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Nearly 200 countries near historic accord to slow global warming by reducing emissions
2015-12-12 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: France crafted an unprecedented deal to slow global warming by cutting and then eliminating greenhouse gas pollution, urging climate negotiators from nearly 200 nations to adopt it Saturday. If the pact known as "the Paris agreement" is approved, countries would be committed to keeping the rise in global temperatures by the year 2100 compared with pre-industrial times "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and "endeavor to limit" them even more, to 1.5 degrees Celsius. That was...
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Nations on the Brink of Landmark Climate Accord in Paris
2015-12-12 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Representatives of 195 countries faced the prospect on Saturday of turning the final draft of a landmark climate accord into a legal document that would, for the first time, commit nearly every country to lowering greenhouse gas emissions as a way to help stave off the most drastic effects of climate change. Delegates who have been negotiating intensely in this Paris suburb for two weeks were presented with the final draft of the document Saturday afternoon, after a tense morning when the text was...
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France: Final Text of Climate Accord Expected Within Hours
2015-12-12 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The final text of an international pact to fight global warming was expected to be released within hours, a French official said early Saturday, after negotiators leaving a meeting with France's foreign minister expressed optimism that success was within reach. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius aimed to present a new draft of the elusive accord Saturday at 11:30 a.m. (1030 GMT), the French official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to be publicly named...
Bangladesh Alliance and Accord to receive "no extension"
2015-12-11 16:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Bangladesh Government has said it will not allow the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety to extend their inspection periods beyond 2018, claiming that most apparel factories in the country are now compliant with building and safety standards.
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World powers lead frenetic final push for climate accord
2015-12-11 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: World powers led a frenetic final push Friday to seal a UN accord aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, as sleep-deprived envoys battled in Paris over trillion-dollar disputes blocking a deal. The 195-nation conference in Paris had been scheduled to wrap up on Friday, delivering a historic agreement that would brake global warming and ease its impacts. But weary negotiators braced themselves for a third straight round of all-night haggling after ministers wrestled with a myriad of...
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