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Buddhists call for strong Paris climate deal to limit warming
2015-10-30 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Senior Buddhists have called on world leaders to agree a new climate change agreement at a conference in Paris next month. The 15 signatories, including the Dalai Lama, are urging politicians to completely phase out fossil fuels. They argue that the rise in global temperatures must be limited to 1.5C in the future. Observers say it is the first time that so many leading Buddhists have joined together on a global issue. The statement from the leaders of over a billion Buddhists worldwide...
India's Modi urges 'comprehensive' climate deal at African summit
2015-10-29 04:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Thursday for a "comprehensive and concrete" agreement on climate change in December, as he addressed African leaders at a major summit in New Delhi. Modi said no one had contributed less to global warming than India and Africa, warning that "the excess of (the) few cannot become the burden of many". He was speaking as world leaders prepare to meet in Paris in December to try to reach an agreement on tackling climate change, with the goal of capping...
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Climate change deal will not include global carbon price: UN climate chief
2015-10-27 13:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A climate change deal to be agreed in Paris in December will not be able to come up with a global carbon price, the United Nations' climate chief, Christiana Figueres, said on Tuesday. Big multinational companies and investors, and most recently oil majors, have called for a global carbon price to help spur investments in low-carbon energy. A global carbon price would help to create an incentive for operators of power plants and factories to switch to cleaner fuels such as gas or to buy more...
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Global climate deal could punish Canada
2015-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau will face one of his first major international tests at next months United Nations meeting on climate change in Paris. In all, 25,000 delegates -- including Canadas premiers whom Trudeau plans to bring along -- from 196 countries will make yet another attempt to draft a binding global agreement to fight man-made global warming. But the same fundamental disagreements which scuttled a similar deal in Copenhagen in 2009 and, prior to that, produced the failed...
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Outline of UN climate deal reached after fractious talks
2015-10-24 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: Envoys have reached an outline for a UN global climate pact to be reached in Paris in five weeks. The five day negotiations in Bonn have been marked by fractious arguments between developed and developing countries. A 20-page document put forward by developed countries on Monday had morphed into 55-pages at the close of negotiations on Friday night, after developing countries insisted their demands were cut and should be reinserted. The five day meeting that was supposed to create a clear and...
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