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Rainforest Plan for Forest Carbon Supervisor Stalls in UN
2013-11-20 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Discord over forest-protection efforts have emerged regarding whether a new UN panel should be empowered to control the flow of funds into projects to preserve woodlands. The disagreement centers on a proposal by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations, whose 41 members include Argentina, Kenya, Indonesia and Ghana, to set up an advisory body. The group would improve coherence and coordination in the delivery of financial and technical support for the implementation of so-called REDD-plus projects....
Japan: New emissions goal derided as 'bad joke' at U.N. climate summit
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The governments decision to lower its carbon emissions target immediately came under widespread criticism from international negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Poland, with one environmental group calling it a bad joke. The United Nations, European Union and the worlds small island states reacted with disappointment to Fridays announcement by Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara in Tokyo, while green nongovernmental groups voiced fury. Today, Japan slashed its 2020 emission reduction...
From mobile solar to low-risk homes, climate action is underway - UN
2013-11-07 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When remote mining camps in Mongolia's south Gobi desert need energy, they rent diesel generators. But rented solar arrays can provide energy 30 percent cheaper, while producing no carbon emissions, an entrepreneur says. The solar rental model, with no upfront investment costs, makes "a solar farm cheap up front and cheaper to run. The payback time is zero. You immediately start saving from day one,' said Erwin Spolders, whose mobile solar rental company, France-based Redavia, is about to place...
Greenhouse gas in atmosphere hits new record: UN
2013-11-06 08:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The amount of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere hit a new record high in 2012, continuing an ever-faster rise that is driving climate change, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday. "The concentrations are reaching once again record levels," Michel Jarraud, who heads the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told reporters in Geneva. His organisation released its annual report on greenhouse gases on Wednesday, showing that concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide...
Carbon emissions must be cut significantly by 2020, says UN report
2013-11-05 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The chances of keeping the global temperature increase below 2C will "swiftly diminish' unless the world takes immediate action to escalate cuts in carbon emissions, the United Nations has warned. The UN Environment Program said that even if nations meet their current emissions reduction pledges, carbon emissions in 2020 will be eight to 12 gigatonnes above the level required to avoid a costly nosedive in greenhouse gas output. The Emissions Gap Report 2013, which was compiled by 44 scientific...
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