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UN climate change talks in Warsaw hampered by development gap
2013-11-21 05:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Developed and developing nations were deadlocked Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with global warming, in another setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress toward a new global climate accord. With two days left in talks trying to reach a new agreement meant to be concluded in 2015 and enter into force from 2020, negotiators for developing nations including China walked out early Wednesday from a meeting about compensation for the impact...
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Climate Financing Focus of High-Level Warsaw Talks
2013-11-21 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on government leaders to prioritize the environment in domestic politics and contribute to climate financing as a way of moving towards a new global climate change agreement by 2015. "This can do more than anything to unlock the huge investment necessary for climate change adaptation and mitigation," Ban told a ministerial-level meeting on the margins of the UN-led climate change negotiations underway in the Polish capital. The high-level ministerial...
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133 developing countries walk out of Warsaw talks
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: The G77+China group of 133 countries walked out of negotiations on Loss and Damage at around 3:30 am on Wednesday morning after the rich countries refused to budge from the position that the subject should be discussed only after 2015. The U.S., Australia and Canada have been the most vocal and trenchant advocates against setting up a separate mechanism on Loss and Damage while the E.U., though not belligerent, has also played a part to make sure the mechanism does not materialise at the Warsaw...
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Poor countries clamoring for aid slam into 'hard reality' in Warsaw
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: The top U.S. negotiator on climate change has effectively ruled out any new American pledge this year to a U.N. fund for helping poor countries cope with global warming, but vulnerable nations and human rights groups gathered for the climate summit here refuse to accept that. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also called climate finance "critical" in his first press briefing of the summit today. Pointing to Typhoon Haiyan, which he said puts "an anguished human face" on climate change, he...
UN climate talks in Warsaw: what need to know
2013-11-19 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What is happening in Warsaw? It is COP19 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or, in other words, the latest round of the ongoing United Nations talks aimed at forging a new global agreement on climate change. The talks began on 11 November but the real business the "high-level segment" in which government ministers take part opens on Tuesday with a short session and gala dinner for the assembled dignitaries, then the ministers get down to talks on Wednesday with the aim of finishing...
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