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Climate negotiators have plan but it leaves major issues unresolved
2015-12-05 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries on Saturday adopted a draft text that left many issues unresolved before high-level talks in the coming week aimed at reaching a global agreement to fight climate change. The document approved minutes before a noon deadline was full of disputed language and competing options that will have to be disentangled when foreign and environmental ministers start their meetings Monday at Le Bourget, on the northern edge of Paris. After years of talks, many negotiators...
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Taking to the hills: tribal groups face up to climate change
2015-12-05 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tashka Yawanawa's Amazonian tribe lived on the plains along the Gregorio River for millennia -- until a wall of flood water last year forced them to flee their homes for good. "We had never seen a flood this big, this fast, this ferocious," the tribal chief told AFP on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Paris aimed at agreeing a pact to stave off disastrous climate change. He chalked the flooding disaster up to global warming. "This was the first time we felt the direct impact of climate...
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At UN climate talks African nations pledge to restore forests in fight against climate change
2015-12-05 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tree by tree, more than a dozen African governments pledged to restore the continent's natural forests at the United Nations climate talks on Sunday. The earth has lost more than half its forests over the course of human history, according to the World Resources Institute. The deforestation of the world's tropical forests has contributed to climate change by producing up to 15 percent of global carbon emissions, the organization said. The AFR100 initiative is a pledge by African nations to restore...
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Sanders: Climate change poses 'major' national security threat
2015-12-05 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says climate change poses major national security threat to the U.S. I mean, were talking about, according to the CIA, future, major national security issues when people are forced to migrate because their countries or their land are flooded, they cant grow food, Sanders said at a rally in Keene, N.H., on Saturday. Were talking about a major, major crisis. The Vermont senator said there is no longer any debate among scientists...
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How Anxiety Around Climate Change Blocks Us From Taking Action
2015-12-05 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: While most scientists agree that we haven't yet reached the point of no return on climate change, we're getting alarmingly close. The warnings have been issued, and the message is loud and clear: Our individual and collective inaction may lead to unimaginable consequences. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cautioned that without urgent action on climate change, we face a "very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible impacts globally," while Greenpeace estimates...
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