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Modest deal breaks deadlock at UN climate talks
2013-11-23 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Avoiding a last-minute breakdown, annual U.N. climate talks limped forward Saturday with a modest set of decisions meant to pave the way for a new pact to fight global warming. More than 190 countries agreed in Warsaw to start preparing "contributions" for the new deal, which is supposed to be adopted in 2015. That term was adopted after China and India objected to the word "commitments" in a standoff with the U.S. and other developed countries. The fast-growing economies say they are still...
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Rich vs poor deadlock broken at UN climate talks
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive on Saturday when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming. A two-week negotiation in Warsaw had been due to end on Friday, but was blocked over a timetable for the first U.N. climate accord that would set greenhouse gas emissions requirements for all nations. The pact is due to be agreed in 2015 and come into force after 2020. Negotiators finally agreed...
UN climate talks in deadlock over weak finance pledges
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: UN negotiations to develop a global climate treaty in 2015 remain in stasis, with deep divisions between envoys over the levels of responsibility rich and poor countries need to take for global warming. The Warsaw summit was set to conclude on Friday, but ran on throughout the night, with reports of increasingly angry and frustrated discussions behind closed doors. Our expectations have been shattered, we are saddened, said Bangladeshs lead negotiator Quamrul Chowdhury. Speaking for the...
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Deadlock in fractious climate talks
2013-11-23 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: UN climate talks in Poland have ended with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming. After 30 hours of deadlock, they approved a pathway to a new global climate treaty in Paris in 2015. The agreement was achieved after a series of last minute compromises often involving single words in draft texts. Negotiators also made progress on the contentious issue of loss and damage that developing countries are expected to suffer in a warming world. Green groups were angry...
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Fears deadlock at UN climate talks in Warsaw
2013-11-18 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Gloom to match Warsaws overcast skies has descended over the UNs 19th climate change conference, with little progress made during the first week despite the Philippines typhoon disaster and an impassioned plea for urgent action from its climate envoy, Yeb Sano. Hundreds of climate activists braved the chill to march on Saturday from the citys Palace of Culture past the National Stadium, where the conference is being held, to a rally in nearby Skaryszewski Park. Organised by Polands small Green...
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