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Climate chief warns of 'urgency' as CO2 levels rise
2013-04-30 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN's climate chief called for urgency Monday as she opened a new round of global talks amid warnings that Earth-warming carbon dioxide levels were approaching a symbolic threshold never seen in human history. Data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii have shown the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to be at 399.72 parts per million (ppm), Christiana Figueres told climate negotiators in Bonn. "We are just about to cross the 400 ppm threshold," she said in a prepared speech that stressed...
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UN climate chief predicts 2015 talks won't fail
2013-04-24 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Governments are more serious and the impact of climate change is more dramatic, improving chances of a groundbreaking global warming pact in 2015 in contrast with the failure of such an effort in 2009, the U.N. climate chief said Tuesday. The climate change talks in Copenhagen were a resounding failure, setting back the movement to control global warming. Even so, the U.N. official, Christiana Figueres, is optimistic, though she admits the world needs to step up its efforts to meet its goals....
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China climate chief says EU CO2 crisis will not hurt domestic plans
2013-04-18 12:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The crisis facing the European carbon market will not deter China from plans to establish its own emissions trading platform or its other climate pledges, the senior official responsible for climate change said on Thursday. Xie Zhenhua, vice-director of the National Development and Reform Commission in charge of climate policies, said efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions were a "domestic requirement". They were, he said, designed to address longstanding inefficiency and environmental problems,...
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Europe's climate chief vows to fight on to save emissions trading scheme
2013-04-18 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Europe's climate chief vowed on Wednesday to fight on to save the EU's flagship environmental policy, the emissions trading system (ETS), after a serious blow on Tuesday when MEPs rejected reforms aimed at repairing the ailing system. MEPs voted 334 against to 315 in favour of "backloading" the market - a proposal aimed to reverse the plummeting price of carbon that has resulted from a surplus of permits in the ETS market - leading the price of carbon to fall by almost half to under EUR3 on Tuesday....
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EU climate chief vows to save scheme
2013-04-17 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Europe's climate chief vowed on Wednesday to fight on to save the EU's flagship environmental policy, the emissions trading system (ETS), after a serious blow on Tuesday when MEPs rejected reforms aimed at repairing the ailing system. MEPs voted 334 against to 315 in favour of "backloading" the market a proposal aimed to reverse the plummeting price of carbon that has resulted from a surplus of permits in the ETS market leading the price of carbon to fall by almost half to under EUR3 on Tuesday....
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