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Todd Stern warns Republicans against scrapping Paris climate deal
2016-02-16 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: President Obamas special envoy for climate change has warned Republican presidential hopefuls including Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that any attempt to scrap the Paris climate agreement would lead to a diplomatic black eye for the US. Speaking to journalists in Brussels, Todd Stern also said that a recent supreme court decision to block Barack Obamas clean power plan would not affect US climate pledges, or plans to formally sign up to the Paris agreement later this year. Republican candidates...
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Fiji Is First Country to Ratify Paris Climate Deal
2016-02-16 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Local media report Pacific archipelago's parliament unanimously agrees to ratify UN climate deal ahead of high-level signing ceremony in New York in April Fiji has become the first country in the world to formally approve the UN climate deal agreed by 195 nations in Paris in December last year. The island nation's parliament unanimously agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement on Friday, according to local news reports. The motion was proposed by the country's Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum....
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Without Scalia, Obama's climate plan may have a better chance of survival
2016-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: The sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday may mean that President Obama's Clean Power Plan to combat manmade global warming is more likely to remain intact. The plan, which consists of EPA limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new and preexisting power plants, forms the centerpiece of Obama's agenda to limit global warming. Without the Clean Power Plan, it would be nearly impossible for the U.S. to live up to the emissions reduction pledges it made as part of the Paris...
Eye of the storm - climate change in the Pacific
2016-02-16 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Radio New Zealand: Whenever Anote Tong gets a chance to go fishing along the coast of his island, he expects to find yet another line of coconut trees that have been toppled by coastal erosion. The president of the Republic of Kiribati, a nation of 33 tiny islands spread across a large swath of the central Pacific, has watched rising seas take beaches, crop plantations and entire villages, leaving nothing but a flooded church building. For islanders, he says, climate change is real now. "Entire communities have...
Scalia's death boosts legal chances for Obama's climate plan
2016-02-16 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A vote to block the Obama administration's ambitious climate regulation was one of Antonin Scalia's last acts as a Supreme Court justice. His sudden death may have opened a new path to the rule's survival. Scalia died Saturday. Four days earlier, he voted with the other conservative members of the high court to put a hold on the administration's plans to implement the Clean Power Plan while it is litigated. The regulation is designed to lower carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by 2030...
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