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World Agrees to Historic 'Paris Agreement' to Address Climate Change
2015-12-12 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries reached an agreement Saturday on what they say signifies the most important international pact to address climate change since the issue first emerged as a political priority decades ago. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who headed up the United Nations conference, commonly known as COP 21, said the final deal successfully resolved points of contention that had taken negotiations into overtime and called the agreement the best possible text. We have...
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COP21 climate change summit reaches deal in Paris
2015-12-12 19:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C has been agreed at the climate change summit in Paris after two weeks of negotiations. The deal is the first to commit all countries to cut carbon emissions. The agreement is partly legally binding and partly voluntary. Earlier, key blocs, including the G77 group of developing countries, and nations such as China and India said they supported the proposals. The text agreed accepts that the dangers of climate change are...
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Final climate change deal keeps emissions in check, if it sticks
2015-12-12 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Engadget: After weeks of work, the United Nations is on the cusp of reaching a deal to prevent climate change... hopefully. A just-published final draft agreement sets some clear targets that include a hefty amount of cooperation. The deal would limit the global temperature increase to "well below" 2 Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and reach a balance in greenhouse gas emissions (that is, as many offsets as there are emitters) by the second half of this century. There would be a progress review every...
Bernie Sanders: Paris Climate Change Deal 'Goes Nowhere Near Far Enough'
2015-12-12 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blaze: The Paris climate pact does not go far enough, according to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who also took the opportunity to slam Republicans Saturday morning for caring too much about the fossil fuel industry. In a press release from the Vermont senators campaign Saturday, Sanders said the accord presented to the delegates attending the international climate summit in Paris goes nowhere near far enough to force nations to lower planet-warming carbon emissions. While this...
Encounter with a Climate Change Warrior A Simple Farmer from Kenya
2015-12-12 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
York Daily Record: For the past 9 days, we have been privileged to attend the United Nations Climate Change COP 21 in Paris with a group of York College students and professors supported by the American Chemical Society. We have been within an arms reach of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as he walked right by us on his way to a press conference down the hall, attended the 2015 Winners of the UN Climate Change Solutions Awards Fete where rapper Sean Paul performed, and participated in several scientific briefings...
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