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Climate curbs will slow temperature rise; more needed for 2C goal: UN
2015-10-30 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Plans by about 150 countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions will slow climate change this century but they need to do more to limit rising global temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), the United Nations said on Friday. Scientists say warming must be kept below 2 degrees by the end of the century to stave off the worst effects of climate change such as floods, droughts and rising sea levels. National strategies would restrict a rise in world emissions to the equivalent of 56.7...
Relative risk of meat causing cancer low, according to U.N. agency
2015-10-26 13:33:00| National Hog Farmer
Compiled by National Hog Farmer The World Health Organization agency concluded that the relative risk of contracting cancer from consuming red or processed meat is low. Scientific evidence shows cancer is a complex disease not caused by single foods. read more
Trudeau wants opposition rivals to join him at UN climate talks
2015-10-24 23:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau is reaching across party lines in an effort to rehabilitate Canadas tattered environmental reputation ahead of a major climate summit in Paris next month. Trudeau intends to invite the leaders of the opposition parties, as well as provincial and territorial leaders, to accompany him to the UN conference, The Canadian Press reports. At the Paris talks, the international community will try to hammer out a new agreement to slow global warming. Even Green...
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France hopeful on climate deal after rocky start to U.N. talks
2015-10-20 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Prospects for a U.N. deal in Paris in December meant to mark a "turning point" in slowing climate change have brightened after an acrimonious start to the final preparatory talks in Germany, France said on Tuesday. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said there was a growing consensus that national pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020, the building blocks of a deal in Paris, should be reviewed and toughened every five years. "The climate ... is positive" for a deal in Paris...
Cutting through the legal fog of a UN climate pact
2015-10-19 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The growing support for a durable and lasting 'Paris Agreement` should help Parties to come to grips with the issue of the legal form or nature of the Paris outcome that has long haunted the negotiations and has indeed caused considerable confusion. Some aspects of the debate on legal form/nature seem to have moved toward settlement as also reflected in the latest negotiating text. First, there seems little doubt that Parties are heading toward the adoption of an international treaty requiring...
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