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A generation of progress climate change
2015-12-12 18:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Here is a look at the major global conferences on climate change over the past 23 years: Rio de Janeiro 1992: For the first time, countries agree at an Earth Summit that climate change represents a "serious worldwide risk." The UNFCCC, the United Nation's climate organization, was created. Berlin 1995: The first U.N. Conference of the Parties, or COP-1, summit is held. Children play around a big globe in Kyoto, Japan, on Nov. 29, 1997 in advance of the opening of the 3rd Conference of Parties...
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Paris climate change deal: Protesters mark red lines symbolise lines they don't want negotiators to cross
2015-12-12 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Thousands of protesters gathered in central Paris on Saturday for what was dubbed a 'red line protest', while in the suburbs of the French capital a draft climate deal was announced. Groups of climate activists at the demonstration carried giant red banners to symbolise 'the red lines' that they don't want negotiators to cross in trying to reach an international accord to fight global warming. Activists called attention to populations threatened by melting glaciers, rising seas and expanding...
Paris climate change agreement: proposed deal at a glance
2015-12-12 16:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The final text of the climate change draft agreement has been released - but what does it all mean? Here are the key elements of the divisive proposed deal, which has been both hailed as "the end of the fossil fuel era" and condemned as a disaster since the final draft was released on Saturday afternoon. 1. A long-term goal to limit global warming to 2C, or 1.5C if possible The agreement aims to limit the increase in global average temperatures to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels...
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Paris talks overlooking immediate threats, say climate change activists video
2015-12-12 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change activists express their disappointment on Saturday at the final draft of the COP21 climate deal saying that it was too little, too late. Guillaume Durin, an activist from French environmental collective Alternatiba,says people are already affected by climate change and that the agreement is a way of delaying meaningful action
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Delegates react to the Paris climate change text video
2015-12-12 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Key delegates give their thoughts on the final text of the COP21 draft climate deal after it was revealed by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday morning. Some delegates had yet to see the text, which now needs to be approved by nearly 200 participating countries
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