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China, France Want 5-Year Updates to Climate Pledges
2015-11-03 15:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Chinese and French presidents announced Monday they have agreed that a global climate change pact should require countries to review their emissions pledges every five years, in an important signal four weeks before world leaders meet in Paris. France is proposing the automatic increase of countries' emissions targets in a climate deal to be thrashed out at a U.N. conference beginning at the end of November. French President Francois Hollande said Monday that he and his Chinese counterpart wanted...
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UN climate chief: global emissions pledges not enough yet
2015-10-30 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Governments' emissions-cutting pledges ahead of a global conference in December are a good step toward achieving an international global warming goal, but they aren't yet enough, the U.N. climate chief said Friday. The plans submitted by 146 countries for the climate conference in Paris could cut average global emissions per capita of greenhouse gases by up to 8 percent by 2025 and 9 percent by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, a U.N. assessment found. U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres'...
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Latin America needs stronger climate pledges analysts
2015-10-29 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate pledges by Latin Americas major economies do not go far enough to hold warming below 2C, analysts warned on Thursday. Climate Action Tracker awarded Brazil and Peru a medium rating for their targets, being at the weaker end of a fair contribution to global efforts. That is the same category as the EU, US and China. Offers from Chile and Argentina were branded inadequate, in line with 3-4C of temperature rise from pre-industrial levels. None of these countries will be immune...
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'Historic day': Portland pledges $67 million for affordable housing
2015-10-29 16:37:56| PortlandOnline
Brad Schmidt in The Oregonian, October 28, 2015
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Mars pledges to source sustainable rice by 2020
2015-10-29 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
US-based Mars in partnership with the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) has announced the first global standard for sustainable rice and has pledged to completely source its rice from only those suppliers who meet this standard by 2020.
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