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Lima climate deal: what was agreed what wasn't
2014-12-15 10:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: UN climate negotiations wrapped up in Lima on Sunday with a modest agreement about the building blocks of a deal due to be agreed on in Paris in a years time. Following are details of the agreements: Greenhouse gas plans All countries will be asked to submit plans for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or INDCs, to the United Nations by an informal deadline of 31 March 2015, as the core of a Paris deal. But there will be few obligations...
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Weak deal at Lima climate talks disappoints climate hawks
2014-12-15 07:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The U.N. climate summit kicked off two weeks ago with an unfamiliar sense of optimism, invigorated by the recent agreement between the United States and China. But it ended with an all-too-familiar sense of disappointment. On early Sunday morning, delegates delivered a vague, four-page document that does little more than set the terms for what the parties will be battling over at the next big summit in Paris a year from now. After two weeks huddled in sweaty, sweltering tents (yes, many a greenhouse...
Paris climate summit tougher job after modest Lima deal
2014-12-15 07:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Paris summit in 2015 will face a tougher task to agree a U.N. deal to slow climate change after the hopes of many that cooperation between Washington and Beijing would be a magic key to end global gridlock dissolved in chaotic preparatory talks in Lima. At best, Paris may be a chance to reform a sprawling system of annual U.N. talks - more than 11,000 delegates attended the two-week talks in a tent city in Lima - and find ways to boost long-term action to stem rising greenhouse gas emissions....
Deal reached on free basic accounts
2014-12-15 01:01:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A new fee-free template for basic UK bank accounts has been revealed by the Treasury after a deal with major banks.
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UN climate change deal in Peru attacked environmental activists weak ineffectual
2014-12-14 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The UN climate deal agreed between nearly 200 countries in the early hours of Sunday morning was welcomed by politicians but environmentalists and climate activists denounced it as both weak and ineffectual. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks in Lima, Peru to overrun by more than a day before a compromise was finally struck. For the first time, developing and developed nations have all signed up to publishing their national plans for curbing carbon dioxide emissions,...
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