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Obama calls for 'strong' climate deal in Paris
2015-09-27 22:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged world leaders to step up efforts for a "strong" climate agreement at year-end talks in Paris. "In just two months, the world must unite around a strong global agreement," Obama said in an address to a United Nations development summit. "All our countries will be affected by a changing climate, but the world's poorest people will bear the heaviest burden -- rising seas, more intense droughts," Obama said. "We'll be seeing climate change refugees,"...
Strong climate deal needed to combat future refugee crises
2015-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Climate change has been held responsible many of the social and economic woes affecting mainly the poorest in the global South and now many are seeing it as one of the root causes of refugee crises. In his State of the Union speech here Sep. 9 to the European Parliament, even European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said that an "ambitious, robust and binding" climate treaty is needed to prevent another refugee crisis.Climate change has been held responsible many of the social and economic...
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Global climate deal 'must be found', says French president
2015-07-21 16:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: French President Francois Hollande sought Tuesday to raise the stakes for a UN climate conference his country will host at the end of the year, saying the world faced a global warming crisis. Addressing international dignitaries at a "Summit of Conscience for the Climate" in the French capital, Hollande called insisted that "an agreement must be found". As some 40 foreign and environment ministers met elsewhere in the French capital to accelerate flagging UN negotiations, Hollande underlined...
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Paris climate deal must signal end to carbon economy: experts
2015-07-10 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new global climate change deal, due to be agreed in Paris in December, must give clear guidance that moving away from fossil fuels is inevitable and wise, economists said on Friday. It must also usher in an era when governments, businesses, activists and citizens find innovative ways to make that shift happen, experts told a Paris meeting of climate scientists. Paris will not solve all, of course, said Laurence Tubiana, Frances ambassador to the U.N. climate talks. But we have to have every...
Faith groups seek climate deal boost from Pope, pilgrimage
2015-06-08 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A "People's Pilgrimage" to highlight the effects of climate change and an upcoming papal encyclical on the environment aim this month to invigorate political will for an ambitious new deal to curb global warming. On Monday, former Philippines' climate change commissioner Naderev "Yeb" Sao kicked off a six-month journey around the world to places hit hard by climate change, beginning in the Pacific island state of Vanuatu, still struggling to recover from the devastation caused by Cyclone Pam in...
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