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UN climate talks on 'brink of collapse'
2013-11-23 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.N. climate talks were deadlocked Saturday as the U.S. and China clashed over what role the Chinese and other fast-growing economies should play in a new pact to fight global warming. Disputes over climate aid for poor countries also overshadowed the Warsaw conference as it stretched a full day beyond its scheduled end time. The two-week talks were supposed to lay the foundation for a 2015 climate deal in Paris that countries have agreed should apply to them all. But after all-night talks,...
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Rich vs poor deadlock broken at UN climate talks
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive on Saturday when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming. A two-week negotiation in Warsaw had been due to end on Friday, but was blocked over a timetable for the first U.N. climate accord that would set greenhouse gas emissions requirements for all nations. The pact is due to be agreed in 2015 and come into force after 2020. Negotiators finally agreed...
UN climate talks in deadlock over weak finance pledges
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: UN negotiations to develop a global climate treaty in 2015 remain in stasis, with deep divisions between envoys over the levels of responsibility rich and poor countries need to take for global warming. The Warsaw summit was set to conclude on Friday, but ran on throughout the night, with reports of increasingly angry and frustrated discussions behind closed doors. Our expectations have been shattered, we are saddened, said Bangladeshs lead negotiator Quamrul Chowdhury. Speaking for the...
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Warsaw climate talks remain contentious, may end in all-nighter
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Bedraggled diplomats returned this morning to the soccer stadium where U.N. climate change negotiations are being held. They are fully expecting to battle into the night over the best path toward a new 2015 global warming agreement. With a quiet and somewhat sour mood descending over the discussions after a walkout by environmental activists yesterday decrying lack of progress, several issues remain unresolved. Among them: funding levels for vulnerable countries between now and 2020 and a way...
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Deadlock in fractious climate talks
2013-11-23 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: UN climate talks in Poland have ended with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming. After 30 hours of deadlock, they approved a pathway to a new global climate treaty in Paris in 2015. The agreement was achieved after a series of last minute compromises often involving single words in draft texts. Negotiators also made progress on the contentious issue of loss and damage that developing countries are expected to suffer in a warming world. Green groups were angry...
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