically to Logan Teleflex France.
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Warsaw saves climate talks, the planet not so much
2013-12-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the Philippines four days ahead of the 19th round of the UN climate change negotiations in Warsaw setting the stage for countries to take urgent action on climate change. Fourteen days of intense negotiations later, all that representatives of the 197 countries could agree on was to continue talking. The Warsaw meet, described as a holding COP, was to deliver three things: an international mechanism on loss and damage, clarity on climate finance and groundwork for new agreement...
Q&A on the forest agreement in Warsaw
2013-12-05 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Building on several years of negotiations, countries inked a major agreement on forest conservation at the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw on 23 November. The deal formally integrates forest conservation into the international climate agenda by enabling wealthy countries to offset their emissions by paying poor tropical countries to protect their forests. The framework is known as REDD+, which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. The plus sign refers...
Climate talks in Warsaw 'a waste of energy'
2013-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times: The United Nations, UN, climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, have ended with activists disappointed that the quest for climate justice had become even more elusive. The COP19 -- the 19th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change -- ended on November 23 with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming. "The climate conference in Warsaw was a waste of energy," said Martin Kaiser of Greenpeace Germany. "It was already clear by midweek that small steps...
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