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Africa hopes Lima meeting will re-energize climate talks

2014-11-27 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Deutsche Welle: At the upcoming UN climate change meeting in Lima (COP 20), African groups are hoping that progress can be made towards the goal of reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions. COP 20 - the acronym for the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - begins in Lima, Peru, on December 1, 2014. It is seen by environmental experts as a crucial springboard to COP 21 in Paris a year later, where it is hoped a binding and universal agreement on limiting the effects...

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What's At Stake in Lima Climate Talks

2014-11-27 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: It's nearly time for a reboot on global climate action. The Kyoto Protocol of 2008 through 2012 succeeded in introducing the world to the concept of coordinated climate action. Aside from creating a weak European carbon market, however, it did little to actually ratchet greenhouse gas levels. Nations that met their obligations under the protocol did so with the help of economic downturns. The U.S. never ratified the pact. Canada eventually withdrew, avoiding repercussions for the climate-changing...

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China insists rich nations must do more at Lima climate meeting

2014-11-25 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Developed countries must do more than their less wealthy counterparts to tackle climate change, the world's biggest polluter China said on Tuesday, reaffirming its longstanding position before a United Nations climate conference next month. The meeting, to be held in the Peruvian capital Lima from December 1 to 12, is intended to pave the way for a global deal on cutting Earth-warming carbon emissions to be agreed next year in Paris as a replacement for the Kyoto treaty. China earlier this month...

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'India firming up stand it will present at Lima conference'

2014-11-10 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Economic Times: India was firming up its stand which it will present in the crucial UN conference on climate change to be held in Peruvian capital Lima next month, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. The minister also ruled out there was any "confusion" in the government over the stand to be taken at the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) when asked about the reported remarks by India's 'sherpa' for G-20 Suresh Prabhu that aligning with China on climate issue...

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