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Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline on climate grounds
2015-11-06 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: US president Barack Obama is to reject plans for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, weeks ahead of a UN climate summit in Paris. The 1,179 mile long pipeline would have carried high-carbon tar sands oil from Canada to the US gulf coast and was fiercely opposed by green groups. "This morning secretary [of state] Kerry told me after extensive outreach the Keystone pipeline would not serve the national interests of the US," Obama said in a White House statement, flanked by Kerry and vice...
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Exxon 'misled public on climate change'
2015-11-06 17:01:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Oil giant Exxon Mobil is being investigated for misleading the public about the impact of climate change.
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UN fund approves its first climate aid for poor nations
2015-11-06 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) said Friday it had approved its first financing of projects to help developing countries fight global warming, three weeks before a summit opens in Paris to ink a climate rescue pact. Finance is a divisive issue as rich and developing nations negotiate a global agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, and conference host France has said firm money commitments will be key to getting an agreement in December. The GCF said in a statement its board had approved...
Climate pledges 'far from enough' to halt global warming: UN
2015-11-06 10:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN warned Friday that nations' carbon-cutting pledges go nowhere near far enough to prevent dangerous global warming, as political efforts gain speed three weeks before a Paris summit tasked with sealing a climate rescue pact. National pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions -- if respected -- would yield only a third of the cuts needed by 2030 to keep Earth from overheating, according to a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report. The voluntary targets "are not sufficient to limit global...
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New York investigating Exxon over climate statements: source Thursday, November 5
2015-11-06 06:28:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas in this file photo from September 15, 2008. Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi/Files The New York attorney general has launched an investigation into whether Exxon Mobil Corp misled the public and shareholders about the risks of climate change.
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