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3 Reasons for Dramatic Shift at Paris Climate Summit
2015-12-10 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the Paris climate summit reaches its closing days, it couldnt be more different than Copenhagen six years ago. For the first time in a major climate negotiation, the draft outcome was approved on schedule, Saturday evening. Nations which were seen as potential stumbling blocks, like India, have declared that their fundamental needs have been met in the draft. Canada, which a few months ago was in the denial camp, shocked the conference on Monday by endorsing the goal of keeping temperature...
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Climate negotiators face hurdles on key issues as deadline looms
2015-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Less than two days before their deadline to conclude a sweeping new climate accord, negotiators from nearly 200 countries have yet to resolve major issues, such as how and when pledged cuts to carbon emissions would be verified. Lead negotiators said they were confident that a deal could still be reached and perhaps in time to meet the Friday deadline. But some outside observers who have been monitoring the talks said that the compromises necessary to bring it across the finish line could weaken...
Paris climate deal must ensure respect for human rights
2015-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: From Pacific islanders losing their homelands to encroaching seas, to indigenous people forced from their forests in the name of conservation, human rights are already being violated by both climate change impacts and solutions, U.N. rights experts said. At climate talks in Paris, tasked with hammering out a new deal to tackle global warming by the end of this week, the experts called for strong language on respecting human rights and the rights of indigenous people to be included in the agreement....
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Delegates at climate talks focus on saving the world's forests
2015-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The climate deal being negotiated here is meant to begin a transformation of the worlds energy systems, but it has another goal that has received far less attention: a sweeping effort to save the worlds forests. Dozens of countries put forests at the center of the plans they submitted ahead of the conference, near Paris. As the talks began, more than 60 heads of state emphasized their commitment to forest conservation. If a deal is reached this week and the plans go into effect in 2020, these...
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Australia has 'serious concerns' about climate draft
2015-12-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia has "serious concerns" about a draft version of a climate change deal released in Paris, and has told the conference it is "deeply disappointed" that some areas have been weakened. The comments came as a "high ambition coalition" including the US, Europe and a little over 63 African, South American and island nations, but thus far not Australia - emerged in a bid to deliver an ambitious global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The the French hosts had earlier released a 29-page...
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