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Failure of Paris climate summit would be catastrophic: pope
2015-11-26 13:42:00| 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 on...
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US commerce department backs first Smart Fabrics Summit
2015-11-26 11:58:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Obama administration is to jointly host the first-ever Smart Fabrics Summit in the US next year, in a bid to spur new developments in the sector and encourage the creation of more US manufacturing jobs.
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On eve Paris climate summit, Britain pulls plug on renewables
2015-11-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: After standing dormant for 34 years, the Bankside Power Station was reborn last month. The onetime oil-fired, soot-spewing electric power plant, shut down and then converted into the Tate Modern, the worlds most popular contemporary art museum, is back producing energy again. Its roof has been coated with solar panels, which soak up the suns rays even on a cloudy London afternoon and help illuminate the avant-garde works in the galleries below. But rather than a shiny vision of modernity,...
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UN official: Over 120 leaders to attend Paris climate summit
2015-11-20 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The attacks in Paris are affecting crucial climate change talks in the French capital starting later this month, but more than 120 world leaders strongly support the conference and have confirmed they will attend, a senior U.N. official said Friday. Janos Pasztor, the U.N. assistant secretary-general for climate change, told a news conference that preparations and some activities are affected, including a huge march on Nov. 29 by supporters of an agreement to reduce carbon emissions that has been...
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Republicans ransom US Green Fund pledge ahead of Paris climate summit
2015-11-20 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Republicans are grappling to erode US climate credibility ahead of December`s Paris climate conference as payback for their exclusion from negotiations by President Barack Obama. GOP senators are taking ransom a US$3 billion pledge to the UNs flagship Green Climate Fund which helps developing countries tackle climate change. Unless the Republican-dominated Senate gets a vote on an anticipated new climate agreement, it wont release the $500 million first tranche. Americas contribution...
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