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U.N. Climate Meet: Its About Survival
2013-11-13 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: For the small island developing states of the Caribbean, there is nothing more important than the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place here at the national stadium of Poland from Nov. 11-22. "We're being impacted by climate change right now. We have to fight sea level rise, we are looking at increases in the frequency and severity of storm events, so it's about survival," Hugh Sealy, vice chair of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board, told IPS."What we do in...
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China on track to meet climate change targets
2013-04-29 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: China continues to increase its renewable energy use as the Asian nation works towards lowering growth in carbon emissions, a new report says. The federal government's climate commission released a report today showing the world's two largest economies, China and the United States, are on the path to meet their international commitments on climate change. Chief commissioner Tim Flannery says China is set to become a global leader on climate change. "China has halved its growth in electricity demand,...
Federal politicians use non-partisan climate group to meet in safe space behind closed doors
2013-04-27 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: An all-party committee of federal politicians interested in learning about climate change science is continuing to meet behind the scenes on Parliament Hill, with discreet participation from a few backbench Conservative MPs. The committee has met on a monthly basis for about two years. But its meetings are secret and its members are reluctant to say who attended and what they discussed. You just dont want people to be feeling that its an area of political risk to participate in the climate...
Developing countries meet on climate change
2013-03-06 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
China Daily: A group of like-minded developing countries on climate change held an informal meeting last week in Geneva to assess the outcome of the last climate change talks in Doha and urged developed countries to boost action. Representatives of China, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Mali, Malaysia, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Venezuela attended the meeting. The group is a platform for like-minded developing countries to exchange views and coordinate positions on the...
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India: At Chennai meet, BASIC pushes climate fund
2013-02-18 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Environment ministers of the four BASIC countries Brazil, South Africa, India and China who met in Chennai for the 14th meeting of the grouping on climate change on Saturday emphasized the need for a clear road map to raise funds from developed nations for a Green Climate Fund (GCF). After the meeting, Indian representative and Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan told reporters, "It is disappointing to see the lack of commitment to any roadmap to ratchet up the provision of such finance...