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New draft text of Paris climate change deal cuts through many sticking points
2015-12-11 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Negotiators in Paris are within reach of a new global agreement to curb greenhouse emissions to 2030 and beyond, with the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, saying the meeting was extremely close to the finishing line as he presented a draft text that cut through many sticking points. After reading the new draft and chairing a meeting of the so-called umbrella group of developed nations, Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop said she thought the text was about 80% there. Theres...
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Jerry Brown in Paris: Calif governor goes deep on climate change and other global threats
2015-12-11 00:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: California Gov. Jerry Brown had a song stuck in his head, and he wanted to hear it. Standing outside a conference center shortly after giving a speech on climate change, he asked for someone to play it on their phone. And when the refrain arrived, he sang along to the Barry McGuire tune from 1965 -- "We`re on the eve of destruction." "We have a theme song!" said Nancy McFadden, the governor`s top aide. It was a fitting anthem for Brown`s trip to the U.N. summit on climate change, a trip...
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Indigenous rights highlight day 11 of the Paris climate change conference
2015-12-11 00:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Canadas call to recognize human and indigenous rights at the Paris climate talks was largely met Thursday with a new draft agreement that also attempts to strike a balance between a 1.5- and 2-degree Celsius warming target. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna had stressed late Wednesday how critically important it was to include strong language that recognizes human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples. The latest draft, coinciding with human rights day at the summit, kept and...
A new space race: satellites could test the world's climate vows
2015-12-11 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists from the United States, Japan, and China are racing to perfect satellite technology that could one day measure greenhouse gas emissions from space, potentially transforming the winner into the world's first climate cop. Monitoring a single country's net emissions from above could not only become an important tool to establish whether it had met its promises to slow global warming, a point of contention at climate talks in Paris, but also help emitters to pinpoint the sources of greenhouse...
Look beyond hotspots to help people weather climate shocks: study
2015-12-10 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Targeting money only at areas hit by drought and other climate extremes in an effort to build resilience among the worlds poorest may be ineffective, researchers said. In Mali, for example, over much of the last decade, farmers and herders have struggled with worsening drought that has killed crops and animals and often made rural people poorer and hungrier. But the fallout from those losses has impacts far beyond drought-hit regions, new research by the London-based Overseas Development Institute...
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