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Heres why market-based initiatives alone wont save the worlds forests and climate
2015-12-11 07:05:50| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new study looked at Papua New Guinea's Wanang Conservation Area, where villagers work with conservationists in exchange for financial rewards -- the type of market-based project that is the focus of the UNs REDD+ program. When it comes to conservationists working with forest communities, the study found, direct payments may be helpful as part of a broader reciprocal relationship, but direct payments alone will likely fail. Climate negotiators at COP21 discussing REDD+ and other forest initiatives...
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New Report Says Cities May Fight Climate Change Better Than Countries
2015-12-11 04:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Good: As delegates from more than 190 nations start to put a bow on a broad climate deal at the climate talks in Paris, a new report has emerged outlining how cities around the world are playing their own vital role in the climate fight. The research, published by C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, specifically cites 2,300 actions that, if implemented, would cut 450 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. Thats the equivalent of the annual emissions of the United Kingdom--and thats before...
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Trees either hunker down or press on in drying and warming western US climate
2015-12-11 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the face of adverse conditions, people might feel tempted by two radically different options -- hunker down and wait for conditions to improve, or press on and hope for the best. It would seem that trees employ similar options when the climate turns dry and hot. Two University of Washington researchers have uncovered details of the radically divergent strategies that two common tree species employ to cope with drought in southwestern Colorado. As they report in a new paper in the journal Global...
Global Climate Deal Close to Finishing Line
2015-12-11 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Uncertainty lingered in the latest draft on key issues, including issues of financing for poorer countries, and on how an agreement would differently affect richer and poorer nations. But consensus appeared to growing on what once had been stubborn divides. "We are extremely close to the finishing line,' said the president of the negotiations, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, before the 27-page draft was handed to delegates from nearly 200 nations. "It's time to come to an agreement.' ...
Highlights of a proposed UN climate pact
2015-12-11 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Envoys from 195 nations appear to be zeroing in on a historic climate-saving pact in Paris. The host of the talks, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, has declared that the world is "extremely close" to a global greenhouse gas-cutting deal that he hopes to seal Friday. As ministers headed into a second night of non-stop talks, Fabius presented them with a new draft that offered the first real glimpse of what a final accord may look like. These are the key points of the draft Paris Agreement,...
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