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Decoding Paris climate deal: What does it mean?
2015-12-12 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A two-week climate conference in Paris ended on Saturday with the first universal agreement on climate change. Some 186 countries have made national pledges for climate action, and agreed a global long-term goal to phase out greenhouse gas emissions, marking a turning point in the fossil fuel era. The Paris outcome has two documents. The all-important, 12-page document Paris Agreement, which sets out new commitments for climate action beyond 2020, and potentially through this century....
Final climate change deal keeps emissions in check, if it sticks
2015-12-12 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Engadget: After weeks of work, the United Nations is on the cusp of reaching a deal to prevent climate change... hopefully. A just-published final draft agreement sets some clear targets that include a hefty amount of cooperation. The deal would limit the global temperature increase to "well below" 2 Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and reach a balance in greenhouse gas emissions (that is, as many offsets as there are emitters) by the second half of this century. There would be a progress review every...
Bernie Sanders: Paris Climate Change Deal 'Goes Nowhere Near Far Enough'
2015-12-12 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blaze: The Paris climate pact does not go far enough, according to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who also took the opportunity to slam Republicans Saturday morning for caring too much about the fossil fuel industry. In a press release from the Vermont senators campaign Saturday, Sanders said the accord presented to the delegates attending the international climate summit in Paris goes nowhere near far enough to force nations to lower planet-warming carbon emissions. While this...
Paris climate deal: key points at a glance
2015-12-12 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Keeping temperatures below 1.5C Governments have agreed to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels: something that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago. Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments There is a scientific rationale for the number. John Schellnhuber, a scientist who advises Germany and the Vatican, says 1.5C marks the point where there is a real danger of serious tipping points in the worlds climate. The goal of 1.5C is...
Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments
2015-12-12 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: By comparison to what it could have been, its a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, its a disaster. Inside the narrow frame within which the talks have taken place, the draft agreement at the UN climate talks in Paris is a great success. The relief and self-congratulation with which the final text was greeted, acknowledges the failure at Copenhagen six years ago, where the negotiations ran wildly over time before collapsing. The Paris agreement is still awaiting formal adoption,...
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