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UN chief seeks 'global action' on climate change this year
2015-05-25 16:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Monday called for "global action" this year to limit climate change as international weather experts began a quadrennial congress in Geneva. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) meeting comes ahead of a key conference in Paris at the end of the year which will be the first attempt to clinch a planet-wide deal on global warming since the near-disastrous 2009 UN summit in Copenhagen. The Paris accord, which would take effect from 2020, would aim at limiting global warming...
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UN climate chief slams fossil fuel investments, outlines steps Paris deal
2015-05-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: On the heels of President Obama's controversial decision to greenlight renewed oil drilling in the Arctic, the United Nations' top climate change official yesterday declared that fossil fuels have become an unwise investment. Christiana Figueres, who leads the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, avoided commenting directly on the White House move allowing Royal Dutch Shell to begin exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea. But she noted that oil and gas reserves must stay underground and...
UN climate chief says technology has changed carbon politics
2015-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Express: Technological advances that have reduced prices and improved efficiency of renewable energy have helped transform the politics around climate change since 2009 when an attempt to forge a global deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions failed, the U.N. climate chief said Thursday. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said countries were ahead of schedule in negotiating a landmark agreement on curbing greenhouse gases that can be adopted at...
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UN climate chief says the science is clear: there is no space for new coal
2015-05-04 08:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, has said there was no space for new coal developments and stressed the benefits of ambitious renewable energy targets after a meeting with representatives from seven Australian governments. At the meeting in Adelaide, organised by the South Australian government, federal, state and territory administrations agreed to work more closely to drive an uptake in renewable energy, coordinate energy-efficiency schemes and help communities adapt to climate change....
UN Chief to Open Vatican Climate Change Conference
2015-04-15 00:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will open a key Vatican meeting this month on Pope Francis' highly anticipated teaching document on climate change. The U.N. chief will join American economist Jeffrey Sachs and the pope's top representative on the environment, Cardinal Peter Turkson, at the April 28 event in Rome. Turkson, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, helped write the first draft of the pope's encyclical on global warming and the environment, which is scheduled to be...
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