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Climate curbs will slow temperature rise; more needed for 2C goal: UN
2015-10-30 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Plans by about 150 countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions will slow climate change this century but they need to do more to limit rising global temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), the United Nations said on Friday. Scientists say warming must be kept below 2 degrees by the end of the century to stave off the worst effects of climate change such as floods, droughts and rising sea levels. National strategies would restrict a rise in world emissions to the equivalent of 56.7...
UN climate chief: global emissions pledges not enough yet
2015-10-30 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Governments' emissions-cutting pledges ahead of a global conference in December are a good step toward achieving an international global warming goal, but they aren't yet enough, the U.N. climate chief said Friday. The plans submitted by 146 countries for the climate conference in Paris could cut average global emissions per capita of greenhouse gases by up to 8 percent by 2025 and 9 percent by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, a U.N. assessment found. U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres'...
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Climate targets spread across the world, but not bold enough yet
2015-10-30 10:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Synthesis report on the aggregate effect of INDCs report assessing countries contributions to the Paris climate agreement released today by the UNFCCC sets off alarm bells for all governments to strengthen current, inadequate climate targets before they are put into effect and at latest by 2018. The report confirms that current commitments are too low to keep temperature rise below the agreed two degrees threshold and without an upgrade would not prevent catastrophic climate change impacts...
UN says climate plans 'not enough'
2015-10-30 10:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UN has released its assessment of national plans to limit climate change, submitted by 146 countries. Officials say the submissions, in their current form, won't keep global temperatures from rising by more than the 2C danger threshold. The global total of carbon emissions will continue to grow, although more slowly than over the past two decades. However the UN report says the plans are a major step forward and the 2C goal is still "within reach". The UN believes that these national...
Paris Climate Summit may get world at least halfway toward global warming target
2015-10-30 10:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Climate change news tends to come in two forms -- depressing and downright dire. However, two new reports released Friday morning offer reason for optimism concerning the potential outcome of the upcoming Paris Climate Summit that begins Nov. 29. A U.N. report analyzing the 119 separate emissions reduction pledges from 146 countries shows that, if implemented to their fullest extent, the emissions cuts would limit the forecast temperature rise to around 2.7 degrees Celsius, or about 4.8 degrees...
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