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Speakers Upbeat About Future at ENRs Western Water Summit
2014-12-01 06:00:00| ENR.com: Headline News
Despite historic drought, utilities and engineering firms finding solution to meet future demands.
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Only a few drops of water at the Lima Climate Summit
2014-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Although it is one of the victims of global warming, water will not be given a place of importance at the COP20 climate change conference to be held Dec. 1-12 in Lima, Peru. Climate change already threatens water supplies for agriculture due to the reduction in the availability of fresh water, which is expected to be aggravated over the next decades. It also causes drought, torrential rainfall, flooding and a rise in the sea level, which together affect the global water situation. "Water is...
UN climate change talks in Lima to set stage Paris summit
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio Australia: Representatives from almost 200 nations have begun arrive in Peru for UN climate talks that get underway on Monday. Representatives from almost 200 nations have begun arriving in the Peruvian capital, Lima, for UN climate talks that get underway on Monday. Delegates will meet for 10 days to work on a new deal to limit rising greenhouse gas emissions, meant to be agreed at a summit in Paris in December next year. Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework...
Hollande aims for 'historic' climate pact at 2015 summit
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: French President François Hollande on Thursday urged the world's nations to make history in Paris next year by signing a globally binding climate pact he hopes to leave as his government's legacy. The French capital is hosting a UN conference in December 2015 that aims for the first time to seal a binding universal agreement on cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions in a bid to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. "I have been asked when I became an environmentalist," Hollande told a conference...
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Ahead of Peru climate summit, cautious hope strong draft text
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The two-week United Nations climate conference in Peru, which begins Monday, is the final pit stop before Paris in 2015, where negotiators aim to strike a deal obligating, for the first time, all countries to combat climate change. The Lima talks are expected to deliver a draft text to be negotiated and finalized in Paris next year. Nations aim to chart a course for unprecedented action on reducing carbon emissions, while ensuring that developing nations' goals of economic growth to bring millions...
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