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COP21: NGOs react to prospective UN Paris climate deal
2015-12-12 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Reaction to a prospective Paris climate pact is pouring in from green groups and aid agencies. They welcome its aim to limit temperature rise to 1.5C if possible, a tightening of the previous 2C threshold for dangerous global warming. It sends a clear message that fossil fuels are on the way out, they say -- although more action is needed to make the goal a reality. For the world`s poor, the agreement represents "a frayed lifeline", says Oxfam. It doesn`t meet all their demands but provides...
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'Historic turning point': Final draft of climate deal unveiled
2015-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: A draft climate pact has been hammered out after two weeks of intensive talks at the United Nations summit on climate change here, and it could prove to be an "historic turning point," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Saturday. The "final draft" of a pact would be legally binding, Fabius added in Paris at a news conference that included U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. This new draft of the accord would require all countries to take steps to reduce emissions and help each other...
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Why Tom Steyers climate group hearts the Onion
2015-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Pretty good deal in the screen shot above: NextGen Climate, Tom Steyers San Francisco group dedicated to evangelizing the hazards of climate change, secures placement in the politics coverage of the Onion, atop a satire about Charles and David Koch, the libertarian industrialists famously opposed to congressional regulation of greenhouse gases. Koch Brothers Get Each Other Same Election For Christmas, reads the satirical headline. The funniest part: David Koch explained that he had hoped the...
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Climate talks move into overtime to deal with a few tough issues
2015-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Climate change talks have gone into the final stretch, and despite early optimism about completing a global accord early, it now seems the negotiations will need a pair of elastic pants. For the second night in a row, diplomats jousted over phrases well past midnight, this time over a shortened but still-contentious 27-page draft text. By morning, all was quiet in the normally bustling halls as countries met in small groups so they could consult with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius later...
Climate deal unveiled in Paris, a 'historic turning point'
2015-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: French foreign minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a "historic" measure for transforming the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming. At the tail end of the hottest year on record and after four years of fraught UN talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperilled island states against rising economic powerhouses, Fabius urged officials from nearly 200 nations to support what he hopes...
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