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Barack Obama arrives in Paris UN climate change summit
2015-11-30 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US President Barack Obama touches down at Orly airport outside Paris on Sunday night, ahead of the COP21 climate summit which is taking place in the French capital this week. The summit, due to start on Monday and continue for two weeks, aims to agree on a common global approach to tackling climate change
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France Uses Sweeping Powers to Curb Climate Protests, but Clashes Erupt
2015-11-30 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The French government is using the sweeping emergency powers it gained after the Paris terrorist attacks to clamp down on any possible disruption to the two-week global climate conference that starts on Monday, limiting public demonstrations, beefing up security and placing two dozen environmental activists under house arrest. The efforts to restrict protests as world leaders arrived to reach an international deal to contain global warming were not entirely successful; 174 people were taken...
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China's about-face on climate change
2015-11-30 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: With a hard pledge on peaking carbon emissions and with ever more ambitious targets on installing renewables, China has become one of the countries to watch at this week's Paris conference. The Qinghai Tibet plateau is the heart and lungs of Asia. Here, the continent's weather is made and its great rivers are born. The altitude and the cold make it one of the most extreme climates on earth. When I visited, icy winds gusting at 50mph (80km/h) were whipping a sandstorm into Qie Qun Jia's face as...
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How 2016 Presidential Candidates View Climate Change
2015-11-30 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: Climate change is one of the most critical issues facing the United States and the world. President Barack Obama has made it a top priority of his second term and a cornerstone of his legacy. He has passed some of the most sweeping environmental regulations of any president and laid the groundwork for a global climate change agreement in Paris. His decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline secured his reputation as an environmentalist. Yet it will fall to Obamas successor to determine whether...
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$1 trillion funding gap for poorest countries climate plans
2015-11-30 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate plans by the worlds least developed nations are staked on more than US$1 trillion in finance from wealthy donor governments and private investors. Thats according to calculations by the International Institute for Environment and Development, which suggests the cost of adapting the economies to a warming planet is nearly five times higher than reported. As a two-week UN climate summit begins in Paris on Monday, it lays bare the gap between financial commitments and the costs of tackling...
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