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A 2015 treaty? Don't bother, Congress says
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As activists gathering this week for U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, fuel hopes for a 2015 legally binding treaty, U.S. lawmakers already are throwing cold water on the prospects. In interviews this week with members of Congress on the right and left, even the most ardent supporters of international efforts to curb global greenhouse gas emissions said chances of Senate approval for a treaty have not improved much since the Kyoto Protocol crashed and burned in Washington, D.C., in 1997. ...
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As world dithers on climate treaty, funding for climate projects dwindles
2013-11-14 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Failure thus far to agree on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol means the worlds largest carbon-offset program is poised to shrink. Since it began operating in 2004, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has supported 7,432 projects to rein in greenhouse gas emissions in poor and developing countries. Those projects have included wind, solar, and bioenergy installations, forest plantations, and energy-efficiency efforts. (Controversially, they have also included coal- and other fossil fuel-based...
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Typhoon in Philippines Casts Long Shadow Over UN Talks on Climate Treaty
2013-11-12 03:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The typhoon that struck the Philippines produced an outpouring of emotion on Monday at United Nations talks on a global climate treaty in Warsaw, where delegates were quick to suggest that a warming planet had turned the storm into a lethal monster. Olai Ngedikes, the lead negotiator for an alliance of small island nations, said in a statement that the typhoon, named Haiyan, which by some estimates killed 10,000 people in one city alone, serves as a stark reminder of the cost of inaction on climate...
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Treaty Energy To Expand Oil & Gas Development In Tuscola, Texas
2013-11-11 16:45:00| OGI
Treaty Energy Corp. has acquired lease rights to drill 13 new wells on the 260-acre Kubacak lease.
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Treaty to cut mercury pollution signed by 92 countries
2013-10-23 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: A ground-breaking, legally-binding global treaty on reducing mercury pollution has been signed by 92 countries. The treaty spells "the beginning of the end of mercury as a threat to human health and the environment', UN Environment Programme (UNEP) executive director Achim Steiner, told a diplomatic meeting in Japan earlier this month (10-11 October) where the treaty was signed. But much work remains to provide the funding and technical and scientific advice needed to implement the treaty,...
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