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California governor in Paris to push pact to curb emissions
2015-11-29 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: California Gov. Jerry Brown is heading to the U.N. Climate Change conference, which opens Monday, where he will promote the state's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and urge other states and provinces to sign on to his climate pact. So far, 57 jurisdictions from 19 countries have added their signatures to a memorandum promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Brown, a Democrat, has toured the world talking about climate change this year, seeking...
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Latin American leadership: critical to securing a Paris climate pact
2015-11-28 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: This week an unprecedented number of Latin American leaders will travel to Paris for the United Nations climate change talks. Alongside an estimated 120 heads of state, presidents from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru will lend their support to the creation of a new global agreement on climate change. Some Latin American presidents are very aware that a strong global deal is critical for their countrys future as uncontrolled global emissions could lead to dangerously high...
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Hamstrung by Congress, Obama tries to clinch climate pact
2015-11-28 07:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is trying to negotiate a legacy-making climate change pact this coming week in Paris with one hand tied behind his back. Congress can't even agree whether global warming is real. Scientists point to the global agreement, years in the making, as the last, best hope for averting the worst effects of global warming. Obama has spent months prodding other countries to make ambitious carbon-cutting pledges to the agreement, which he hopes will become the framework for countries...
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New York AG Announces Pact with Clinton Landfill Over Pollutants
2015-11-16 15:02:00| Waste Age
Pantagraph.com A controversial Central Illinois landfill will be prohibited from accepting certain kinds of chemical wastes without first obtaining a green light from local governments under a long-awaited settlement unveiled Thursday. read more
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Paris climate pact could leave forests vulnerable
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Efforts to foster forests and slow deforestation, which is one of the leading causes of global warming, are largely being glossed over by most nations as they prepare for a historic round of climate negotiations. It remains unclear whether any agreement struck during the upcoming U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change session, which begins in Paris at the end of this month, will explicitly mention forestry. But forestry and farming are "implicitly' going to play roles in a climate pact "no...
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