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Russia halts Turkey gas project talks
2015-12-03 15:01:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Russia halts talks with Turkey on a major gas pipeline in the Black Sea - a further escalation after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.
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'Loss and damage' creeps in from the cold at UN climate talks
2015-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Hurricane Katrina brought storm surges crashing into New Orleans in August 2005, Beverly Wright lost all her family photographs, going back to her great grandparents, in the flood. "You cannot replace all of the memorabilia, or pictures you cherish and pass on from person to person," said the executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice. "There are things that cannot be replaced monetarily." She gave this as an example of "loss and damage" from climate change,...
"Concrete Proposals Needed" from US in EU Market Access Talks
2015-12-03 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - European agricultural organisation Copa-Cogeca said in a high-level meeting with US Secretary of State for Agriculture Tom Vilsack that there are many opportunities to be had in transatlantic trade talks, but more progress is needed on red tape and non-tariff barriers to trade.
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Jokowi leaves COP21 talks as questions remain over Indonesia haze reforms
2015-12-02 20:05:08| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings said it would invest $100 million over 10 years to expand protection and restoration of carbon-rich peat lands in central Sumatra. President Joko Jokowi Widodo returned to Jakarta on Wednesday from crucial climate talks in Paris with Indonesias commitment to combatting forest fires and reducing greenhouse gas emissions still in the balance. We will later announce real actions to which we will commit. This will include peat restoration, a review...
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India's Need for Cheap Coal a Challenge for Climate Talks
2015-12-02 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: As world leaders gathered in Paris for the opening of the international climate conference on Nov. 30, excavators in a densely forested corner of eastern India were at work extracting coal at what in coming years is projected to become the biggest mine in Asia. The Magadh project, in the Indian state of Jharkhand, is part of a massive push by the world's third-largest carbon emitter to close the gap between the amount of coal it produces domestically and the amount it's consuming, particularly...
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