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India says Paris climate deal won't affect plans double coal output
2015-12-14 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India still plans to double coal output by 2020 and rely on the resource for decades afterwards, a senior official said on Monday, days after rich and poor countries agreed in Paris to curb carbon emissions blamed for global warming. India, the world's third-largest carbon emitter, is dependant on coal for about two-thirds of its energy needs and has pledged to mine more of the fuel to power its resource-hungry economy while also promising to increase clean energy generation. "The environment is...
How Climate Deal Was Designed Be Republican-Proof
2015-12-14 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At 11.30pm Paris time, a small group of White House officials dashed into a temporary plywood hut in the exhibition hall where, a few hours earlier, a historic legal agreement to cut emissions causing climate change was secured. They were just in time to catch a live feed of Barack Obama declaring a turning point for the world. These were the officials who helped set the US negotiating position for the talks or, perhaps more accurately, helped craft the deal according to US specifications...
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CBI backs Paris climate change deal
2015-12-13 11:19:55| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The CBI welcomes the Paris climate deal, but says the UK government must support investment in cleaner energy generation.
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Paris climate deal is 'best chance to save planet'
2015-12-13 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The climate deal reached in Paris is "the best chance we have to save the one planet we have", US President Barack Obama has said. He said it could be a "turning point" for the world to take on the challenge of a low-carbon future. China, the world's biggest polluter, also hailed the deal. But some campaigners said it did not go far enough to protect the planet. The Paris pact aims to curb global warming to less than 2C (3.6F) Nearly 200 countries took part in tense negotiations in the...
Paris climate deal: reaction from the experts
2015-12-13 02:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The agreement is extremely welcome. However, we should also be cautious. It is clear that the 1C temperature rise over pre-industrial levels that we have seen so far has triggered a whole range of effects including melting of mountain glaciers, significant sea-level rise, devastating droughts, and flooding. These effects are likely to get much worse with even modest future increases. Keeping temperatures to manageable levels also assumes that we know what the precise link is between atmospheric greenhouse...
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