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Emissions targets are biggest challenge for Lima climate talks
2014-12-02 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As this years UN climate change conference opens in Lima, Peru, a series of unexpected political developments in recent months has created a mood of surprising optimism. But dark clouds remain. First came the UN Climate Summit in September, and the huge public mobilisation which accompanied it. With nearly 400,000 people marching on the streets of New York, and hundreds of thousands more in cities around the world, the assembled leaders were warned that climate change was no longer an issue they...
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UN Climate talks kicked off in Lima
2014-12-01 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Amid hope to seal the climate deal in Paris next year, crucial negotiation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was kicked off in Peruvian capital on Monday with key UN body appealing the world to step up their actions to deal with disastrous consequences of global warming. How much burden each of the nations would share to save the world may be known only later in the run up to the Paris meeting, the current meetings - called COP20 (20th edition of the Conference...
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UN climate talks in Lima: it's about trust
2014-12-01 00:05:05| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE efforts have smashed their way into the Australian policy debate in recent months. The United Nations Secretary General's climate summit in September was closely followed by announcements on post-2020 emission reduction targets from the USA, China and the EU. Climate change became a central discussion at the Brisbane G20. These developments highlight the political momentum building towards the UN meeting in Paris next year, where countries will seek to agree a long-term...
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Only a few drops of water at the Lima Climate Summit
2014-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Although it is one of the victims of global warming, water will not be given a place of importance at the COP20 climate change conference to be held Dec. 1-12 in Lima, Peru. Climate change already threatens water supplies for agriculture due to the reduction in the availability of fresh water, which is expected to be aggravated over the next decades. It also causes drought, torrential rainfall, flooding and a rise in the sea level, which together affect the global water situation. "Water is...
Lima climate change talks best chance for a generation, say upbeat diplomats
2014-11-30 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: UN climate negotiations opening in Lima on Monday have the best chance in a generation of striking a deal on global warming, diplomats say. After a 20-year standoff, diplomats and longtime observers of the talks say there is rising optimism that negotiators will be able to secure a deal that will commit all countries to take action against climate change. The two weeks of talks in Peru are intended to deliver a draft text to be adopted in Paris next year that will commit countries to reduce...
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