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Haiyan revives compensation row at UN climate talks
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan has become a rallying cry at UN climate talks, where the Philippines and other developing nations are demanding aid guarantees for future damage from global warming. The demand has created another deep fault line in the divided negotiations, for rich nations see it as a potential trap, locking them into a never-ending liability for compensation. Many of the world's poorest nations are also the most vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, from severe...
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'Loss and damage' re-opens old wounds at climate talks
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: UN climate negotiations are bogged down in a dispute over who will take legal responsibility for the loss and damage caused by climate change. Rich countries say they will strongly resist this move. Secretary general Ban Ki-moon opened the ministerial segment of the talks in Warsaw, Poland with a warning that the world was facing the wrath of a warming planet. Mr Ban called on delegates to respond with wisdom, urgency and resolve. He told delegates that climate change threatens current...
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Yahoo CEO Mayer talks mobile strategy, design approach
2013-11-20 13:21:28| InfoWorld: Top News
Yahoo is taking a "mobile first" approach to its product strategy, to the point where mobility could reinvent the company, according to CEO Marissa Mayer.
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Poor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on
2013-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Representatives of most of the world's poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015. The orchestrated move by the G77 and China bloc of 132 countries came during talks about "loss and damage" how countries should respond to climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to, such...
Polish minister fired but still head UN climate talks
2013-11-20 09:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Polish Environment Minister Marcin Korolec lost his job on Wednesday in a government reshuffle, which may undermine his leadership while Warsaw hosts U.N. climate talks involving almost 200 countries. Korolec assumed the presidency of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change on November 11, the first day of the two-week conference that aims to make progress on a global climate deal to be agreed by 2015. Despite losing his ministerial post, he continues as Poland's representative at the...
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