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Al Gore confident in global climate deal at Paris conference
2015-05-19 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Environmentalist and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is optimistic that world leaders will reach a crucial deal this year on fighting climate change. Gore met Monday with French President Francois Hollande, who will be hosting a major U.N. climate conference in Paris on Nov. 30-Dec. 11. After the meeting, Gore said, "this conference is the one where the world will say yes to an agreement to reduce global warming and pollution." Gore negotiated for the U.S. at the 1997 conference that...
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Company bosses pledge emission cuts, call strong Paris climate deal
2015-04-17 00:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Bosses from more than forty global companies called on negotiators to agree a United Nations climate change deal in Paris in December and pledged to make their own emission cuts, they said in an open letter published on Thursday. The group of 43 chief executives, representing firms which generated a combined $1.2 trillion in 2014, said they would set internal emission reduction targets and called on negotiators to make sure a new international climate deal limits the global rise in temperatures...
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Small Islands Won't Accept Weak Paris Climate Deal, Maldives Official Says
2015-02-12 14:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Small island states have not given up hope of a global climate deal that restricts warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, a senior negotiator representing the Maldives has told RTCC. Maldives ambassador Ahmed Sareer, who recently assumed the presidency of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) at UN climate talks, said the future of his country depended on an ambitious deal in Paris later this year. 1.5C is still within reach its clear that science has shown this is possible,...
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Paris climate deal unlikely to avoid dangerous warming, says Ed Davey
2015-01-07 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A new global climate deal expected to be agreed in Paris at the end of this year will not be ambitious enough to prevent dangerous temperature rises, energy secretary Ed Davey has warned. Mr Davey, who admitted it was quite likely he would no longer be energy and climate change secretary by the UN climate talks in December, said a legally-binding treaty can be agreed at the negotiations - and would be the best way to curb global warming. But he said he feared the talks in Paris would not...
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Lima climate deal leaves room for improvement
2014-12-22 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Ever since negotiators failed to agree on a climate accord in Copenhagen five years ago, diplomats have been trying for a big, international do-over. Talks in Lima, Peru, this month put this effort on track to conclude an agreement in Paris next year. The trade-off is that the accord will be insufficiently ambitious and difficult to enforce, in part because of the intransigence of developing countries. It cannot be the final word on the global response to climate change -- just an early step....
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