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China, US and Europe pledge support for global aviation emissions pact
2016-09-05 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China, the United States and Europe all pledged support on Saturday for a new deal to curb carbon dioxide emissions by airlines which is due to be finalised at a meeting of the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in September and is expected to go into effect from 2021. Aviation was excluded from last December's climate accord in Paris when countries agreed to limit the global average rise in in temperatures to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial...
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G20 summit: 'China cannot go it alone' on world economy
2016-09-05 01:52:14| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
China is hosting the G20 summit where it hopes to increase its say in the global economy, but a senior Chinese banker says it knows "dominance will not create a great leader".
Spotlight on India after US, China ratify Paris climate deal
2016-09-04 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DNA: Although the ratification will not affect US or China majorly, it would put some pressure on India. In a move that has surprised many, the United States and China have ratified the historic Paris climate deal on the eve of the G-20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, and two months prior to the upcoming climate conference in Marrakesh, Morocco. The development has now pushed India into the spotlight, which is the world's fourth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and which accounts for 4.1% of the emissions....
Climate change agreement - US and China must work on emissions
2016-09-04 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Examiner: THE problem about agreeing on paper to save the planet is the difficulty of actually getting down to the business of doing it in reality. That said, there can be no doubt people around the globe who care about the environment will applaud the move by America and China to ratify the Paris Climate change agreement aimed at saving Earth. With scientists at the coalface of this looming crisis warning that the world is now in grave danger of drowning in its own pollution, it would be hard to exaggerate...
UN chief praises China, US climate change deal
2016-09-04 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says climate change scepticism is over, after the U.S. joined China to ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
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