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UN members agree deal Lima climate talks
2014-12-14 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks in Lima, Peru, to overrun by two days. Environmental groups said the deal was an ineffectual compromise, but the EU said it was a step towards achieving a global climate deal next year in Paris. The talks proved difficult because of divisions...
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Difficult Lima talks reach acceptable deal on climate change
2014-12-14 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: The annual United Nations climate talks finally wrapped up in Lima, Peru, in the wee hours of Sunday, achieving an acceptable but not satisfying result and leaving unresolved issues to the climate conference in Paris in December 2015. In the past two weeks, negotiators from over 190 countries and organizations gathered in the city hosting the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to negotiate an new agreement addressing...
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UN climate negotiators pass watered-down deal Lima
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: UN climate talks at crossroads on how to fight global warming UN climate change report offers stark warnings, hope Climate change survey reveals Canadians' fears for future generations Negotiators have reached a watered-down deal at U.N. talks in Peru that sets the stage for a global climate pact in Paris next year. The Lima agreement was reached early Sunday after late-night wrangling between rich and poor countries. About 190 nations agreed on the building blocks of a deal to combat climate...
Lima climate change talks avert a disaster
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Standard: "It is so decided,' the Peruvian environment minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidalsaid as his gavel hit the table and the torturous 13 days of UN climate change negotiations ended with 196 countries adopting the document 'Lima Call to Climate Action' at around 1 am on Sunday morning. Several hours of closed door negotiations led by the hosts late on Saturday night brought about a compromise, rescuing the talks from the brink of disaster. However eventually, nothing much had been gained and nothing substantial...
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Lima climate change talks end in agreement - but who won?
2014-12-14 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There was one thing above all others that wealthy countries wanted out of the Lima negotiations and that was a method of accounting for emissions cuts. The issue that mattered above all to developing countries was deciding who should carry the burden of emissions cuts, and getting the money flowing for climate aid. For small island states, acknowledgement of loss and damage due to climate change was critical. All three contingents got what they wanted sort of. The deal reached on Saturday...
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