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What Is the New Climate Change Agreement For, If Not People's Rights?
2015-10-19 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The foundation on which truly resilient and fair societies can be built was defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That Declaration is the moral compass that guides the normative framework of the United Nations; the reference point for the protection of the dignity of all human beings. Signed in Paris, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the two International Covenants, adopted in 1966, do not, however, include a right to a healthy environment. As John Knox,...
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Rich Nations Failing to Do Fair Share to Fight Climate Change
2015-10-19 15:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Friends of the Earth International warned today that rich countries--those most responsible for climate change--are putting us on course for irreversible and more devastating climate change, instead of taking the urgently needed radical action to reduce their carbon emissions. Rich countries seek to shirk responsibility as #Bonn #climate talks open. Press Release: http://t.co/LP8he08Ewp pic.twitter.com/M6KrREQ3SA -- FoEScot (@FoEScot) October 19, 2015 The warning was issued as governments...
US EU avoiding fair share of climate effort
2015-10-19 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The US and EU should make five times the greenhouse gas emissions cuts by 2030 promised in their national submissions to a UN deal. Japan is doing a tenth of its fair share, while Russia is making zero contribution to the global effort to limit temperature rise to 2C. That is the conclusion of a report backed by 18 civil society groups including Oxfam, WWF and Action Aid. Across the board, rich countries are failing to bring the two most important ingredients to the negotiating table ...
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Cutting through the legal fog of a UN climate pact
2015-10-19 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The growing support for a durable and lasting 'Paris Agreement` should help Parties to come to grips with the issue of the legal form or nature of the Paris outcome that has long haunted the negotiations and has indeed caused considerable confusion. Some aspects of the debate on legal form/nature seem to have moved toward settlement as also reflected in the latest negotiating text. First, there seems little doubt that Parties are heading toward the adoption of an international treaty requiring...
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Rich nations 'not doing enough' to fight climate change
2015-10-19 08:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The United States and other rich nations are doing less than their fair share to fight climate change under a U.N. accord due in December, while China is outperforming, a report by 18 civil society groups said on Monday. Overall, governments' pledges for curbs on greenhouse gas emissions are not enough to limit a rise in temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), seen as a threshold for damaging heat waves, downpours and rising sea levels, it said. "The ambition of all major developed...
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