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France needs climate deal push
2015-06-06 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: Little more than six months are left before France is supposed to steer the world to the most demanding and complex deal on climate change ever attempted. And beneath the suave face of French diplomacy, one can sense nerves as officials measure the mountain looming closer and recall the disaster of when the world last sought a deal on global warming. On December 11, after a 12-day conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, 195 countries are scheduled to seal a pact to limit warming to 2C over...
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UN Climate Deal in Paris May End Up Burying 2 Degree Goal
2015-06-01 19:05:30| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The UN's Paris climate conference, designed to reach a plan for curbing global warming, may instead become the graveyard for its defining goal: to stop temperatures rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Achieving the 2C (3.6 Fahrenheit) target has been the driving force for climate negotiators and scientists, who say it is the limit beyond which the world will suffer ever worsening floods, droughts, storms and rising seas. But six months before world leaders convene in...
Poor nations waiting for deal on climate, says French minister
2015-05-29 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Developing countries are waiting to see what rich nations will offer them in global warming talks, the French minister of environment has said, ahead of crunch negotiations to be hosted in Paris later this year. Ségolne Royal, the environment minister and former presidential candidate, will play a leading role in the United Nations conference in December as the French government is working to produce a new Paris protocol that would determine the future of global action on climate change for...
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Governments certain to seal Paris climate deal: U.N. climate chief
2015-05-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Governments are certain to sign a global climate deal in Paris in six months' time even though most countries have yet to outline how they plan to cut emissions, the United Nations' climate chief said on Tuesday. Almost 200 governments are due to meet at a conference in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 to agree on a deal to slow global warming. "Governments are actually very well on track...there is no doubt that this agreement will be forged in Paris," Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. climate...
Time short for global climate deal in Paris, warns Hollande
2015-05-21 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: French President Francois Hollande warned Wednesday that time was short for a year-end deal on climate change and called on world leaders to unlock the complex process in the months ahead. In a speech opening a two-day gathering of business executives on climate change, Hollande said "200 days are left" before a crucial UN conference which France will host. "That may seem a lot of time, but in fact there's very little," Hollande said. "It's urgent." The Paris conference, from November 30...
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