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New York summit: what it means for climate treaty prospects

2014-09-26 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RTCC: The worlds superpowers have finally woken from their climate coma. That was the message from the UKs secretary of state for energy and climate change Ed Davey, speaking on the sidelines of the UNs climate summit in New York. If you talk to the Americans, you hear a message you have never heard before. Real leadership and action, he told RTCC. If you talk to the Chinese the issue of air pollution in some of their big cities has awoken the people and government to the environmental challenge....

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Global Treaty on Warming Looks Unlikely

2014-09-21 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Behind all the fanfare around this week's UN Climate Summit, which will bring 120 heads of state to New York on Tuesday, looms one big question: Will the nations of the world agree on a path to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change, such as dramatic sea-level rise and extreme droughts and storms? The answer will not come during the official summit. This week's event is not a negotiating session for the next international agreement; that will happen in December 2015, when countries...

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Obama pursuing climate accord in lieu of treaty

2014-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress. In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the worlds largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But under the Constitution,...

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Free Riders Undermine Climate Treaty Hopes

2014-08-24 10:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Truthdig: An effective treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will probably remain elusive, according to a new research study, because the steps likely to win political agreement would be ineffective, while those that could produce results would be politically unfeasible. In fact, the Norwegian researchers conclude, the world is actually further away from an effective climate agreement today than it was 15 years ago, when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted. The research is the work of a team from the...

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