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France puts 24 climate activists under house arrest ahead of UN talks
2015-11-27 20:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: French authorities have placed 24 activists under house arrest ahead of major UN climate warming talks starting near Paris next week, using the state of emergency powers declared after the Paris attacks. The interior ministry said Friday the measures had been taken to prevent the activists from demonstrating ahead of the COP21 conference, but their lawyers and Amnesty International accused the government of abusing the state of emergency. Three of those concerned, who are in their late 20s,...
Britain sends mixed messages on climate ahead of Paris talks
2015-11-27 16:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain's cuts to renewable energy subsidies and abandonment of its carbon capture and storage scheme are likely to diminish the country's influence at the global climate talks starting in Paris this weekend, investors and green groups said. Britain's commitment to foreign aid, including around 5.8 billion in climate finance from 2016-2021, has enabled the country to be an influential deal broker at climate talks in the past, gaining the ears of developed and developing countries. But a swathe...
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Paris talks could improve climate pledges
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Until recently, global climate negotiations resembled wards full of newborn babies. Everybody seemed awfully upset about something, but with little idea what to do about it. Now the kids are growing. And they've been handing in their homework. What happens to that homework as countries' climate policies mature could mean the difference between a humanity that's afflicted by climate change, or one that's devastated by it. The way that countries will move together to act on climate in the coming...
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Can Paris climate talks overcome the India challenge?
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: If any single country embodies the challenge of reaching an agreement at the huge United Nations climate conference that begins in Paris on Monday, it is India. India is already the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and it plans a massive increase, proposing to treble CO2 emissions within the next 15 years. What is more, unlike virtually every other country attending the Paris conference - including the two biggest polluters, the US and China - India has not set a future cap...
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Pope Francis: Catastrophic Climate if Paris Talks Fail
2015-11-27 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pope Francis warned on Wednesday that the world is facing a "grave environmental crisis" and spoke of the intersection between social justice and the protection of nature. The pontiff`s comments, made in the Kenyan capital at the start of his first visit to the continent, come just days ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris, where global delegates will hammer out an agreement to curb climate change. "The grave environmental crisis facing our world demands an ever greater sensitivity to the...
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