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UN climate negotiators pass watered-down deal Lima
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: UN climate talks at crossroads on how to fight global warming UN climate change report offers stark warnings, hope Climate change survey reveals Canadians' fears for future generations Negotiators have reached a watered-down deal at U.N. talks in Peru that sets the stage for a global climate pact in Paris next year. The Lima agreement was reached early Sunday after late-night wrangling between rich and poor countries. About 190 nations agreed on the building blocks of a deal to combat climate...
Fossil-fuel limits all nations closer after UN deal
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: A plan to limit fossil-fuel pollution in all nations for the first time came a step closer as envoys from more than 190 countries agreed on the key parts of a deal they plan to adopt next year to fight global warming. After two weeks of discussions in Peru organized by the United Nations, the diplomats agreed on the detail of pledges from all nations on curbing greenhouse gases. Richer countries gave an assurance theyre on track to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate aid by 2020. The decision...
Observers slam 'lackluster' Lima climate deal
2014-12-14 11:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A carbon-curbing deal struck in Lima on Sunday was a watered-down compromise where national intransigence threatened the goal of a pact to save Earth's climate system, green groups said. The hard-fought agreement sets out guidelines for the submission of national greenhouse-gas pledges next year. But, the groups said, initially ambitious standards became weaker the longer the talks wound on. In a tug-of-war between rich and developing nation interests, the end result was a "lackluster plan...
U.N. talks agree building blocks new-style climate deal in 2015
2014-12-14 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: About 190 nations agreed on Sunday the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit increases in global temperatures. Under the deal reached in Lima, governments will submit national plans for reining in greenhouse gas emissions by an informal deadline of March 31, 2015 to form the basis of a global agreement due at a summit in Paris in a year's time. Most of the tough decisions about how to slow...
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UN pushes ahead on 2015 climate deal after marathon
2014-12-14 09:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: UN members pressed ahead Sunday with a vision for a historic pact to defeat climate change by adopting a format for national pledges to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gases. At a marathon conference in Lima, they also approved a blueprint to guide negotiations for the deal due to be sealed in Paris in December 2015. But agreement came after a bitter dispute flared anew, requiring major compromise that campaigners said pointed to a mountain of work ahead. "The document is approved," Peru's...
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