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Paris climate deal to be signed by over 130 countries at UN ceremony
2016-04-08 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A record number of more than 130 countries will sign the landmark agreement to tackle climate change at a ceremony at UN headquarters on 22 April, the United Nations said on Thursday. Secretary general Ban Ki-moon is hosting the signing ceremony on the first day that the agreement reached in Paris in December opens for signature. The UN chief, French President Francois Hollande, and environment minister Segolene Royal, who is in charge of global climate negotiations, have invited leaders from all...
Countries inking Paris climate treaty to break 34-year UN record
2016-04-08 11:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A record haul of nations will put pen to paper on the first day a new global warming accord opens for signature, the UN predicts. The 130 expected at its New York headquarters will beat the 119 that signed the Law of the Sea in 1982 in Jamaica, it said in a Thursday statement. The UN did not release a guest list. But major powers, including China, the European Union, India and the United States, have confirmed their presence at the event, which is aimed to spotlight ambitious commitments to...
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Climate models overestimate increase in wet and dry extremes
2016-04-08 10:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The 20th century was neither much drier nor wetter for half the globe than many of its predecessors, European scientists say. On the contrary, they say several centuries in the last 1,200 years experienced much more variable rain and drought than the 1900s. Their findings, which are published with several caveats and which have not so far been replicated, differ markedly from the conclusions published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In what they say is the first...
World Bank to ramp up climate change investments
2016-04-08 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The World Bank has made a fundamental shift in its role of alleviating global poverty, by refocusing its financing efforts towards tackling climate change, the group said on Thursday. The worlds biggest provider of public finance to developing countries said it would spend 28% of its investments directly on climate change projects, and that all of its future spending would take account of global warming. At last years landmark conference on climate change in Paris, the World Bank and its...
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Record number of countries expected to sign historic Paris climate accord
2016-04-08 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: A record number of countries are expected to sign a historic climate agreement at a signing ceremony on April 22, the deputy UN spokesman said here Thursday. More than 130 countries have confirmed that they will sign the Paris Agreement on that day, the first day that the accord adopted in December in Paris is open for signature, Farhan Haq said at a daily news briefing here. "This is expected to surpass the previous record of 119 signatures for an opening day signing for an international agreement,...
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