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Paris talks could improve climate pledges
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Until recently, global climate negotiations resembled wards full of newborn babies. Everybody seemed awfully upset about something, but with little idea what to do about it. Now the kids are growing. And they've been handing in their homework. What happens to that homework as countries' climate policies mature could mean the difference between a humanity that's afflicted by climate change, or one that's devastated by it. The way that countries will move together to act on climate in the coming...
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Can Paris climate talks overcome the India challenge?
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: If any single country embodies the challenge of reaching an agreement at the huge United Nations climate conference that begins in Paris on Monday, it is India. India is already the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and it plans a massive increase, proposing to treble CO2 emissions within the next 15 years. What is more, unlike virtually every other country attending the Paris conference - including the two biggest polluters, the US and China - India has not set a future cap...
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Pope Francis: Catastrophic Climate if Paris Talks Fail
2015-11-27 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pope Francis warned on Wednesday that the world is facing a "grave environmental crisis" and spoke of the intersection between social justice and the protection of nature. The pontiff`s comments, made in the Kenyan capital at the start of his first visit to the continent, come just days ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris, where global delegates will hammer out an agreement to curb climate change. "The grave environmental crisis facing our world demands an ever greater sensitivity to the...
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Envoys aim to surf wave of optimism at Paris climate talks
2015-11-27 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Just weeks after the terror attacks, Paris will soon be known as the place where world leaders stood on the right side of history. So said World Bank chief Jim Kim this week, one of an estimated 40,000 delegates who will cram into the French capitals bleak Le Bourget airfield next week for the UNs 2015 climate change summit. At stake is the transformation of the world economy away from fossil fuels to wind, solar, marine and as yet undiscovered forms of energy by 2100. The last time...
Pope: 'Catastrophic' climate if Paris UN talks fail
2015-11-27 03:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Pope Francis warned of a "catastrophic" outcome if vested interests block a binding agreement to tackle climate change at UN talks in Paris next week. "In a few days, an important meeting on climate change will be held in Paris... It would be sad - and I dare say even catastrophic - were particular interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and projects," the pontiff said on Thursday. The 78-year-old pope has taken on a...
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