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COP 19: Warsaw climate deal finalised as deadlock broken
2013-11-23 21:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Warsaw Summit closed with an agreement late on Saturday evening, after a last-ditch deal was reached on plans for a loss and damage mechanism designed to help developing nations cope with climate change impacts. Forty-eight hours of tense negotiations including a stand-off between the US and developing nations culminated in a compromise deal that set out a timeline for discussions in the run up to the Paris Summit in 2015 and commits countries to a new loss and damage mechanism. "Warsaw...
COP 19: Warsaw Summit goes to the wire as nations clash over loss and damage
2013-11-23 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Warsaw Summit descended into a series of increasingly frantic meetings this evening as Ministers battled to reach a deal on a controversial "loss and damage" mechanism designed to help developing nations cope with the impacts of climate change. The summit is currently continuing into Saturday evening, 24 hours after its scheduled close, with the final plenary session characterised by a series of "huddles" between delegations attempting to resolve divisions on the wording relating to the promised...
Warsaw climate talks remain contentious, may end in all-nighter
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Bedraggled diplomats returned this morning to the soccer stadium where U.N. climate change negotiations are being held. They are fully expecting to battle into the night over the best path toward a new 2015 global warming agreement. With a quiet and somewhat sour mood descending over the discussions after a walkout by environmental activists yesterday decrying lack of progress, several issues remain unresolved. Among them: funding levels for vulnerable countries between now and 2020 and a way...
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COP 19: Warsaw Summit "on knife edge" as talks continue into Saturday
2013-11-23 10:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Warsaw Summit has been extended into Saturday after a long night of tense negotiations failed to end in agreement on Friday. The talks are continuing this morning, having badly overrun in the manner that is customary for UN climate change negotiations. Sources reported the talks had made important progress on how to improve the REDD+ regime for tackling deforestation and how to measure, report and verify countries promised carbon emissions. However, a stand off continued through the...
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Warsaw climate conference produces little agreement
2013-11-22 20:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Even with the destruction from Typhoon Haiyan as a backdrop, the 195 nations that met over the past two weeks in Warsaw for a global summit on climate change made only modest progress toward an agreement, including an accord designed to slow deforestation that may be the meeting's signature accomplishment. It is impossible to blame climate change for any specific weather event, including the ferocious typhoon that killed more than 5,200 people and displaced 4 million in the Philippines two...
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