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Africa Looks for Help to Implement Climate Agreement
2015-12-16 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Africa cannot be left to foot the bill for climate change, so say leaders and specialists from the continent who attended the recent climate conference in Paris. Nearly 200 nations adopted a historic deal December 12 that aims to slow the pace of global warming and provide billions of dollars for climate change remediation to poorer countries. While it's hard to predict the impact the deal will have on Africa, it's significant that there is recognition of the continent's vulnerability, says Edith...
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What the Paris Climate Agreement Means for Vulnerable Nations
2015-12-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Yorker: Just before negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Summit, in Paris, released the final text of their agreement, on December 12th, the members of the Alliance of Small Island States started to sing. They continued for five minutes, a group of more than eighty delegates from forty-four low-lying coastal and island countries, through weeping and cheering and bursts of applause, until the chorus of Bob Marleys Three Little Birds had been repeated many times over. The words of that refrain--Every...
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Fuzzy climate change accord
2015-12-16 07:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tampa Tribune: President Barack Obama claims the international community met the moment by agreeing to a climate change accord last weekend in Paris. He didnt mention that the more than 190 countries that signed the agreement are under no legal obligation to keep their promise to reduce carbon emissions. Indeed, with his administration nearing an end, Obama cannot guarantee the United States will keep its promise to reduce carbon emissions by more than a quarter by 2025. A legally binding treaty among the...
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Cheap gas spurs SUV sales and puts U.S. climate goals at risk
2015-12-16 07:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Surging demand for trucks and SUVs fueled by cheap gasoline is holding back improvements in U.S. fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions, a government report due out on Wednesday is expected to show. The disconnect between consumer demand for larger, less efficient vehicles and the Obama administrations climate goals sets up a clash between the auto industry and federal regulators. Mark Rosekind, who heads the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said in a Reuters interview last...
India's interests met in Paris climate talks: Javadekar
2015-12-16 03:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: Asserting that it has "secured" India's interest in the Paris agreement on climate change, government today said the pact meets its "broad expectations" and recognises the country's development imperatives. "We feel vindicated that all our major requirements have been accepted and have become a part of the agreement," Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told Parliament. He made the statement in both the Houses amid the din due to noisy protests by members of Congress and some other parties over...
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