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Warsaw to lay climate deal basics
2013-10-09 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Polands environment minister says his challenge at next months climate conference will be to lay foundations for a new global emission cuts deal. Marcin Korolec told The Associated Press that the United Nations COP19 conference in Warsaw will require huge work in making some 200 participating nations agree on conditions for a deal to be signed in 2015 in Paris. A major point of contention is how to divide the burden of cuts between industrialized nations and emerging economies. The deal...
Clock ticking on 2015 climate talks deal: EU commissioner
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Countries around the world need to act with a sense of urgency if the 2015 UN climate change talks on cutting emissions are to have a credible outcome, a top EU official warned Friday. EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said rich and poor nations alike should be prepared to commit to legally binding commitments limiting planetary warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels. Negotiators have set a 2015 deadline for signing in Paris the UN's most ambitious environmental...
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E.U.-China solar deal highlights tough climate for green jobs
2013-08-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: European Union countries have long set world-leading goals for fighting climate change and boosting renewable technology. But the economic bottom line might have been a bigger concern when they were faced with a trade war with China over green technology. A new E.U.-China deal to set a price floor on cheap Chinese solar panels has opened rifts among European policymakers, manufacturers and environmental advocates, with green energy taking a back seat to broader efforts to defend a fast-growing...
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US Republican enviro-vets: 'Climate change is real. DEAL WITH IT'
2013-08-03 08:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Register: A quartet of former US Environmental Protection Agency administrators have come out in favor of immediate action on anthropogenic climate change and all four worked in conservative Republican administrations. "We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation: the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally," the four wrote in an op-ed piece, "A Republican Case for Climate Action", published in...
USDA Helps Farmers Deal With Climate Change
2013-06-13 22:28:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_227890"); Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke to the National Press Club recently about helping farmers and ranchers deal with climate change. Vilsack said USDA will establish regional cubs to enable the USDA to carry out "regionally appropriate climate change risk and vulnerability assessments." USDA agencies will also give cover crop guidance based on local conditions and is also releasing a free online tool to manage and evaluate carbon to help producers calculate how much carbon their conservation actions can remove from the atmosphere. read more
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