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Lima marchers, experts want climate deal to respect rights
2014-12-11 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rights experts and civil society groups issued an open letter on Wednesday to ministers attending U.N. climate talks in Lima, urging governments to enshrine "human rights for all" in the new global climate deal due to be agreed at the end of 2015. At the same time, thousands of Peruvians and indigenous people from the Andean and Amazon regions marched shoulder to shoulder with climate activists from around the world on the traffic-choked streets of Lima. They called for urgent action to tackle...
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Stern warning: Legally-binding climate deal 'not necessary'
2014-12-08 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A legally-binding international treaty may not be the best way to tackle climate change. Leading economist Lord Nicholas Stern said that a commitment to sustainable development was more important than a binding deal that "lacked credibility". He was speaking in Lima, Peru, where negotiators from 194 countries are heading into a second week of UN talks. They hope to agree a text that would form the basis of new global compact, to be signed in Paris next year. Many developing countries...
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UN plans for 2015 climate deal favour rich, say developing countries
2014-12-03 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: A tense atmosphere marked the beginning of todays UN climate talks in Lima, as African countries accused co-chairs of driving an imbalanced process. All the 196 countries involved in the negotiations met this morning for their first round of formal discussions on the UNs climate agreement, which is set to be signed in Paris next year. Talks in Lima are expected to lay strong foundations for this deal, but many parties expressed unhappiness with how the process had been conducted so far. ...
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UN climate change deal must have legally binding targets, says EU
2014-11-27 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An international deal on global warming must have legally binding targets, Europe will argue at a UN climate summit in Peru next week. The Lima conference is intended to deliver the first draft of an accord to cut carbon emissions and stave off dangerous climate change, which is expected to be signed at a UN conference in Paris next year. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior EU official in Brussels said that the bloc had not abandoned its position that any agreement on emissions cuts...
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Call UN climate deal support carbon market links
2014-11-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Countries around the world are developing an array of different carbon taxes and trading systems to control greenhouse gas emissions. The more these can be joined up, experts say, the cheaper it will be to tackle climate change. This argument is gaining ground among businesses and developed economies, but advocates fear anti-capitalist Latin American states could use UN climate negotiations to block it. Dirk Forrister, CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), says there...
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