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World leaders to vote on global climate change plan

2015-12-11 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

KCCI: After years of buildup and weeks of negotiations, diplomats issued a final draft of a climate change agreement Saturday that the French foreign minister described as "fair ... and legally binding." If adopted, the agreement would set an ambitious goal of halting average warming at no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures -- and of striving for a limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible. World leaders hailed the draft as a milestone in the battle...

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Global Climate Deal Close to Finishing Line

2015-12-11 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Uncertainty lingered in the latest draft on key issues, including issues of financing for poorer countries, and on how an agreement would differently affect richer and poorer nations. But consensus appeared to growing on what once had been stubborn divides. "We are extremely close to the finishing line,' said the president of the negotiations, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, before the 27-page draft was handed to delegates from nearly 200 nations. "It's time to come to an agreement.' ...

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Calling time on a global climate deal: Fabius's fuzzy 'consensus'

2015-12-10 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: To conclude a landmark global climate agreement expected to set off a trillion-dollar overhaul of the world's high-carbon energy system, there will be no vote, no show of hands, no acclamation. Instead, the weighty task of officially sealing four years of global negotiations falls to the somewhat subjective judgment of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who will call time on talks as soon as he believes 195 nations have finally reached a "consensus" on how to stop the world from warming....

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