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U.N. climate talks: Four countries behaving badly
2013-11-18 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: There have been more disappointments than encouraging signs at the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, which have just passed the halfway mark. They`re intended to lay the groundwork for a new global climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, but it`s not going well so far. Rich countries are not outlining how they will fund the planned $100-billion-a-year Green Climate Fund. Discussions involving agriculture have been taken off the table, even though farming reforms could substantially reduce...
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Show us the money, demand developing countries
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: The first week of negotiations at the Climate Change Conference (COP19) in Warsaw, were dominated by how and when the US$100 billion, promised to tackle the effects of climate change, would be made available. The head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres said the ongoing discussions looked at how the $100 billion would be mobilized before 2020 as well as after 2020, when the new 2015 global climate agreement would come into force. I hope that here...
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Poor countries in dark on climate finance
2013-11-14 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Greater transparency, accountability and a plan that sets out how countries will increase funding is essential. At the 2009 climate change conference in Copenhagen, key promises by developed countries to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in climate finance saved the event from total disaster. The specific commitments were: developed countries would provide 30 billion USD over the course of 2010-2012 as 'fast start' finance to help developing countries in the fight against climate change;...
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Richest countries spent $74 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2011
2013-11-13 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In 2011, the top 11 richest carbon emitters spent an estimated $74 billion on fossil fuel subsidies, or seven times the amount spent on fast-track climate financing to developing nations, according to a recent report by the Overseas Development Institute. Worldwide, nations spent over half a trillion dollars on fossil fuel subsidies in 2011 according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). "The status quo encourages energy companies to continue burning high-carbon fossil fuels and offers no...
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US Apparel Imports from TPP Countries (Statistical Report)
2013-11-13 18:36:03| EmergingTextiles.com
The TPP negotiations are expected to be completed by the first half next year and will boost US apparel imports from Vietnam. Other TPP countries should not get a decisive advantage from the free trade agreement. Our statistical report details shipments to US market from TPP countries, compared with China and CAFTA-DR.
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