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Diplomats confront stark divide as climate talks begin
2014-12-02 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Obama administration is hoping for fresh momentum toward a climate treaty during international talks this week in the Peruvian capital, but the immediate challenge may be to simply keep the negotiations from breaking down. Officials from 190 countries gathered in Lima on Monday for 12 days of meetings intended to lay the foundations for a carbon-cutting pact that would be signed a year from now in Paris. But achieving even modest progress will require overcoming stark differences over what...
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Yeb San~o, vocal critic of west, dropped from Lima climate talks
2014-12-02 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Yeb San~o, one of the most vocal critics of rich countries in international global warming negotiations, has not arrived at the latest UN climate conference in Lima and is believed to have been dropped by the Filipino government as its chief negotiator. The move coincides with the Philippines apparently leaving the like minded developing countries (LMDC) group, a powerful bloc of nations regarded by the US and Europe as the main obstacle to a new global agreement. San~o, who has headed the Filipino...
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Emissions targets are biggest challenge for Lima climate talks
2014-12-02 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As this years UN climate change conference opens in Lima, Peru, a series of unexpected political developments in recent months has created a mood of surprising optimism. But dark clouds remain. First came the UN Climate Summit in September, and the huge public mobilisation which accompanied it. With nearly 400,000 people marching on the streets of New York, and hundreds of thousands more in cities around the world, the assembled leaders were warned that climate change was no longer an issue they...
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UN climate talks set sights on historic Paris pact
2014-12-02 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: To fresh warnings and appeals to seize the political momentum, UN talks opened in Lima yesterday tasked with drawing the outlines of a 2015 deal to roll back climate change. Gathering 195 states, the 12-day meeting also has to agree on the pact's heart - a format for nations to make pledges to reduce earth-warming carbon pollution. These national commitments would form the cornerstone of an unprecedented accord to be sealed in Paris in December 2015 and take effect by 2020. "2014 is threatening...
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At climate talks, UN calls fossil fuels 'high risk' investment
2014-12-02 01:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Falling oil prices show the "high risk" of fossil fuel investments compared with renewable energies, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Monday at the start of 190-nation talks on a deal to slow global warming. The Dec. 1-12 meeting in Lima opened with hopes that a U.N. deal to slow climate change is in reach for 2015, helped by goals set by China, the United States and the European Union to cut greenhouse emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s Climate...
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