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OPEC chief defends members over missing climate pledges
2015-10-06 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Oil-exporting nations should not be blamed for failing to deliver UN climate pledges by last week`s deadline. That is the view of secretary-general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Abdalla Salem El-Badri, who spoke at an industry event in London on Tuesday. Almost 150 countries have submitted carbon-cutting visions towards a global pact due to be struck in Paris this December, covering 90% of greenhouse gas emissions. Just two of the Vienna-based bodys 13 members...
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U.N. Climate Chief: China Economic Slowdown Needn't Hamper Climate Deal
2015-09-04 15:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A slowdown in the Chinese economy that has alarmed global stock markets won't cast a "dark cloud" over U.N. efforts to reach an accord to slow global warming by December, the United Nations' climate chief predicted on Thursday. Christiana Figueres also told Reuters that investments in renewable energies were rising despite some worries that a fall in oil prices, to about $50 a barrel, could brake a shift to cleaner sources of power. "I dont hear (of) any overall dark cloud ... being imposed...
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UN climate chief says Paris talks last chance
2015-07-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres says that the upcoming climate change conference in Paris is the last chance for a meaningful agreement. Figueres is deep into preparations for trying to broker a landmark global climate deal with more than 190 nations in Paris in December. She told The Associated Press on Wednesday that "science is telling us that time is running out," and with another decade of dawdling, "we are going to be playing with fire." Figueres also said that Americans who doubt...
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EU Climate Chief Says No Plan B for Paris Climate Talks
2015-07-19 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There is "no plan B' if the Paris climate conference ends in failure, Europe's climate chief has warned, urging world leaders to intervene to force their ministers to agree a landmark deal this December. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Miguel Caete, commissioner for climate action, said he was very concerned about the lack of negotiating time remaining before the conference. Caete, who will lead the EU's 28 member states in the talks, said that if governments did not reach agreement,...
UN climate change chief tells charities to stop complaining about global warming
2015-07-04 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Environmental charities should spend less time complaining about global warming and more time coming up with workable solutions to the problem, the UNs climate change chief has said. NGOs have traditionally spent their time in opposition and must devote more of their efforts to being constructive, according to Janos Pasztor, the former WWF campaigner who is now UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moons official climate change spokesman. There is a role for opposition and saying no but there is...
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