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International finance vital in climate change fight
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangkok Post: A vital round of United Nations climate change negotiations will get under way in Lima, Peru, from Monday to Dec 12. This will mark a significant milestone for the crucial Paris Summit on climate change that is a year away. The summit will determine if a new global deal on climate is possible. As government negotiators return to the annual climate negotiations, they take with them exciting new developments in climate finance and planning from Asia and the Pacific. At the climate talks in Lima,...
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OPEC in age of climate change
2014-11-28 14:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Thursday's OPEC meeting in Vienna was widely billed as the most important in years. OPEC ministers decided to resist calls to cut their oil production in response to the fall in oil prices since June. After three years of holding steady around $110 a barrel, oil had dropped below $80. Within minutes of their decision, the price fell by another $5. This was in large part a contest between OPEC and US frackers for power over the oil market. With the new technology of hydraulic fracturing, US oil...
How could man intervene to change the climate?
2014-11-28 02:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Imagine the trouble that would ensue if China resorted to desperate measures to cool its climate but the result was that the Indian Monsoon suddenly failed. Or that India tried to head off a rise in temperatures only to find that Pakistan suffered from massive flooding. Or that the United States took drastic action to fight global warming and then saw that great tracts of Africa were suddenly left without any rain. These are some of the nightmare scenarios conjured up by the latest thinking...
UN climate change deal must have legally binding targets, says EU
2014-11-27 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An international deal on global warming must have legally binding targets, Europe will argue at a UN climate summit in Peru next week. The Lima conference is intended to deliver the first draft of an accord to cut carbon emissions and stave off dangerous climate change, which is expected to be signed at a UN conference in Paris next year. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior EU official in Brussels said that the bloc had not abandoned its position that any agreement on emissions cuts...
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Delegates to Peru climate change conference to use "green" cars
2014-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Some 10,000 delegates attending a UN climate change conference in the Peruvian capital of Lima next month will get around in ecological cars, the state Andina news agency reported Wednesday. A total of 171 electric and hybrid cars, worth 10.2 million U.S. dollars, will shuttle participants to the upcoming conference on Dec. 1-12, the report said. The use of the "green" cars is an example of Peru's efforts in cutting greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate global warming, Peruvian Foreign Minister...
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