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U.K. Pledges $8.8 Billion in Climate Aid Through to March 2021
2015-09-27 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to increase climate aid by a half in a bid to break the deadlock on one of the thorniest issues dividing developed and developing nations as they seek to broker a new deal to rein in global warming. Britain will channel 5.8 billion pounds ($8.8 billion) of assistance from its overseas-aid budget to its International Climate Fund over the five years through March 2021, Cameron said Sunday in an e-mailed statement. Britain will also try to leverage nearly...
Brazil's Rousseff pledges 37% cut in greenhouse gas emissions
2015-09-27 16:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff on Sunday promised big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. Using 2005 as the baseline level, the reduction target will be 37 percent over the next decade and 43 percent by 2030, she said at a United Nations sustainable development conference. Brazil will take this pledge to the major UN climate conference that will be held in Paris in December, where the goal is for countries to strike a binding, global agreement on how to curb climate change. Specifically,...
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Brazil pledges to slash emissions, but will count old reductions
2015-09-27 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Brazil pledged on Sunday to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent by 2030 as its contribution to a United Nations climate agreement, but said it will include reductions from past efforts against deforestation to help it reach the target. President Dilma Rousseff presented the country's pledges during a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, noting the targets are more ambitious than those of most developed countries and that Brazil will not need external support to achieve them....
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Brazil pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions
2015-09-27 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Brazil on Sunday became the first major developing country to pledge an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for an envisioned global pact against climate change. The world's seventh biggest greenhouse gas polluter said it would cut its emissions by 37 percent by 2025 from 2005 levels by reducing deforestation and boosting the share of renewable sources in its energy mix. It also indicated an "intended reduction" of 43 percent by 2030. "Our goals are just as ambitious, if not more so,...
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China Pledges $2 Billion Help Poor States Meet UN Goals
2015-09-26 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: Chinese President Xi Jinping announced today that Beijing will establish an assistance fund with an initial pledge of $2 billion to help developing countries implement a sweeping global sustainable development agenda over the next 15 years. "China will continue to increase investment in the least developed countries, aiming to increase its total to $12 billion by 2030," Mr Xi told a sustainable development summit of world leaders at the United Nations in New York. "China will exempt the debt...
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