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Paris climate summit: Can deal be reached at the UNs meeting?
2015-11-26 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: A deal looks likely the political will is there The countries that signed up to the 1992 climate convention the Conference of the Parties or COP in diplomatese started meeting every year in 1995. The third COP meeting established the Kyoto Protocol, to run until 2012. The infamous 2009 meeting in Copenhagen failed to extend the protocol beyond 2012. A major sticking point, as ever, was trying to get industrialised countries to sign up to bigger cuts when developing nations were allowed...
Germany says Paris climate deal must include solid review scheme
2015-11-26 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Next week's climate conference in Paris will only be a success if the final deal includes a solid review scheme that ensures pledges to reduce carbon emissions are really kept, a senior German government official said on Thursday. Officials from nearly 200 countries will meet in the French capital from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 to negotiate a plan to curb global warming by reducing carbon emissions, aiming to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit). National climate action...
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Pope Urges Deal on Climate Change in Paris to Avoid Catastrophe
2015-11-26 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Pope Francis urged world leaders preparing to meet at a United Nations conference on climate change to agree an accord that transforms current development models and focuses on the need to adopt low-carbon energy systems. Negotiators meeting in Paris next week have a political and economic obligation to rethink and correct the dysfunctions and distortions of the current development model, the pontiff said in a speech at the UN Environment Programme headquarters in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi....
Paris climate deal needs solidarity on loss and damage
2015-11-25 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Solidarity. It will be top of all participants minds at the upcoming climate summit in Paris. As more than 130 world leaders descend on the French capital, there is no doubt that recent terrorist attacks will lend solemnity and additional pressure for a successful climate deal. Many will consider a successful agreement an act of solidarity with the French Presidency, and the French people. Theres another group with whom it is crucial to seek solidarity in agreeing the new international climate...
Climate deal urgent after weather-linked disasters kill 600,000 20 years: UN
2015-11-23 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Weather-related disasters have grown more frequent over the last 20 years, claiming more than 600,000 lives, the UN said Monday, issuing a further call for nations to strike a landmark deal on climate change. The report from the United Nations agency for disaster risk reduction (UNISDR) said floods, storms and other extreme weather events have killed 606,000 people since 1995, "with an additional 4.1 billion people injured, left homeless or in need of emergency assistance." The report noted...
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