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El Salvador: coastal communities fight tide of climate change in pictures
2015-12-12 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Predictions that rising seas could destroy over a quarter of El Salvadors coastal areas have left people living along the countrys shoreline facing a bleak future
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Climate change draft finalised in Paris
2015-12-12 05:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change has neared the finish line with a draft agreement completed in Paris. After nearly two weeks of tough haggling between bureaucrats and ministers from around the world, French and UN officials have completed a line-by-line edit of an historic agreement that seeks to slow global warming and ease its impacts. 'We have a text to present,' an official in the office of Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who presides over the...
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Climate change deal: India emerges key player Paris talks
2015-12-11 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Express: India has emerged as key player in the negotiations for a crucial climate change deal in Paris that has entered the final phase, according to a media report. India hit back at developed countries that have been accusing it of refusing to yield ground on emissions and funding, saying they were not showing flexibility and posing roadblocks for a comprehensive climate deal, deadline for which was extended by a day yesterday. With just hours remaining before negotiators hopes to close a deal addressing...
World Leaders Scramble to Finalize Historic Climate Change Deal
2015-12-11 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: World leaders are meeting in Paris to finalize a historic climate deal that calls on industrialized nations to cut emissions in an effort to slow the effects of climate change. Government officials are now scrambling to get a deal done after Friday's original deadline passed. Who are the players? The number of countries participating in talks totals 186. The worlds biggest offenders if carbon emissions China, the United States, the European Union and India -- are working on the draft deal....
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Storm Desmond flooding partly due to climate change, scientists conclude
2015-12-11 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Manmade climate change was partly responsible for Storm Desmonds torrential rain which devastated parts of Scotland, the Lake District and Northern Ireland, scientists have concluded. The researchers at Oxford University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) calculated that climate change had made the flooding event 40% more likely, with the estimate of the increased likelihood ranging between 5% and 80%. The increase we found is small but robust, said Dr Friederike Otto...
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