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Australia: 'Walking in the other direction': Malcolm Turnbull's broad retreat on climate
2016-04-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Herald: When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull rose to address the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris late last year, he told the world Australia would meet the challenges of global warming "with confidence and optimism". Australia's carbon emissions target - slicing 2000 levels by about 19 per cent by 2030 - would halve pollution on a per capita basis, "one of the biggest reductions" of any G20 nation, Turnbull said. The government would also double "clean energy innovation" investment...
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Landmark Paris climate accord signed
2016-04-23 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IUSB: Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko signed the treaty on behalf of Ukraine. The deal will enter into force after 55 countries that account for at least 55% of global emissions have deposited their instruments of ratification. North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong made a rare United Nations appearance to sign and Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe brought applause when he declared, "Life itself is at stake in this combat". He added that small island...
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Australia has signed the Paris climate change agreement
2016-04-23 09:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: As stated, the Paris Climate Agreement will enter into force once 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions have signed it. The leaders must now go back to their home countries' governments to ratify and approve the agreement, which could take months or years. "These are some of the highest targets anywhere in the world and certainly on a per capita basis we're right at the top", he told the ABC from NY on Saturday. "The Paris Agreement is a strong affirmation that diplomacy...
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Speakers use Earth Day for climate change focus
2016-04-23 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Argus: While 175 countries signed an agreement on climate change on Friday, the president of the Sierra Club called the agreement a cop-out. The fawning and applause over a signing of an agreement, its not ... Aaron Mair, president of the Sierra Club, said Friday at an appearance at the Vermont Law School in honor of Earth Day, Its just not enough and the need to build a movement and the need to shock America into action is dire, he said. Mair said his biggest objection to the agreement, sometimes...
175 nations sign historic Paris climate deal on Earth Day
2016-04-23 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KTHV: World leaders from 175 countries signed the historic Paris climate accord Friday, using Earth Day as a backdrop for the ceremonial inking of a long-fought deal that aims to slow the rise of harmful greenhouse gases. "We are in a race against time." U.N. secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the gathering at the United Nations headquarters in New York. "The era of consumption without consequences is over." "The poor and most vulnerable must not suffer further from a problem they did not create," Ban...
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