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Nations and Corporations Pledge to End Forest Loss by 2030 at UN Summit
2014-09-24 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The U.S., Canada, and the European Union agreed at yesterday's UN climate summit to cut global deforestation in half by the end of the decade and eliminate net forest losses entirely by 2030, marking the first time such a deadline has been set. If the goal is met, it will cut carbon emissions by an amount equal to taking 1 billion vehicles every car on the planet off the road, the UN said. Notably missing from the list of committed countries was Brazil, which has been a key player in Amazon deforestation,...
Leonardo DiCaprio Talks About Climate Change at UN Summit
2014-09-24 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Only days after Emma Watson spoke at the United Nations about gender equality, fellow thespian Leonardo DiCaprio delivered an impassioned speech about climate change to guests at the UN Climate Summit 2014. As an actor I pretend for a living, he said. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction, as if pretending that climate change wasnt real would somehow make it go away. DiCaprio...
India to pitch for 'right to grow' for poor nations during UN Climate Summit
2014-09-23 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: As world leaders assembled in US to give a political push to their efforts to deal with climate change, India is all set to make its 'right to grow' points at the New York Climate Summit, which was kicked off by the UN secretary-general Ban-Ki-moon on Tuesday. The country's environment minister Prakash Javadekar is there to express India's view points which revolve around the premise that the poor countries need to develop at this stage to eradicate poverty and rich nations should take the responsibility...
Climate change is happening despite two decades of UN climate talks
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IBT: World leaders have been trying to forge a global treaty on climate change for more than two decades. But persuading countries to abandon profitable fossil fuels -- and instead spend trillions of dollars on new technology and environmental protections -- has proved nearly impossible. The Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, expired two years ago with little discernable impact on greenhouse gas emissions. (The United States signed, but never ratified, the agreement.) Attempts to work out a successor...
Companies to make climate pledges at U.N. summit
2014-09-22 05:44:51| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Touted as the world's largest gathering ever on climate change, this week's U.N. Climate Summit will be as much about business as politics. Major companies, including Big Oil, will make pledges to help fight global warming by cutting their heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, protecting the world's forests and reducing methane leakage from fossil fuel production.
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