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UN chief hopes for new climate change agreement and end to war in Syria in 2013
2013-01-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says his top hopes for 2013 are to reach a new agreement on climate change and to urgently end the increasingly deadly and divisive war in Syria. The U.N. chief told The Associated Press that he's also hoping for progress in getting the global economy humming again, restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, promoting political solutions in Mali, Congo and the Central African Republic, and providing energy, food and water to all people. Ban laid out...
UN climate chief says domestic climate laws will underpin 2015 deal
2013-01-15 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The fate of a global climate deal in 2015 depends on governments implementing ambitious carbon reduction plans at home, the UN climate chief has warned. Christiana Figueres told a gathering of lawmakers in London that progress at the notoriously difficult UN negotiations will rely on efforts at a national and sub national level to cut fossil fuel consumption and develop renewable energy capabilities. Nothing is going to be agreed until enough is legislated domestically, she said, and because...
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