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UN chief: Bush deserves credit for climate change 'success'
2015-12-26 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President George W. Bush deserves credit for kickstarting talks that led to a landmark international agreement on climate change, according to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Ban pointed to a 2007 U.N. climate conference in Bali, when the United States pulled an about-face and agreed to enter negotiations on a new global treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The secretary-general told the Associated Press he still feels "very much grateful" to Bush. "That was the beginning of our success,"...
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Indonesia: Climate change and water scarcity
2015-12-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: To the surprise of many, COP21 2015 has finished in Paris with a spectacular achievement. The target is to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. In spite of its success, COP21 ignored the risk of water scarcity, which is closely related to climate change. From the other side, many issues about financing the agreement are left hanging in the air. The...
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Climate Change: A Tale of Two Governors
2015-12-26 06:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FCIR: When Charlie Crist was Florida`s attorney general and preparing to run for governor in 2005, he sat down in a private room at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami with U.S. Sen. John McCain. McCain was gearing up to run for president. The two Republicans talked political campaigns, strategies and endorsements. As Crist was getting ready to leave, McCain stopped him. Charlie, I think there is one more thing you should focus on, Crist recalled McCain saying. What`s that? Crist asked. Climate...
We're late on climate change as it charges on unabated
2015-12-26 06:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald: For all the nations of the world to agree to anything is remarkable enough. To have them take fright and agree to pull in their belts on climate change is as unusual as having them pull together to create the United Nations and other world institutions at the end of the Second World War. Hopefully, the Paris meeting will indeed be the turning point we're looking for. But just as those heady post-Second World War days quickly turned to the Cold War, a hopeful statement of intentions, no matter...
Why Addressing Climate Change Not Enough
2015-12-25 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: This post was coauthored by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, MA, ScD, Ben Brisbois, MES, PhD and Timothy H. Holtz, MD, MPH. The celebratory mood accompanying the recent Paris Accord, in which the entire UN membership agreed to hold global temperature increases to no more than 2°C, is quickly dissipating. As the Accord itself acknowledges, there is a "significant gap" between countries' climate change mitigation pledges and the 2°C goal (not to mention the more aspirational 1.5° C limit). This means that promised...
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