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Trudeau pledges $2.65B to climate change fund at Commonwealth summit
2015-11-27 18:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Canada is making a five-year, $2.65 billion contribution to help developing countries tackle climate change. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement Friday at the summit of Commonwealth leaders in Malta, where the battle against global warming is becoming the dominant issue. The money is part of Canada's commitment towards an international climate fund seeking to raise US$100 billion annually by 2020. "Canada is back and ready to play its part in combating climate change and...
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Paris climate summit: Will nations make bigger cuts after Paris?
2015-11-27 18:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Paris is just the start. The aim is to ratchet up the action in the coming years Any deal signed in Paris will establish a floor rather than a ceiling for cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, says chief UN negotiator Christiana Figueres. The idea is that every five years or so, countries will be asked to review their targets to see if they can do more. The details of this "ratcheting mechanism" have yet to be agreed, but it would have to be entirely voluntary to win support. However,...
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Climate crunch to dominate Commonwealth summit
2015-11-27 07:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The 2015 Commonwealth Summit kicks off on Friday to a grand opening ceremony with Queen Elizabeth, followed by intense working sessions where world leaders will grapple with climate change. As the clock ticks to a UN climate conference in Paris starting Monday, leaders including France's Francois Hollande, Britain's David Cameron and the UN's Ban Ki-moon will try to open the door to a landmark accord for taming greenhouse gases. "We look towards Paris and an agreement that will determine the...
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Paris climate summit: Can deal be reached at the UNs meeting?
2015-11-26 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: A deal looks likely the political will is there The countries that signed up to the 1992 climate convention the Conference of the Parties or COP in diplomatese started meeting every year in 1995. The third COP meeting established the Kyoto Protocol, to run until 2012. The infamous 2009 meeting in Copenhagen failed to extend the protocol beyond 2012. A major sticking point, as ever, was trying to get industrialised countries to sign up to bigger cuts when developing nations were allowed...
Failure of Paris climate summit would be 'catastrophic': pope
2015-11-26 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis on Thursday warned of a "catastrophic" outcome if vested interests blocked an agreement to tackle climate change at the UN talks opening in Paris next week. "In a few days, an important meeting on climate change will be held in Paris... It would be sad, and I dare say even catastrophic, were particular interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and projects," he said ahead of the summit which officially starts...
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