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Walking tall: Expect tears as UN climate chief eyes Paris prize
2015-11-05 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: In just over a month, at a bleak airport in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, the future of the world may be decided at a UN climate change conference. Nearly 200 countries are working on a plan to collectively start weaning themselves off fossil fuels: lifeblood of the global economy, cause of global warming. If they succeed then by 2100 the burning of oil, coal and gas at scale will likely be history. Countries will rely on wind, solar, nuclear for energy, along with technologies as yet unheard...
UN climate chief: global emissions pledges not enough yet
2015-10-30 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Governments' emissions-cutting pledges ahead of a global conference in December are a good step toward achieving an international global warming goal, but they aren't yet enough, the U.N. climate chief said Friday. The plans submitted by 146 countries for the climate conference in Paris could cut average global emissions per capita of greenhouse gases by up to 8 percent by 2025 and 9 percent by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, a U.N. assessment found. U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres'...
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Cruz, Sierra Club chief get hot over climate change at hearing
2015-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday on the topic of federal regulations and their impact on minority communities devolved into a standoff over the existence of climate change -- with neither Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) nor Sierra Club President Aaron Mair willing to budge from their respective positions. The debate erupted during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, when Cruz questioned Mair about global warming. The 10-minute...
IMF chief seeks climate breakthrough at Lima meet
2015-10-08 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: "If we collectively chicken out of this, we`ll all turn into chickens and we`ll all be fried, grilled, toasted and roasted. So said Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, in a press conference in Lima on Wednesday. Her focus: climate change. Her message: its the right time for all governments to start pricing greenhouse gas emissions. Lagardes call came two days before one of the most important financial meets of the year, hosted by the IMF and World Bank. The...
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New UN climate science chief touts role for business
2015-10-07 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The UN climate science body needs to harness private sector knowledge, its newly elected chair said on Wednesday. Hoesung Lee called for a more bottom-up approach to compiling the periodic Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports. The South Korean energy economist, who started his career at US oil major Exxon in the 1970s, told journalists businesses had a role to play. A vast degree of knowledge and expertise are embedded in the business sector, he said. ...
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