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Climate talks told to ease rifts as heat busts record
2014-10-20 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fresh UN climate talks opened in Bonn on Monday with a plea for nations to overcome rifts as scientists reported record global temperatures for the month of September. In an appeal to negotiators at the six-day meeting, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said renewed commitments made at a world summit on September 23 to curb climate change should prompt negotiators to "build bridges." Their discussions must lay the foundations for the annual ministerial-level talks to be held in Lima in December,...
International tensions as talks to protect Antarctica begin
2014-10-20 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Twenty-five member nations of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) are set to discuss the creation of two large marine protected areas to protect the Antarctic environment from fishing and other commercial activities, but the move is being opposed by Russia and China. The CCAMLR will decide on proposals to create marine protected areas (MPAs) in East Antarctica and the Ross Sea, initiatives to reduce illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean and setting...
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US eyes buffet option in global climate talks
2014-10-17 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obamas negotiating position for a global deal to fight climate change is beginning to look like a big buffet. In speeches this week, Obamas lead climate negotiator, Todd Stern, has given the clearest indication to date that America is pushing for an agreement with some elements of a full-scale, legally binding international treaty. But other key components of a global agreement would be more in line with a handshake deal among leaders. The combo deal would allow America to join other...
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Yara, CF Industries Abandon Merger Talks
2014-10-17 11:08:16| Chemicals - Topix.net
Norway's Yara International and Deerfield, Illinois-based CF Industries have abandoned merger talks that would have created a massive player in the fertilizer industry. A merger would have created a combined company with a market capitalization of more than $26 billion and annual sales of about $20 billion.
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Judge: secret utility, regulators talks to stop
2014-10-17 03:30:20| Energy - Topix.net
A judge with the state's public utilities commission has banned all back-channel contact between commission members and the state's largest utility for at least a year. The ruling Thursday by Administrative law Judge Hallie Yacknin also bans Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
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