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What the Paris climate deal means for clothing
2015-12-17 10:26:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The global clothing industry should engage with the new Paris climate change deal, say experts, who warn that a warming planet imperils not only the raw materials the industry needs but also poses an existential threat to the sector's prevailing business model.
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The Paris climate deal can't succeed without cities
2015-12-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
City Lab: The 21st time was the charm. After two decades of trying, the UNs climate change institution locked down international consensus from rich and poor nations alike to fundamentally change the ways humans power their activities. Almost 200 countries committed to voluntary greenhouse gas reduction targets and pledged to revisit them at regular intervals to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. Its a deal that knows it isnt perfect, and takes steps to get better with time. And just...
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Paris climate deal paves way further science
2015-12-14 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: A deal to reduce global emissions and help the world adapt to climate change was signed in Paris on 12 December -- with earlier concerns that science would be ignored allayed by new promises. The agreement, signed by 195 countries, states the "aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible'. Nations will cut their emissions "rapidly' and "in accordance with best available science' to reach a "balance' between manmade emissions and carbon removals from the atmosphere...
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A climate deal, 6 fateful years in the making
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: It took almost two weeks for negotiators from 195 countries to finally pass the landmark climate accord this weekend after several espresso-fueled all-nighters and long, passionate debates over the meaning of a single word, such as "shall." But the story of how the deal came together started long before that - in December 2009, with the failure of the last such summit meeting, in Copenhagen. That gathering was, in hindsight, a case study in how not to do a deal. The hosts of the event had set...
Climate deal 'where work begins'
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Zealand Herald: A global climate change deal has been hailed in New Zealand as a historic step, but scientists and environmentalists say the deal now needs to be backed with action. The Paris Agreement, signed by 197 countries yesterday morning (NZ time) after two weeks of negotiations, was described by Climate Change Minister Tim Groser as a "huge and historic step forward". It is the first global agreement on climate change and all member countries are committed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C this...
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