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Countries, environ groups at odds over green fund role in $100b pledge
2014-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: More than 190 nations at international climate talks in Lima, Peru, continued Dec. 10 to work on overcoming a serious rift over the aid richer nations are to give to developing nations under a 2015 global climate deal. Delegates hadn't even agreed on a basic definition of what is or isn't climate finance. But the major issues were much broader, centering on what assurances the U.S. and other rich nations can give to demonstrate they are ramping up climate aid to the $100 billion-a-year amount...
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India Ducks China Energy Pledge, Plans Renewables Splurge
2014-12-11 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: India, the worlds third-largest polluter, will spend at least $100 billion on climate-related projects but isnt ready to follow China and the U.S., the top two emitters, in promising to limit its fossil-fuel emissions. India has been under the spotlight at the United Nations climate meeting in Lima after China became the first large developing country to agree to limit emissions in a pact announced with U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to that country last month. Obama will go to...
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11-Year-Old Demands Climate Action With Vow of Silence Pledge
2014-12-10 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: I am writing to tell you about a brave 11-year-old boy named Itzcuauhtli (eat-squat-lee). I first saw him in videos with his brother Xiuhtezcatl (shoe-tez-cot), performing hip-hop inspired by their love for the Earth and their indigenous roots. In September, I had an opportunity to meet him at the Peoples Climate March in New York City, and I was impressed by his passionate voice. A few weeks later, after performing at a conference with his group Earth Guardians, Itzcuauhtli became overwhelmed...
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Latin American & Caribbean Nations Pledge Major Forest Restoration Efforts
2014-12-08 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Latin American and Caribbean countries yesterday launched Initiative 20x20, an effort to begin restoring 20 million hectares of degraded land -- an area larger than Uruguay -- by 2020. The initiative has secured $365 million in funds, its leaders announced, which will be used to restore forests, avoid deforestation, and improve the use of trees and livestock in agriculture -- practices known as agroforestry and silvopasture. This restoration is expected to provide extensive economic, social, and...
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Last holdout among big palm oil producers joins no-deforestation pledge
2014-12-05 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Singapore-based palm-oil business Musim Mas announced Thursday that it will make sure that the oil it purchases hasn`t been harvested in ways that cause deforestation. Musim Mas handles about 18 percent of the world`s palm oil. It was the last of the big palm oil companies that hadn`t agreed to fight against land clearing and human rights abuses. The announcement comes one year after Wilmar International, the biggest player in the palm-oil game, agreed to take a stand on the issue. Since then,...
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