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Paris climate talks: Democratic senators say 'will not back down'
2015-12-05 16:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Democratic senators staged a show of force at the Paris climate meeting on Saturday, pledging they had Barack Obamas back and would defend his agenda in a Republican-controlled Congress. The appearance by 10 Democratic senators, days after Congress voted to repeal new power plant rules, was intended to demonstrate solid political support for Obamas climate plan despite Republican claims to the contrary. The 10 senators, the first wave of an expected US political invasion of the climate...
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Fuelling its growth with coal, India champions the poor in Paris
2015-12-05 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India's hardline position in global climate talks has made it a potential villain for Western nations as it warns that its greenhouse emissions, mostly from burning dirty coal, may keep rising past the middle of the century. Its little-known team came to Paris with a mission to force rich nations to lead the way in curbing emissions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the summit that "climate justice" meant poor nations needed "room to grow". Such positions may have prompted U.S. Secretary of...
Artist hauls Greenland ice to Paris as a reminder of climate change
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Residents of central Paris got a chilling reminder on Thursday of the challenge facing negotiators at the world climate summit on the city's outskirts: 80 tonnes of Greenland ice left to slowly melt on the cobbles in front of the Pantheon. The ice was scooped from a Greenland fjord and hauled to Paris as part of an installation by the visual artist Olafur Eliasson, best known for building waterfalls in New York City in 2008 and an artificial sky inside the Tate Modern gallery in London in 2003....
Middle East conflicts coming into play in Paris
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: You might think climate change negotiations have nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You'd be wrong. In this process, anything and everything can come into play -- and often does. Take today, when, according to negotiators in the room, blogger-flogging Saudi Arabia managed to get a reference to "human rights" deleted from a draft text. How? By linking it to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The language around human rights had been a hard-fought inclusion in a section of the...
Paris climate talks: Africa means business on global warming
2015-12-04 14:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The term glacial pace takes on real and literal meaning with climate change. The disappearance of our glaciers may have hastened dramatically, but our efforts to stop them doing so have moved at a truly glacial pace. This has to change, right now. Since the Kyoto protocol came into being, we have failed miserably to protect our planet. Current trajectories show the world is on track towards a temperature rise of about 3C by 2100. Climate talks in Paris this month are our last chance to turn...
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