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Citizen groups walk out of UN Climate Summit to protest lack of ambition
2013-11-21 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Australia, Japan and Poland blamed for sabotaging UN Climate Summit talks. Thirteen citizen groups-including Oxfam, Greenpeace, and WWF-have walked out of ongoing climate talks in Warsaw to protest what they view as a lack of ambition and long-stalled progress on combating global climate change. Nearly 200 governments are currently meeting in Warsaw, Poland at the the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP) for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is meant to prepare the...
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Developing countries walk out of UN climate meeting
2013-11-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RT: The G77+ China group of 133 countries walked out of the United Nations climate change conference in Warsaw on the Loss and Damage mechanism after developed nations refused to agree to terms. In Wednesdays session, G77+ China negotiator Juan Hoffmeister walked out of a closed-door meeting when delegations from the industrial block refused to agree that the mechanism for such compensation is needed now and not after 2015 when a new climate change agreement is expected to be signed in Paris. Hoffmeister...
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133 developing countries walk out of Warsaw talks
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: The G77+China group of 133 countries walked out of negotiations on Loss and Damage at around 3:30 am on Wednesday morning after the rich countries refused to budge from the position that the subject should be discussed only after 2015. The U.S., Australia and Canada have been the most vocal and trenchant advocates against setting up a separate mechanism on Loss and Damage while the E.U., though not belligerent, has also played a part to make sure the mechanism does not materialise at the Warsaw...
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Poor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on
2013-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Representatives of most of the world's poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015. The orchestrated move by the G77 and China bloc of 132 countries came during talks about "loss and damage" how countries should respond to climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to, such...
Shared Interest hosts screening of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
2013-11-20 09:41:08| Airlines - Topix.net
From his book, "Long Walk to Freedom", Nelson Mandela states that "Freedom is indivisible: the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people where the chains on me."
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