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Climate talks: Outcome on REDD reached at Warsaw UN Climate talks
2013-11-25 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pana: Negotiators at the UN Climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, have agreed on the rules on financing forest protection in developing nations, a breakthrough in the negotiations scheduled to end Friday. The mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) which puts sustainable finance and strong safeguards in front was reached here Friday and the framework on the mechanism will be formally adopted before the talks conclude on Friday. Negotiators are still locked up...
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How rich countries dodged the climate change blame game in Warsaw
2013-11-25 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: After sitting through the final week of the United Nations climate change negotiations in Warsaw, one thing has become abundantly clear. Rich countries are desperate to avoid taking the blame for the impacts of climate change on nations with a lot less money but an awful lot more to lose (like their entire country, for example). More specifically, the developed countries won't let any statements slip into any UN climate document that could be used against them in the future. The 19th...
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Warsaw Climate Talks End With Deals on Forests, Financing
2013-11-25 00:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw ended on Saturday, 24 hours behind schedule, with organizers declaring that governments are still on track to agree on a universal climate agreement in 2015 that will come into force from 2020. "Warsaw has set a pathway for governments to work on a draft text of a new universal climate agreement so it appears on the table at the next UN Climate change conference in Peru. This is an essential step to reach a final agreement in Paris, in 2015," said Poland`s...
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Warsaw climate talks set 2015 target for plans to curb emissions
2013-11-24 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments around the world have just over a year in which to set out their targets on curbing greenhouse gas emissions from 2020, after marathon overnight climate change talks in Warsaw produced a partial deal. Under the agreement, settled in the early hours of Sunday morning after more than 36 hours of non-stop negotiations, countries have until the first quarter of 2015 to publish their plans. This process is seen as essential to achieving a new global deal on emissions at a crunch conference...
Key points of the Warsaw consensus
2013-11-24 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: UN climate negotiators reached agreement in Warsaw on Saturday on cornerstone elements for the road to a new 2015 deal to curb global warming. Here are the main points: ROAD TO PARIS - Countries reaffirmed the core principle that the deal will be "applicable to all" 195 parties to the UN climate convention -- with no differentiation between rich and poor nations as under the pact's predecessor the Kyoto Protocol. - Parties should volunteer targets for curbing climate-altering greenhouse...
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