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Zero emissions idea floated by climate 'nerd' getting traction at UN conference in Peru
2014-12-10 21:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Pulling a worn, yellowed copy of the 1992 U.N. climate change convention from her handbag, Farhana Yamin points to the paragraph that states its goal: To stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous warming. It doesn't provide any guidance on how to do that. But Yamin does. And, in a historic first, dozens of governments now embrace her prescription. The global climate pact set for adoption in Paris next year should phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,...
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Draft Agreement Lima Climate Talks Calls for Emissions Cuts by Every Nation
2014-12-10 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A draft agreement calling for all nations to commit to greenhouse gas emissions cuts is circulating among climate negotiators in Lima, Peru, The New York Times reports. The proposed text calls for each of the 196 countries involved in negotiations to publicly commit to its own plan for reducing emissions. Those individual plans, however, will be driven by national politics and economic concerns, rather than by what scientists say is needed to curb the worst effects of climate change, critics say....
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US sees voluntary emissions cuts key climate change accord
2014-12-02 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The United States is championing a new international approach to cutting greenhouse gases that offers the best chance of prompting countries to take action to avert the worst effects of global warming, the nation's chief climate negotiator said Monday. The comments by the State Department's Todd Stern came as United Nations negotiations began in Peru to develop the framework for an international accord to curtail heat-trapping emissions and adapt to changes already occurring on the planet. The...
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Climate change fight affordable, cut emissions zero by 2100: U.N
2014-11-02 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Governments can keep climate change in check at manageable costs but will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2100 to limit risks of irreversible damage, a U.N. report said on Sunday. The 40-page synthesis, summing up 5,000 pages of work by 800 scientists already published since September 2013, said global warming was now causing more heat extremes, downpours, acidifying the oceans and pushing up sea levels. "Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in the message. Leaders must...
Despite California climate law, carbon emissions may be a shell game
2014-10-25 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: California's pioneering climate-change law has a long reach, but that doesn't mean all its mandates will help stave off global warming. To meet the requirement that it cut carbon emissions, for example, Southern California Edison recently sold its stake in one of the West's largest coal-fired power plants, located hundreds of miles out of state. But the Four Corners Generating Station in New Mexico still burns coal only the power that Edison once delivered to California now goes to a different...
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