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World Leaders Scramble to Finalize Historic Climate Change Deal
2015-12-11 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: World leaders are meeting in Paris to finalize a historic climate deal that calls on industrialized nations to cut emissions in an effort to slow the effects of climate change. Government officials are now scrambling to get a deal done after Friday's original deadline passed. Who are the players? The number of countries participating in talks totals 186. The worlds biggest offenders if carbon emissions China, the United States, the European Union and India -- are working on the draft deal....
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VIDEO: Cocoa threatened by climate change
2015-12-11 13:17:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The cocoa industry in West Africa is under threat from rising global temperatures.
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Tropical groundwater resources resilient to climate change
2015-12-11 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Tropical groundwater may prove to be a climate-resilient source of freshwater in the tropics as intense rainfall favours the replenishment of these resources, according to a new study published in Environmental Research Letters. As climate observations show that global warming leads to fewer but more intense rainfalls, a clearer understanding of how these sources are replenished is crucial for developing strategies for groundwater usage that are better adapted to …
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China 'confident' of a UN climate deal Saturday
2015-12-11 11:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: China, the world's biggest polluter of greenhouse gases, is "quite confident" that a historic universal accord will be struck Saturday to rein in climate change, senior envoy Liu Zhenmin said. "We are quite confident, I think with joint efforts by tomorrow we shall have a Paris agreement," said Liu, the deputy head of the Chinese delegation to the 195-nation UN talks in Paris, which have run past a Friday deadline for a deal.
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World powers lead frenetic final push for climate accord
2015-12-11 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: World powers led a frenetic final push Friday to seal a UN accord aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, as sleep-deprived envoys battled in Paris over trillion-dollar disputes blocking a deal. The 195-nation conference in Paris had been scheduled to wrap up on Friday, delivering a historic agreement that would brake global warming and ease its impacts. But weary negotiators braced themselves for a third straight round of all-night haggling after ministers wrestled with a myriad of...
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