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Hottest Year Ever Sparks UN Climate Talks
2014-12-02 00:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: This may be the hottest year on record, according to recent research, a notion that has sparked more urgency at UN climate talks. At the opening of an annual summit on global warming in Lima, Peru, 195 officials with the United Nations (UN) are asking for more drastic action to combat the damaging effects of climate change. Specifically, they want to finalize a climate pact in Paris by the end of 2015, according to BBC News, to cap greenhouse gases in all nations. Though the United States and...
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At U.N. climate talks in Peru, it's optimism vs reality
2014-12-01 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Starting Monday in Lima, Peru, representatives of about 190 countries began their latest in more than two decades of meetings to discuss how to slow and reverse long-term, manmade global warming. The discussions, technically known as the 20th conference of the parties to the 1992 U.N. Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), are aimed at producing a blueprint that can be molded into a new global climate agreement by next year, and would enter into force in 2020. One can be forgiven for viewing...
Global Climate Talks Open with Push for Human Rights
2014-12-01 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: For all the flack the U.N. climate talks have taken over the past 20 years, one major achievement will be on display as the next round of negotiations open in Peru today. Climate change has been inextricably linked to social justice. The key questions that face the delegates as they meet in Lima are no longer simply about carbon emissions targets and timetables, but also about people and human rights. One mark of that shift is the $9.6 billion committed so far by rich nations to the U.N.'s...
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UN Climate talks kicked off in Lima
2014-12-01 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Amid hope to seal the climate deal in Paris next year, crucial negotiation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was kicked off in Peruvian capital on Monday with key UN body appealing the world to step up their actions to deal with disastrous consequences of global warming. How much burden each of the nations would share to save the world may be known only later in the run up to the Paris meeting, the current meetings - called COP20 (20th edition of the Conference...
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Deals of the Day: Telecom Talks, Deutsche Annington Nabs Gagfah
2014-12-01 17:03:28| Telecom - Topix.net
Deals of the Day is your one-stop-shop for the morning's biggest news from the finance beat, including M&A, IPOs, banks, hedge funds and private equity. Here's what's happening today: Altice, Oi in talks.
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