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Crib notes: UN chief raises climate deal approval stakes
2016-06-12 21:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Ban Ki-moon will host an event at the September UN general assembly meeting for more countries to deposit their ratification documents for the Paris Agreement. In a press briefing dominated by controversy over Saudi Arabian suppression of a UN report condemning its child rights abuses, the UN chief kept the climate pact on the agenda. He praised G7 leaders for committing to bring it into force this year and welcomed India PM Narendra Modi`s support of that goal. Ban Ki-moon: "We need to...
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UN Chief Seeks Fast-Paced Ratifications for Climate Change Treaty
2016-04-19 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Over 150 countries are expected to sign the Paris climate change agreement on April 22 but the historic treaty will not come into force until it has been ratified by 55 countries. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has hailed the agreement as "a landmark of international cooperation on one of the world's most complex issues", is hoping for fast-paced ratifications - perhaps before the end of the year so that it will also be considered as one of his lasting political legacies before he steps...
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U.N. climate chief predicts Paris deal will take effect early
2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new global pact to tackle climate change, agreed in Paris in December, could come into force two years earlier than the planned date of 2020, the U.N. climate chief has said. "I think we will have a Paris agreement in effect in 2018, predicted Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at a lecture in London on Monday evening. The agreement, originally slated to take effect in 2020, will come into force once 55 countries representing...
Climate chief expects 80-100 signatures on landmark treaty
2016-03-12 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The official in charge of global climate negotiations says between 80 and 100 countries are expected to sign the landmark agreement to tackle climate change reached in Paris in December at a ceremony at U.N. headquarters on April 22. Segolene Royal, French environment minister and newly-appointed president of U.N.-led climate negotiations, said Friday that more than 30 heads of state and government have already said they will attend signing event. She said invitations signed by U.N. Secretary-General...
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UN climate chief Christiana Figueres to step down: A legacy of bridging divides
2016-02-20 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Christina Figueres, the tireless shepherd behind last year's landmark climate agreement forged in Paris, is stepping down after six terms as the United Nations' climate chief. Ms. Figueres took her current post in 2010, after a climate summit in Copenhagen failed to produce legally binding action on climate change, devolving instead into an argument between developed and developing nations. The UNs top climate official has accomplished much in her six terms in office, from building bridges...
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