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Rich countries must pay their debt on climate change
2015-12-06 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: India is here to ensure that rich countries pay back their debt for the overdraft they have drawn on the carbon space, Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said on Sunday. Javadekar said the developing could not let the ongoing UN conference, attended by over 195 countries, fail to reach its objectives. The minister, who came to Paris on Saturday for a second time after having attended the opening plenary when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was here...
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Battling climate change - with worms and soil conservation
2015-12-06 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Nicolas Denieul plants his spade in the ground and turns over a clod of soil to reveal a mass of earthworms seething around plant roots fat ones and thin ones, delicate translucent violet and dark brown. "That is magnificent. Ten years ago, I never thought I'd see anything like that!" said Denieul, a cheerful French farmer, his hands full of earth in the biting wind. For 10 years ago, there were no worms roaming about his land, near the western city of Le Mans, where he grows wheat, corn and...
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Five Reasons to Smile About Paris Climate Talks
2015-12-06 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Peering closely at the climate talks underway in Paris could be a formula for depression. Entrenched divisions persist between richer and poorer countries on key negotiating issues. Pledges to tackle climate pollution that were submitted by nations before the talks began a week ago were underwhelming, and they would collectively allow global warming to blow well past the dangerous benchmark of 2°C (3.6°F). These are serious problems, threatening to bake the planet -- and the human beings and...
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Crowds march, Pope urges 'courage' as climate talks reach crunch
2015-12-06 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis on Sunday urged nations to act with "courage" while 10,000 climate activists took to the beach in Belgium, a day before UN talks enter their crunch phase in the search for a historic pact against global warming. Ministers begin a frenetic week of negotiations Monday to seal a historic 195-nation agreement in Paris. The envisaged deal seeks to revolutionise the world's energy industry by replacing coal, oil and gas with renewable sources that do not emit heat-trapping greenhouse...
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A secret weapon to fight climate change: dirt
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: When Will Allen is asked to name the most beautiful part of his Vermont farm, he doesnt talk about the verdant, rolling hills or easy access to the Connecticut River. Though the space is a picturesque postcard of the agrarian idyll, Allen points down, to the dirt. This precious resource not only grows food, he says, but is one of the best methods we have for sequestering carbon. We think of climate change as a consequence of burning fossil fuels. But a third of the carbon in the atmosphere...
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