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World must face up to climate-driven disasters: UN
2013-05-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The world needs to wake up to the risk of a spike in natural disasters linked to climate change and strive to find ways to cut the human and economic cost, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. "We live in a time of huge natural disasters which are made worse by climate change," the UN's deputy secretary-general, Jan Eliasson, told reporters at the start of a three-day conference on risk reduction in Geneva. "Natural disasters are not only becoming more frequent but are becoming more vehement,"...
Rules to measure climate ambition could be agreed at UN summit in Warsaw
2013-05-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Specific criteria that countries can base emission reduction plans on needs be agreed at the Warsaw climate summit at the end of 2013, an influential campaign group has warned. The Climate Action Network (CAN) wants the UN to host an equity review to establish a consistent set of indicators developed and developing countries can use to assess their own climate ambition. Observers fear that unless accepted measurements of climate ambition can be established, it could be virtually impossible...
Report: US pushing plan for individual climate goals at UN talks
2013-05-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: A United States-led plan that would allow countries to set their own climate targets is gaining traction at United Nations climate change talks. The initiative amounts to scrapping the foundation of the Kyoto Protocol, which was struck in 1997 and set marks for reducing global emissions by 2012. The 160 nations involved in the Bonn, Germany, negotiations are looking to hammer out a plan to prevent a temperature rise of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2020. The next chance to strike an agreement would...
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Can EU climate leadership survive next round of UN talks?
2013-04-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: International climate negotiations are now ratcheting up after something of a post-Durban hiatus. A UNFCCC Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action will be hosted in Bonn, between 29 April and 3 May 2013. The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action sets in motion a process -- to be completed by 2015 -- with the ultimate objective of delivering a top down legally binding emissions reduction agreement to cover all countries (and the EU), applying from 2020. Has the EU approach...
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Investing in healthy forests vital for transition to green economy, UN says
2013-04-19 04:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Big News Network: Investing in healthy forests is not only vital for human and environmental well-being but also crucial in the transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient green economy, says the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Over a billion people worldwide depend on forests for shelter, jobs, food, water, medicine and security. Forests also serve as carbon sinks and stabilize global climate, regulate water cycles and provide habitats for biodiversity while hosting a wide variety of genetic resources....
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