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UN members agree deal Lima climate talks
2014-12-14 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks in Lima, Peru, to overrun by two days. Environmental groups said the deal was an ineffectual compromise, but the EU said it was a step towards achieving a global climate deal next year in Paris. The talks proved difficult because of divisions...
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Difficult Lima talks reach acceptable deal on climate change
2014-12-14 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: The annual United Nations climate talks finally wrapped up in Lima, Peru, in the wee hours of Sunday, achieving an acceptable but not satisfying result and leaving unresolved issues to the climate conference in Paris in December 2015. In the past two weeks, negotiators from over 190 countries and organizations gathered in the city hosting the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to negotiate an new agreement addressing...
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Global climate talks involving 192 nations saved from collapse
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Global climate talks have been rescued from the brink of collapse - but leave a gaping loophole which could allow countries to continue polluting the atmosphere. Negotiations overran by 31 hours as politicians from 192 countries struggled to reach agreement on the ground rules for a new climate treaty. A fortnight-long United Nations summit in Peru had aimed to lay the framework for new international laws to slow the pace of global warming. But the discussions became bad tempered as countries...
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Last-minute deal reached U.N. climate talks
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: After late-night wrangling at U.N. talks in Peru, negotiators early Sunday reached a compromise deal that sets the stage for a global climate pact in Paris next year. The main goal for the two-week session in Lima was relatively modest: Reach agreement on what information should go into the pledges that countries submit for a global climate pact expected to be adopted in Paris. But even that became complicated as several developing nations rebelled against a draft decision they said blurred the...
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Lima climate change talks avert a disaster
2014-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Standard: "It is so decided,' the Peruvian environment minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidalsaid as his gavel hit the table and the torturous 13 days of UN climate change negotiations ended with 196 countries adopting the document 'Lima Call to Climate Action' at around 1 am on Sunday morning. Several hours of closed door negotiations led by the hosts late on Saturday night brought about a compromise, rescuing the talks from the brink of disaster. However eventually, nothing much had been gained and nothing substantial...
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