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Ban Ki-moon Urges Paris Climate Deal
2015-11-30 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The United Nations secretary general called the summit meeting a decisive turning point and said leaders had the power to secure the well-being of this and future generations.
Paris Has Already Given Us a Modest Climate Deal Now to Ramp it Up
2015-11-30 13:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GovTech: The new agreement will aim to hold average global warming below 2? above pre-industrial levels, although this goal is itself contentious. Such warming will lead to devastating longer-term impacts, is especially dangerous for least developed countries, and constitutes a death knell for low-lying island states which are arguing for 1.5? or less. With this in mind, two years ago parties agreed to submit their voluntary 2030 targets ahead of the Paris meeting. So far 177 countries, including all the...
Why climate deal is everyone's business
2015-11-27 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: As governments from more than 190 countries descend on Paris next week to negotiate a new climate change agreement, they will have to consider both scientific and political realities. But to come up with a plan that works, they will need to fully grasp how climate change is already affecting the lives of people like Mathilda, a schoolgirl growing up in one of the poorest regions of Kenya. Mathilda, 15, is Turkana, an indigenous people that has survived by raising livestock in a semiarid region bordering...
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Worldwide Support For an Ambitious Climate Change Deal Is Faltering, New Poll Says
2015-11-27 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: A new poll released ahead of the U.N.-led climate change conference in Paris says that support around the world for an ambitious global climate-change deal has slipped in recent years. Only four of the 20 countries surveyed displayed majority support for setting lofty targets for the upcoming conference, according to the BBC. Less than half of the people surveyed considered climate change a "very serious" issue, according to the GlobeScan research group, the BBC reports. In 2009, the same...
COP21: Public support for tough climate deal 'declines'
2015-11-27 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Public support for a strong global deal on climate change has declined, according to a poll carried out in 20 countries. Only four now have majorities in favour of their governments setting ambitious targets at a global conference in Paris. In a similar poll before the Copenhagen meeting in 2009, eight countries had majorities favouring tough action. The poll has been provided to the BBC by research group GlobeScan. Just under half of all those surveyed viewed climate change as a "very...
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