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Obama says Paris deal 'best chance to save planet'
2015-12-12 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: US President Barack Obama has hailed the landmark climate accord reached in Paris as strong and historic, calling it the best chance to save the planet from the effects of global climate change. "Today the American people can be proud because this historic agreement is a tribute to American leadership. Over the past seven years, we've transformed the United States into the global leader in fighting climate change," Obama said on Saturday.Read more: Will the climate deal be enough to save the planet?He...
Nations strike historic deal climate change
2015-12-12 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Delegates from 195 countries approved on Saturday a historic climate accord that seeks to slow the rise of greenhouse gasses blamed for putting Earth on a dangerous warming path. Called the Paris Agreement, the document is the result of five sets of grueling negotiations this year. It seeks to limit rising temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial levels through the year 2100. It also keeps the door open to a more ambitious 1.5-degree (2.7 degrees...
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Climate change: Will '1.5 to stay alive' deal enough save Seychelles?
2015-12-12 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Each time the Seychelles roving ambassador for climate change returns home to the islands, he notices new clumsy piles of rocks disfiguring the beaches. Local people are blowing up the mountains inland, using the rocks to protect the sand from being swept out to sea by storm surges. I will be in New York three or four months, go home and see the beach and will ask people: What happened?, said Ronald Jumeau, the ambassador for climate change who is based at the United Nations mission. And...
Paris climate deal is agreed but is it really good enough?
2015-12-12 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: History has been made in Paris - but perhaps not the kind of history we hoped. The climate summit in Paris may come to be remembered as the moment when the world`s leaders let the last hope of limiting warming to 2 °C slip away from us. The Paris agreement, which covers the period 2020 to 2030, is a better deal than many expected, and if countries stick both to the spirit and the letter of the agreement, it could give us a good chance of limiting global warming to under 4 °C and perhaps even under...
Paris climate deal: nearly 200 nations sign in end fossil fuel era
2015-12-12 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments have signalled an end to the fossil fuel era, committing for the first time to a universal agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change at crunch UN talks in Paris. After 20 years of fraught meetings, including the past two weeks spent in an exhibition hall on the outskirts of Paris, negotiators from nearly 200 countries signed on to a deal on Saturday evening that set ambitious goals to limit temperature rise and to hold governments...
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