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Cooper union approves labor pact
2013-11-25 19:51:57| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Unionized Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. workers on Sunday approved a new labor pact that includes pay raises, production guarantees and benefits.
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Pollution Pact From China to India Shows Rift: Carbon & Climate
2013-11-24 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: China and Indias success in weakening the latest global warming agreement created friction with other developing nations that are seeking to step up the fight against climate change. The two countries insisted on single-word changes for a deal at a United Nations conference involving 190 nations on Nov. 23. Instead of making commitments to roll back fossil fuel emissions, they signed up for contributions, a formulation that allows more flexibility in their action. Those last-minute revisions...
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Rich-vs.-poor nations' clash stalls work toward 2015 climate pact
2013-11-23 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The issue that has prevented a major advance in the battle against global warming for two decades has scuttled progress at the latest U.N. gathering aimed at forging a climate pact by 2015: how much rich nations should pay to help developing countries build their economies with clean-energy sources. The United States and the European Union wanted a firm deadline set at the conference in Warsaw for each of the 195 countries party to the talks to make commitments on emissions reductions that will...
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US negotiating team brings blueprint for voluntary climate pact
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Tout President Obama's Climate Action Plan. Ask for support to prevent countries from "backsliding" on a global 2015 agreement that binds all major emitters. And say that compensation for climate damage "isn't a productive avenue" for the United Nations to travel. Those are some of the U.S. delegations's suggested talking points for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's 19th annual conference in Warsaw, Poland, this week and next, according to a State Department memo obtained by ClimateWire....
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New climate pact must consider historical emissions: Chinese official
2013-11-15 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: A new global pact under discussion at the ongoing UN climate talks should take into account historical carbon emissions by developed countries, a Chinese official said here Thursday. Su Wei, deputy chief of the Chinese delegation, said industrialized countries are mainly responsible for greenhouse gas emissions in the past two hundred years. The current climate change was caused mainly by developed countries since the industrial era as greenhouse gas has an atmospheric life of 50 to 200 years,...
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