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Paris climate summit: Can deal be reached at the UNs meeting?
2015-11-26 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: A deal looks likely the political will is there The countries that signed up to the 1992 climate convention the Conference of the Parties or COP in diplomatese started meeting every year in 1995. The third COP meeting established the Kyoto Protocol, to run until 2012. The infamous 2009 meeting in Copenhagen failed to extend the protocol beyond 2012. A major sticking point, as ever, was trying to get industrialised countries to sign up to bigger cuts when developing nations were allowed...
Germany says Paris climate deal must include solid review scheme
2015-11-26 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Next week's climate conference in Paris will only be a success if the final deal includes a solid review scheme that ensures pledges to reduce carbon emissions are really kept, a senior German government official said on Thursday. Officials from nearly 200 countries will meet in the French capital from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 to negotiate a plan to curb global warming by reducing carbon emissions, aiming to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit). National climate action...
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Failure of Paris climate summit would be 'catastrophic': pope
2015-11-26 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis on Thursday warned of a "catastrophic" outcome if vested interests blocked an agreement to tackle climate change at the UN talks opening in Paris next week. "In a few days, an important meeting on climate change will be held in Paris... It would be sad, and I dare say even catastrophic, were particular interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and projects," he said ahead of the summit which officially starts...
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Pope Urges Deal on Climate Change in Paris to Avoid Catastrophe
2015-11-26 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Pope Francis urged world leaders preparing to meet at a United Nations conference on climate change to agree an accord that transforms current development models and focuses on the need to adopt low-carbon energy systems. Negotiators meeting in Paris next week have a political and economic obligation to rethink and correct the dysfunctions and distortions of the current development model, the pontiff said in a speech at the UN Environment Programme headquarters in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi....
Drastic Reductions Meat Consumption Worldwide Help Fight Climate Change
2015-11-26 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Dramatic changes in diets around the world could help to ensure that global temperatures keep from rising above 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. If the world piled on the veggies and cut back on steaks and hamburgers, the UK-based think tank Chatham House said in a report this week, the world could generate a quarter of the remaining emission reductions needed to keep warming from rising above 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) compared to pre-Industrial Age levels,...
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