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UNs pitch for global aviation deal lands in Netherlands
2016-04-03 21:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The UNs aviation body will hold consultations on a new greenhouse gas deal for the sector in the Netherlands and Mexico this week, as it seeks to develop a consensus on a proposed global pact. Last month the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) visited Egypt, Senegal and Indonesia to register views. In 2009 the industry pledged to cap emissions at 2020 levels, but is yet to agree on a market-based approach to deliver this. According to the Brussels-based Transport and Environment...
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Finance must seize UN's development opportunity in 2016
2015-11-30 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: When it formally adopted its new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September, the United Nations might as well have given them a subtitle - sustainable investment goals. According to a working paper prepared for the UN, these new 2030 development targets will require $2 trillion-$3 trillion in new investment annually - at least a tenth of the $22 trillion that the world stashes away in savings every year, according to the UN paper. In 2016 and beyond, financial institutions have an unprecedented...
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Paris climate summit: Can deal be reached at the UNs meeting?
2015-11-26 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: A deal looks likely the political will is there The countries that signed up to the 1992 climate convention the Conference of the Parties or COP in diplomatese started meeting every year in 1995. The third COP meeting established the Kyoto Protocol, to run until 2012. The infamous 2009 meeting in Copenhagen failed to extend the protocol beyond 2012. A major sticking point, as ever, was trying to get industrialised countries to sign up to bigger cuts when developing nations were allowed...
UNs climate fund releases $183m to tackle global warming
2015-11-06 19:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The head of the UNs climate fund has hailed a paradigm shift as poor countries began receiving money to help them tackle global warming, weeks before climate talks take place in Paris. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is intended to be the major conduit for funding to flow from wealthy economies built on fossil fuels to those that will suffer most from climate change they did not cause. On Friday at its board meeting in Zambia, the fund released $183m (122m) for eight projects in Asia, Africa...
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UNs chief environment scientist: UK appears abandoned its leadership on climate change
2015-10-19 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UN`s chief environment scientist Prof Jacquie McGlade, has criticised UK cuts in subsidies for renewable energy. This follows the government`s decision after election to cut support for renewables and give tax breaks to oil and gas companies. She told BBC News: "What I`m seeing worldwide is a move very much towards investment in renewable energy. To counterbalance that you see the withdrawal of subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuels. "What`s disappointing is when we see countries such...
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