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Paris climate change deal: Protesters mark red lines symbolise lines they don't want negotiators to cross
2015-12-12 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Thousands of protesters gathered in central Paris on Saturday for what was dubbed a 'red line protest', while in the suburbs of the French capital a draft climate deal was announced. Groups of climate activists at the demonstration carried giant red banners to symbolise 'the red lines' that they don't want negotiators to cross in trying to reach an international accord to fight global warming. Activists called attention to populations threatened by melting glaciers, rising seas and expanding...
Paris climate change agreement: proposed deal at a glance
2015-12-12 16:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The final text of the climate change draft agreement has been released - but what does it all mean? Here are the key elements of the divisive proposed deal, which has been both hailed as "the end of the fossil fuel era" and condemned as a disaster since the final draft was released on Saturday afternoon. 1. A long-term goal to limit global warming to 2C, or 1.5C if possible The agreement aims to limit the increase in global average temperatures to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels...
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A historic climate-change deal has been unveiled Paris
2015-12-12 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: After months of preparation and weeks of negotiation, world leaders have reached a climate-change deal at this year's Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris. It is the most ambitious international agreement ever to face up to the threat of global warming, as the final text of the deal makes clear. Here are the main points: An aim to keep global mean temperature within 1.5°C of that which existed before the industrial era. This is a more ambitious goal that the 2°C goal that nearly 200 governments...
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Nearly 200 nations near historic deal to slow global warming
2015-12-12 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: France presented what it called a "final draft" of an unprecedented deal to slow global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the levels that nature can absorb, and urged negotiators from nearly 200 nations to approve it Saturday. If the pact known as "the Paris agreement" is approved, countries would be committed to keeping the rise in global temperatures by the year 2100 compared with pre-industrial times "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and "endeavor to limit"...
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Planned UN climate deal blow to fossil fuels: green groups
2015-12-12 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A global accord to tame global warming pending approval at UN talks in Paris on Saturday would be a huge blow to the fossil-fuel industry, Greenpeace and other prominent environment groups said. "The wheel of climate action turns slowly, but in Paris it has turned. This deal puts the fossil fuel industry on the wrong side of history," Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo said. Greenpeace, major green groups and climate change researchers gave a mixed report card on the many...
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