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Development banks pledge $15 bln in new climate funds: officials
2015-10-10 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Development banks including the World Bank have pledged an additional $15 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change, taking the world closer to the clutch target of $100 billion, officials said Friday. Just two months before key UN climate talks in Paris, world leaders are scrambling to reach the magic number of $100 billion in funding to combat global warming and help vulnerable nations cope with the impact of climate change. The figure, agreed in previous rounds of talks, is seen as...
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Pakistan PM delays climate pledge over provincial rivalries
2015-10-06 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: When the UN deadline passed last week, Pakistan was the fifth biggest emitter not to have submitted a climate pledge. Yet top climate official Arif Ahmed Khan told Aamir Saeed, Islamabad correspondent for Climate Home, his department delivered a draft plan to the prime ministers office four weeks ago. It set out three options for greenhouse gas emissions cuts from business as usual by 2030. The preferred target is 10%, with half conditional on international support. That rises to a maximum...
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John West 'has broken tuna pledge'
2015-10-06 12:40:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK's biggest tuna brand, John West, is accused of catching just 2% of its fish using pole-and-line, despite making a pledge that 100% of its tuna would be sustainable by 2016.
India's pledge clears a significant hurdle towards a climate deal in Paris
2015-10-02 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With Indias plan for curbing carbon emissions now in, most of the major developing economies have responded to the UNs requests for the commitments on climate change that will form the keystone of an agreement to be signed in Paris this December. Those commitments to make absolute cuts in future emissions levels, in the case of developed countries; to curb future emissions growth, in the case of less industrialised nations will not add up to the cuts that scientists say are needed to avoid...
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World welcomes India climate pledge
2015-10-02 11:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: India has unveiled plans to clean up its development and adapt to climate change impacts in a long-awaited pledge to the UN. The core targets are to cut emissions intensity -- greenhouse gases for each unit of GDP -- 33-35% by 2030, get 40% of electricity from non-fossil fuel sources and sequester 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 through reforestation. It was the last major emitter to submit its contribution to a global pact due to be signed in Paris this December. Here is a round-up of the...
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