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U.N. talks agree building blocks new-style climate deal in 2015
2014-12-14 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: About 190 nations agreed on Sunday the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit increases in global temperatures. Under the deal reached in Lima, governments will submit national plans for reining in greenhouse gas emissions by an informal deadline of March 31, 2015 to form the basis of a global agreement due at a summit in Paris in a year's time. Most of the tough decisions about how to slow...
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Climate deal struck after marathon talks; India concerns met
2014-12-14 04:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jagran Post: "The document is approved,' announced President of the United Nations climate talks meeting Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who is also the Environment Minister of Peru, after hectic negotiations for about two weeks in the Peruvian capital in Lima. Commenting on the draft, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said, "All of India's concerns have been addressed.' "We have achieved targets and we got what we wanted,' he said after the delegates approved a broad blueprint for talks leading up to a deal...
No Lima climate deal better than bad one, say like minded countries
2014-12-12 18:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: An influential coalition of countries participating in the UN climate talks have indicated they would be prepared for an agreement to be postponed until early 2015, according to a leaked document. Negotiations in Lima are aimed at providing a set of guidelines for countries aiming to participate in a global emissions reduction deal, scheduled to be signed in Paris next December. A set of briefing notes sent to RTCC suggests the like minded development group of countries, which includes Venezuela,...
Kerry tells rich and poor to make climate deal to avoid 'tragedy'
2014-12-12 02:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an impassioned plea on Thursday for all nations to work for an ambitious U.N. deal next year to fight climate change, saying time was running out to reverse a course "leading to tragedy". He also took aim at domestic U.S. critics of President Barack Obama who question whether climate change is mainly man-made. Kerry said scientific findings were overwhelming and "screaming at us, warning us". "Every nation, every nation has a responsibility to do its part,"...
US rules out China-like climate deal with India in near future
2014-12-11 01:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: A day before meeting Indian environment minister Prakash Javadekar for yet another round of bilateral meeting here on sideline of the climate conference, the US special envoy for climate change Todd Stern on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of a wide-ranging deal to cut greenhouse gas emission with India on the line of the recent US-China deal. Responding to a specific question on the possibility of such deal during the US president Barack Obama's visit to New Delhi in January next year, Stern...
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