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With climate deal, activists seeks land rights for native people
2016-04-22 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With world leaders converging in New York to sign a landmark climate deal, activists along with actor Alec Baldwin called on Thursday for a halt to deforestation, a contributor to global warming, by giving indigenous people rights to their land. Keeping indigenous tribes from being pushed off their land would help protect forests that absorb planet-warming greenhouse gasses, they told reporters in New York City. The climate change agreement, which commits world nations to lower greenhouse emissions,...
Leaders 171 countries sign landmark Paris Agreement climate change
2016-04-22 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courant: Leaders from 171 countries sign landmark Paris Agreement on climate change - Hartford Courant Nation & World Nation & World Leaders from 171 countries sign landmark Paris Agreement on climate change Paris Agreement Mark Lennihan / AP U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds his granddaughter Isabel Dobbs-Higginson as he signs the Paris Agreement on climate change, on April...
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171 states signing landmark Paris deal on climate change
2016-04-22 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The historic agreement on climate change marked a major milestone on Friday with a record 175 countries signing on to it on opening day. But world leaders made clear more action is needed, and quickly, to fight a relentless rise in global temperatures. With the planet heating up to record levels, sea levels rising and glaciers melting, the pressure to have the Paris Agreement enter into force and to have every country turn its words into deeds was palpable at the U.N. signing ceremony. "The...
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Vulnerable states stress 1.5C goal at UN climate ceremony
2016-04-22 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate Vulnerable Forum calls on all countries to increase their carbon-cutting contributions by 2020, as leaders meet in New York Countries vulnerable to the impacts of climate change called for "concrete steps" to limit warming to 1.5C, as leaders gathered in New York on Friday. That was the aspirational target in the Paris Agreement, which representatives from more than 165 countries are set to sign at a UN ceremony. The Climate Vulnerable Forum, an informal grouping of 43 developing...
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Paris climate deal set to be signed by record number of states
2016-04-22 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Paris deal to slow climate change is set to be signed by more than 165 countries at the United Nations on Friday, the most states to endorse an international agreement on day one a record backers hope will inspire swift implementation. Many states still need a parliamentary vote to formally approve the agreement. It will only enter into force when ratified by at least 55 nations representing 55% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon wants to use the event...
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