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Obama: Paris climate pact can be a turning point for the world
2015-12-14 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama is celebrating victory in getting an international climate accord Saturday, saying it will help stop some of the worst effects of climate change from occurring. In a Saturday evening address at the White House, Obama took significant credit for the United States leading role in the the process toward the agreement. Today, the American people can be proud, because this historic agreement is a tribute to American leadership, he said, highlighting both the domestic climate actions...
Marshall Islands 18-year-old thanks UN for climate pact
2015-12-14 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: My name is Selina Leem and I am a small island girl with big dreams from the island of Majuro in the Marshall Islands. I am only 18 years old but ever since I can remember, I have felt nervous about my home. I have always been hearing my island is changing, that its not the same as what it used to be when my parents and my grandparents were growing up. I remember, back when I was six or seven, my grandpa, told me a story about our islands being submerged by water. I had never been scared...
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Meet the woman who helped seal uprecedented climate-change pact
2015-12-12 11:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: For nearly two weeks, world leaders have been arguing over the minutiae of a deal on the new global strategy to counter climate change. Earlier today (Dec. 12), the final text of this year's climate-change resolution in Paris was signed, sealed, and delivered, as is customary for any United Nations (UN) agreement, in six official languages. And later in the day, in a surprising and historic first, the agreement was also ratified by all 195 countries involved in the negotiations. Finally, Christina...
US threatens to walk out of Paris pact over financial obligations
2015-12-12 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Standard: The chase for Paris climate agreement is going into overtime. French foreign minister Laruent Fabius, who is leading the negotiations, pushed back the deadline to Saturday after another round of all-night talks failed to yield any result till the original deadline of Friday 6pm. While making the formal announcement, Fabius expressed hope that the final package would announced on Saturday morning after negotiations on Friday. On the night between Thursday and Friday, the rich and poor countries...
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Climate Pact Sees Forest for the Trees
2015-12-11 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Even as climate negotiators labored Friday to finalize a pact to slow global warming, it was becoming clear that any new agreement would also help protect forests. A 27-page draft of a planned United Nations climate deal released late Thursday contained a subsection dedicated to the strategic role that forests and jungles could play as countries seek to reduce their impacts on the climate. Nations should "conserve and enhance' greenhouse gas "sinks and reservoirs,' Thursday's draft stated....
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