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Companies to make climate pledges at U.N. summit
2014-09-22 05:44:51| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Touted as the world's largest gathering ever on climate change, this week's U.N. Climate Summit will be as much about business as politics. Major companies, including Big Oil, will make pledges to help fight global warming by cutting their heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, protecting the world's forests and reducing methane leakage from fossil fuel production.
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International summit just a first step climate change
2014-09-22 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As President Obama and more than 100 other heads of state gather Tuesday in New York to spotlight the severity of global warming and the need to act on it, the scene will be more pep rally than policy negotiation. The meeting is a launchpad for the work of crafting an international agreement that could reduce emissions enough to mute the predicted painful blows of climate change. Negotiators aim to adopt an agreement in Paris next year. "The stakes are extremely high," said Selwin Hart, director...
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Barack Obama readies climate change push at UN summit
2014-09-21 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations, with time running out on his hopes of leaving a lasting environmental legacy. Obama has warned that failure to act on climate change would be a "betrayal" of future generations, but faced with a Congress reluctant to even limit greenhouse gas emissions -- let alone ratify an international agreement -- his options appear limited. Tuesday`s climate...
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UN climate summit: fair share system proposed to cut global emissions
2014-09-21 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Wealthy nations must do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions than their poorer neighbours if devastating climate change is to be avoided, according to a new study. The ClimateFairshare project, an analysis from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Friends of the Earth, calculates how much financial support developed countries should offer for developing countries decarbonisation efforts. Based on historical emissions and nations populations and wealth, it puts forward a balanced...
With UN Climate Summit Opening, Marches Planned Around the World
2014-09-21 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Two days before a United Nations summit on climate change, people are marching in cities around the world Sunday to urge their leaders to act boldly to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving the changes. The "People's Climate March" comes just before more than 120 heads of state will gather in New York City for the summit, convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. He wants to urge heads of state to act decisively by switching to cleaner sources of energy, preventing deforestation,...
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