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Getting that sinking feeling in tortuous UN climate talks
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany Abdullahi Majeed was a young delegate for the Maldives when low-lying island states warned for the first time in 1989 that climate change and rising seas could "threaten the very survival" of some nations. Now a 60-year-old veteran, Majeed is still repeating that message, one of a handful of delegates to this month's Paris climate summit who have been attending tortuous U.N. negotiations to combat global warming from the start. "It's frustrating," he said. "The sense of urgency is simply...
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Biodegradable plastics dont reduce marine litter: UN
2015-11-18 20:09:31| Canadian Plastics Headlines
The growing use of biodegradable plastics will not significantly decrease the volume of plastic entering the worlds oceans or the physical and chemical risks that plastics pose to the marine environment, a new report by the United Nations says. The… The post Biodegradable plastics dont reduce marine litter: UN appeared first on Canadian Plastics.
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Republicans bid to kill Obama climate rule before UN summit
2015-11-18 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Leading Democrat senators say a Republican-led drive to thwart President Obamas centrepiece climate policy is mainly symbolic and a stunt to erode the administration`s leadership before the Paris climate talks. Twin resolutions to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which plans to cut carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, were both passed on Tuesday evening by 52-46 on the Senate floor. Two Democrats backed the vote. The White House said the move would stall progress on cleaner energy and...
Climate pledges 'far from enough' to halt global warming: UN
2015-11-06 10:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN warned Friday that nations' carbon-cutting pledges go nowhere near far enough to prevent dangerous global warming, as political efforts gain speed three weeks before a Paris summit tasked with sealing a climate rescue pact. National pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions -- if respected -- would yield only a third of the cuts needed by 2030 to keep Earth from overheating, according to a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report. The voluntary targets "are not sufficient to limit global...
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Paris 2015: Carbon promises lock in 2.7 degrees warming, UN says
2015-10-31 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The world remains on course to exceed dangerous temperature increases even if nations carry out pledges they make at next month's global climate summit in Paris, the United Nations says. An assessment by the UN of 146 national goals and those of the European Union covering about 86 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions found they would cut average per capita pollution by as much as 8 per cent by 2025 and 9 per cent by 2030 compared with the current trajectory. So-called Intended Nationally Determined...
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