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Talks on climate deal heat up over bill for global warming
2015-10-23 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The trillion-dollar question of who should pay for global warming is coming to a head in talks on an international climate pact, as developing countries worry they won't get enough money to tackle the problem. With just five weeks left before a U.N. climate summit in Paris, developing countries closed ranks at weeklong talks that ended Friday in Bonn and called on wealthy nations to make firm financial commitments to help them fight and adapt to climate change. The Paris summit "will be judged...
France hopeful on climate deal after rocky start to U.N. talks
2015-10-20 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Prospects for a U.N. deal in Paris in December meant to mark a "turning point" in slowing climate change have brightened after an acrimonious start to the final preparatory talks in Germany, France said on Tuesday. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said there was a growing consensus that national pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020, the building blocks of a deal in Paris, should be reviewed and toughened every five years. "The climate ... is positive" for a deal in Paris...
South Africa likens draft climate deal to apartheid
2015-10-19 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: South Africa on Monday criticized a draft United Nations accord on fighting climate change as a form of "apartheid" against developing nations. A summit in Paris is supposed to agree a global accord for tackling climate change in December, but a last week of negotiations on the draft text, which began in Germany on Monday, got off to a stormy start with developing nations saying their demands had been omitted from the pared down 20-page draft. "It is just like apartheid," Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko,...
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Kerry urges 'ambitious' climate deal, warns on food security
2015-10-17 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged global leaders on Saturday to agree an "ambitious" deal at a climate conference in Paris in December, saying global warming was the biggest threat to global food security. "We need every country on the same page, pushing an ambitious, durable and inclusive agreement that will finally put us on the path toward a global clean-energy future," Kerry told an audience at the Milan Expo, where the focus is on "Feeding the planet" and new approaches to sustainable...
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Oil companies back Paris climate deal
2015-10-16 15:07:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Leaders of ten of the world's biggest oil companies have offered their qualified support for a new global climate treaty.
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