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Paris talks overlooking immediate threats, say climate change activists video
2015-12-12 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change activists express their disappointment on Saturday at the final draft of the COP21 climate deal saying that it was too little, too late. Guillaume Durin, an activist from French environmental collective Alternatiba,says people are already affected by climate change and that the agreement is a way of delaying meaningful action
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Planned UN climate deal blow to fossil fuels: green groups
2015-12-12 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A global accord to tame global warming pending approval at UN talks in Paris on Saturday would be a huge blow to the fossil-fuel industry, Greenpeace and other prominent environment groups said. "The wheel of climate action turns slowly, but in Paris it has turned. This deal puts the fossil fuel industry on the wrong side of history," Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo said. Greenpeace, major green groups and climate change researchers gave a mixed report card on the many...
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'Historic' climate deal in sight as final text released
2015-12-12 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Negotiators on Saturday released the final draft of a proposed deal that would unite the U.S. and the rest of the world in taking on the threat of catastrophic climate change, amid optimism that an agreement is finally within reach. The deal still needs approval from representatives of the U.S. and 195 other governments, which could continue wrangling over the fine print throughout the day or even into the night. But its success would be a major win for President Barack Obama, who has made climate...
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Delegates react to the Paris climate change text video
2015-12-12 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Key delegates give their thoughts on the final text of the COP21 draft climate deal after it was revealed by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday morning. Some delegates had yet to see the text, which now needs to be approved by nearly 200 participating countries
Most Climate Change Damage Will Happen Before the Two-Degrees Warming Threshold
2015-12-12 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Most discourse regarding climate change is based around a simple premise: The more the Earth warms, the greater the damage done to the planet. But in new paper published in Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers found that presupposition is fundamentally flawed. The reality, they write, is more ominous. Almost all the damage from climate change to vulnerable categories like coral reefs, freshwater availability and plantlife could happen before two degrees Celsius warming, the internationally...
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