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Climate Change Meeting To Focus On Ensuring Countries Keep Commitments
2015-06-01 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The world's governments are meeting today in Bonn, Germany, to work on a U.N. agreement to tackle climate change, a day after European energy companies urged them to adopt a pricing system for carbon emissions. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce, who is reporting on the story for our Newscast unit, says the meeting in Bonn is part of the run-up to a major climate summit being held in Paris at the end of the year. Here's more from Nell: "Negotiators from nearly 200 countries have gathered in Bonn. They're...
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Climate change: The bumpy road to the Paris talks
2015-06-01 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
bbc: In little more than six months' time representatives of almost 200 countries will sit down in Paris to thrash out a deal on climate change. The momentum is building, with environmentalists, politicians and scientists all keen to avoid what one called a "Copenhagen 2 scenario". Behind the headlines there appears to be an effort to manage expectations. And a whole new lexicon is building around the talks at the end of the year. Take INDCs - Intended Nationally Determined Contributions....
Climate change: Major energy companies write UN request help setting up carbon pricing scheme
2015-06-01 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Six major energy companies have written to the United Nations asking for help in setting up a carbon pricing scheme to help tackle climate change. BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Statoil, Eni and the BG Group asked Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to help them hold direct dialogue with the UN and willing governments about developing a scheme to charge those who produce carbon emissions. We have important areas of interest...
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Martin OMalley Enters Presidential Race Calling Climate Change Greatest Business Opportunity
2015-05-31 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Hillary Clinton may be the prohibitive favorite, and the Democratic slate for the presidential nomination almost certainly wont be as large as the Republican field. But Saturday, another credible candidate joined Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the race: former Maryland Governor Martin OMalley, who left office in January after serving for eight years. And, like Clinton and Sanders, those who care about the climate will find him a more sympathetic candidate than anyone on the GOP side....
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Pope Francis' climate change encyclical expected to make global impact
2015-05-30 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Haven Register: Pope Francis much anticipated encyclical about climate change will make a major impact throughout the Roman Catholic Church and beyond, propelled by the severity of the issue and the popes personal popularity, say religious and environmental leaders in Connecticut. According to Mary Evelyn Tucker, who teaches in Yales schools of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Divinity and Law, This is the most important thing that will happen in our lifetime on the environment. Tucker, a Catholic, coordinates...
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