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Obama: Climate summit a 'rejection' of terror
2015-11-30 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Combating climate change will prove to be a rebuttal of terrorist efforts, President Barack Obama declared at the opening of a major climate summit in Paris. "What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it," Obama said Monday at the COP21 conference, being held at a highly secured site outside the French capital two weeks after ISIS terrorists carried out a bloody rampage. "We have come to Paris to show our resolve," Obama said, saying...
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US is partly to blame for climate change: Obama
2015-11-30 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveMint: President Barack Obama told world leaders who gathered northeast of Paris on Monday for a climate conference that the United States is at least partly to blame for the life-threatening damage that environmental change has wrought, and he urged world leaders to join him in fixing the problem. "I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter,' Obama said, "to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this...
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With climate at 'breaking point', leaders urge breakthrough in Paris
2015-11-30 11:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth's rising temperatures, with the United States and China urging the climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight against global warming. In a series of opening addresses to the U.N. talks, heads of state and government exhorted each other to find common cause in two weeks of bargaining to steer the global economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels. French President Francois Hollande said the world...
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The secretive trade agreements could scupper climate change action
2015-11-30 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: While all the focus and hope for tackling climate change is on COP 21 in Paris, starting today, secretive global trade deals are already negating any commitments that might be made at the summit. The texts from the various trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP), make it clear that they will increase production, trade and consumption of fossil fuels. What we know of the EU trade deals with Canada (Ceta Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) and the US (TTIP ...
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Climate change march: photos from across Australia and New Zealand
2015-11-30 05:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Guardian readers were among hundreds of thousands of people marching against climate change in Australia and New Zealand over the weekend as part of a global campaign to move away from the use of fossil fuels. Protests were held in Melbourne on Friday, and in Darwin, Brisbane and across New Zealand on Saturday, followed by Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Hobart and Perth. Around the world, more than 600,000 people took to the streets in 175 countries to call for a strong deal in Paris that will...
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