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Activists rally in Boston as world leaders reach global climate change agreement
2015-12-13 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WCVB: President Obama issued a statement regarding the global climate change agreement accepted by world leaders Saturday. Nearly 200 nations adopt the first global pact to fight global warming. It aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius between now and the year 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels. "Today the American people can be proud because this historic agreement is a tribute to American leadership," said Obama in his statement from...
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Paris Accord Considers Climate Change as a Factor in Mass Migration
2015-12-12 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The two-week United Nations climate conference outside Paris that drew to an end on Saturday focused on many of the physical dangers associated with climate change: extreme weather, severe drought, the warming of oceans, rain forest destruction and disruptions to the food supply. But global warming has already had another effect - the large-scale displacement of people - that has been an ominous, politically sensitive undercurrent in the talks and side events here. Scientists have said that...
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Historic Climate Change Agreement Adopted Paris
2015-12-12 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: After two weeks of tense talks, word-wrangling and marathon overnight meetings, diplomats in Paris agreed to a global climate change accord on Saturday evening -- a day after the summit's scheduled conclusion. Leaders and experts cheered the historic agreement that emerged from the 21st Conference of the Parties, or COP21, calling it ambitious and realistic, and a crucial step in protecting the Earth for future generations. "The decisive deal for the planet is here," French President François...
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Nations strike historic deal climate change
2015-12-12 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Delegates from 195 countries approved on Saturday a historic climate accord that seeks to slow the rise of greenhouse gasses blamed for putting Earth on a dangerous warming path. Called the Paris Agreement, the document is the result of five sets of grueling negotiations this year. It seeks to limit rising temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial levels through the year 2100. It also keeps the door open to a more ambitious 1.5-degree (2.7 degrees...
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Climate change: Will '1.5 to stay alive' deal enough save Seychelles?
2015-12-12 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Each time the Seychelles roving ambassador for climate change returns home to the islands, he notices new clumsy piles of rocks disfiguring the beaches. Local people are blowing up the mountains inland, using the rocks to protect the sand from being swept out to sea by storm surges. I will be in New York three or four months, go home and see the beach and will ask people: What happened?, said Ronald Jumeau, the ambassador for climate change who is based at the United Nations mission. And...
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