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Paris climate deal must be legally binding, EU tells John Kerry

2015-11-12 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The EU has warned the Obama administration that a global climate deal at the Paris summit must be legally binding, after the US secretary of state John Kerry said that it definitively would not be a treaty The Paris agreement must be an international legally binding agreement, a spokeswoman for the EUs climate commissioner, Miguel Arias Caete , told the Guardian. The title of the agreement is yet to be decided but it will not affect its legally binding form. Earlier today, the French...

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John F. Kerry: Climate Change Also Affects U.S. National Security

2015-11-12 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Tech Times: U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry was at Norfolk's Old Dominion University to talk about climate change, saying it is also a potential threat to national security. Kerry shared that as a former member of the Navy, he was deployed in Southeast Asia, stationed in Vietnam specifically during his second tour. He was assigned as a patrol boat skipper and that brought him to the waterways of the Mekong Delta. He wasn't in the country under complicated circumstances but he could never forget how...

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John Kerry Says Paris Climate Deal Will Not Be Legally Binding: Report

2015-11-11 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NDTV: A crunch climate summit in Paris will not deliver a legally binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Financial Times on Wednesday. "It's definitively not going to be a treaty... They're not going to be legally binding reduction targets like Kyoto or something," Kerry said, according to the newspaper, referring to the 1997 Kyoto protocol committing states to limit emissions. The UN Conference of Parties (COP21) meeting of some 100...

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