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China to set up climate change fund
2015-12-12 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fiji Times: CHINA is preparing to establish a fund for south-south co-operation on climate change. Speaking to Pacific Island journalists in Beijing last week, the People's Republic of China Foreign Affairs counsellor Zhao Jian said China understood and respected the concerns of PICs on this issue. "We know that climate change is a very important issue for island countries," he said. "We can say that in the international arena we always maintain consultation with island countries to see what we can do together...
Climate change draft finalised in Paris
2015-12-12 05:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change has neared the finish line with a draft agreement completed in Paris. After nearly two weeks of tough haggling between bureaucrats and ministers from around the world, French and UN officials have completed a line-by-line edit of an historic agreement that seeks to slow global warming and ease its impacts. 'We have a text to present,' an official in the office of Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who presides over the...
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World leaders to vote on global climate change plan
2015-12-11 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KCCI: After years of buildup and weeks of negotiations, diplomats issued a final draft of a climate change agreement Saturday that the French foreign minister described as "fair ... and legally binding." If adopted, the agreement would set an ambitious goal of halting average warming at no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures -- and of striving for a limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible. World leaders hailed the draft as a milestone in the battle...
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Climate change deal: India emerges key player Paris talks
2015-12-11 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Express: India has emerged as key player in the negotiations for a crucial climate change deal in Paris that has entered the final phase, according to a media report. India hit back at developed countries that have been accusing it of refusing to yield ground on emissions and funding, saying they were not showing flexibility and posing roadblocks for a comprehensive climate deal, deadline for which was extended by a day yesterday. With just hours remaining before negotiators hopes to close a deal addressing...
Virginia Islanders US First Climate Change Refugees
2015-12-11 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: For Tangier Island, Va., lifelong resident Claudia Parks, climate change is a direct threat to her golf cart. As flooding and erosion have worsened on the Chesapeake Bay island in recent decades, the tour director with a broad smile avoids certain saturated roads at least 15 times in the spring and fall during tidal events on her regular work route. That involves getting visitors past the local ice cream shops, white picket fences and marshy hills that dot this car-free fishing community. When...
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