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Paris climate pact could leave forests vulnerable
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Efforts to foster forests and slow deforestation, which is one of the leading causes of global warming, are largely being glossed over by most nations as they prepare for a historic round of climate negotiations. It remains unclear whether any agreement struck during the upcoming U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change session, which begins in Paris at the end of this month, will explicitly mention forestry. But forestry and farming are "implicitly' going to play roles in a climate pact "no...
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UK, India agree 3.2bn low carbon deal ahead Paris climate talks
2015-11-13 11:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The British government has announced a low carbon trading partnership with India worth billions, weeks before a global climate change summit kicks off in France. A press release said the 3.2bn agreement covers research, development and eventual deployment of clean technology, renewables, gas and nuclear. Signed off by Indian PM Narendra Modi on the first day of a three-day visit to the UK, the deal is part of a wider 10 billion package between the two countries. UK solar and hydrogen...
Climate-threatened nations seek tougher temperature goal Paris deal
2015-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A coalition of more than 40 countries most at risk from climate change has called for a new U.N. deal, due to be agreed in Paris next month, to enshrine a goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, warning over a billion people are in danger. The Climate Vulnerable Forum said sticking to a 2010 goal to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels would leave countries that are highly exposed to climate change even more vulnerable to threats such...
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Is the Paris Climate Conference Designed to Fail?
2015-11-13 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Counterpunch: From the end of this month through early December, much of the worlds attention will be focused on Paris, the site of the upcoming round of UN climate negotiations. This is the twenty-first time diplomats and heads of state will gather under the umbrella of the UNs Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a document first put forward at the landmark 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro the same global conference where the elder George Bush told the world that the American way of life...
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Paris climate deal must be legally binding, EU tells John Kerry
2015-11-12 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The EU has warned the Obama administration that a global climate deal at the Paris summit must be legally binding, after the US secretary of state John Kerry said that it definitively would not be a treaty The Paris agreement must be an international legally binding agreement, a spokeswoman for the EUs climate commissioner, Miguel Arias Caete , told the Guardian. The title of the agreement is yet to be decided but it will not affect its legally binding form. Earlier today, the French...
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