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Final climate change deal keeps emissions in check, if it sticks
2015-12-12 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Engadget: After weeks of work, the United Nations is on the cusp of reaching a deal to prevent climate change... hopefully. A just-published final draft agreement sets some clear targets that include a hefty amount of cooperation. The deal would limit the global temperature increase to "well below" 2 Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and reach a balance in greenhouse gas emissions (that is, as many offsets as there are emitters) by the second half of this century. There would be a progress review every...
Paris climate deal must tackle shipping emissions, say experts
2015-12-05 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A Paris climate agreement must not let ships off the hook for their greenhouse gas emissions, delegates heard at a side event of COP21 on Saturday. Accounting for 2-3% of global emissions today, the sector`s share is projected to grow to 6-14% by 2050 as the International Maritime Organization (IMO) refuses to cap carbon. If not addressed, this will make it hard to meet a UN goal to hold global warming to 2C or even 1.5C, experts warned. Tony de Brum, foreign minister of the Marshall Islands,...
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Developing nations shift emissions stance in climate talks
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The once black-and-white world of climate negotiations for poorer countries has evolved into many shades of gray at talks this week in Paris. For years, many in the developing world said richer countries created the global warming problem with their industrial emissions so it is up to them to clean it up -- a sticking point in past climate negotiations. But there's no way that global warming can be kept below the international goal of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial...
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China to stake leadership claim on climate change, emissions reduction at Paris UN conference
2015-11-28 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Despite pumping as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the next four biggest polluters combined, China will use this week's UN conference in Paris to stake a global leadership claim on climate change. Six years on from the disappointing Copenhagen conference, where China was seen by the West as largely impeding a binding agreement, Beijing is bringing a raft of ambitious commitments to the table. Chief among them, a state-led investment drive for renewables with an aim of sourcing 20...
Shorten promises zero emissions climate change policy for Australia under Labor government
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Australia will aim for an ambitious net zero pollution target by 2050 under a Labor elected government, Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten has declared. The announcement came as Shorten also criticised Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ahead of the United Nations Climate Summit for flying to Paris carrying Tony Abbotts climate-sceptic baggage. Speaking on Friday during a press conference at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, Shorten stated that Labor believed zero emissions...
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