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G20 leaders disappoint climate campaigners with weak statement
2015-11-16 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Campaigners looking to this weekend`s G20 leaders meeting in Antalya, Turkey, for progress on the climate agenda have been left disappointed. In a statement on Monday, the group of major economies reiterated their commitment to a 2C limit on global warming and to phase out "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies. There was little sign of convergence on contentious issues ahead of December`s UN climate summit in Paris: how to ramp up ambition, share responsibility between rich and poor, and get...
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G20 must end fossil fuel subsidies say C20
2015-11-16 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: G20 leaders meeting in Turkey this week must tell the world how they plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 or risk being seen as dragging its feet, a high-level sustainability forum declared today. The G20 promised to phase out fossil fuel subsidies completely in 2009. But G20 governments still pump US$452bn annually into exploration for and production of fossil fuels, according to a report from the Overseas Development Institute released last week. The C20 Sustainability Working Group...
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A Call from people of Zonguldak in Turkey to G20 Leaders: We want future without coal
2015-11-16 10:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The people of Zonguldak, a historic coal city in Turkey, have come together during the first day of the G20 Summit underway today in Antalya to make a clear demand for A Future Without Coal in a concerted effort to focus the worlds attention on the enormous threats from the existing and the many proposed coal power plants in the region. Liveable Zonguldak Platform (Yasanabilir Zonguldak Platformu), want attention on the massive problems from air pollution and its impacts on human health in Zonguldak....
Chinese president says G20 obliged to promote world economic growth
2015-11-15 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday proposed strengthened coordination on macroeconomic policy, innovation-driven development and an open world economy as prescriptions for boosting global growth. In a speech delivered at the first session of a Group of 20 (G20) summit, Xi said the G20 should work to maintain a stable economic growth in the short term, while seeking to inject new impetus into the world economy in the long run. This year's G20 summit, the 10th of its kind since 2008, comes...
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G20: Barack Obama hails India's economic growth and focus on renewable energy
2015-11-15 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: US President Barack Obama today hailed India's economic growth under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its focus on renewable energy. Making an intervention during a G20 Leaders Summit session, Obama said the Modi government's ambitious plans for scaling up the use of renewable energy combines a concern for environment and creates opportunity for furthering global growth through fresh investment in renewable energy. Obama also said it has the potential to create employment,...
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