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After Paris attacks, increased resolve for UN climate talks
2015-11-27 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Still gripped by shock and grief, Paris will play host to a long-awaited U.N. climate conference under tragic circumstances that none could have foreseen. But delegates to the two-week talks starting Monday insist they won't let the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people in the French capital distract them from the task at hand: crafting a landmark deal to fight global warming. If anything, some say, the bloodshed could make countries more determined to reach a deal to address a problem that's...
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COP21: Pope Says Failure Paris Would Be Catastrophic
2015-11-27 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: On Thursday afternoon Pope Francis spoke about the importance of safeguarding the environment and ensuring a just distribution of the earths wealth as he addressed directors and staff of the United Nations Offices in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. On his way to the meeting, the Pope symbolically planted a tree, which he described as an invitation to continue the battle against phenomena like deforestation and desertification in order to safeguard the future of humanity. He also highlighted the...
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Paris climate summit: Can deal be reached at the UNs meeting?
2015-11-26 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: A deal looks likely the political will is there The countries that signed up to the 1992 climate convention the Conference of the Parties or COP in diplomatese started meeting every year in 1995. The third COP meeting established the Kyoto Protocol, to run until 2012. The infamous 2009 meeting in Copenhagen failed to extend the protocol beyond 2012. A major sticking point, as ever, was trying to get industrialised countries to sign up to bigger cuts when developing nations were allowed...
Germany says Paris climate deal must include solid review scheme
2015-11-26 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Next week's climate conference in Paris will only be a success if the final deal includes a solid review scheme that ensures pledges to reduce carbon emissions are really kept, a senior German government official said on Thursday. Officials from nearly 200 countries will meet in the French capital from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 to negotiate a plan to curb global warming by reducing carbon emissions, aiming to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit). National climate action...
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Failure of Paris climate summit would be 'catastrophic': pope
2015-11-26 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis on Thursday warned of a "catastrophic" outcome if vested interests blocked an agreement to tackle climate change at the UN talks opening 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," he said ahead of the summit which officially starts...
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