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UN climate text swells as G77 flexes muscles in Bonn
2015-10-19 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Time-pressed talks on a global climate deal faced delays on Monday after the co-chairs guiding the process accepted their proposed draft agreement lacked support from most countries. UN officials had presented a radically cut 20-page set of proposals earlier this month, but their work was shredded in an intense and angry morning session in Bonn. Instead of planned negotiations, the text swelled rapidly on a binge of over 50 so-called surgical insertions from countries, most ranging between...
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Call for Future Powered by 100% Renewables Gains Momentum as UN Climate Talks Resume in Bonn
2015-08-28 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As negotiators get ready to meet in Bonn for the next round of UN climate change negotiations, fossil fuels remain firmly on the backfoot and momentum for a renewable energy future is gathering pace. This week, French energy giant Total signalled it would be the latest energy company to quit coal, Newcastle, Australia--home to the worlds largest coal port--became the latest city to join the global divestment movement, and scientists, activists and celebrities joined the growing chorus calling...
Bonn climate summit brings us slowly closer global deal
2015-06-12 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conservation: The mid-year Bonn climate negotiations in Germany have unexpectedly agreed a mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) after 10 years of effort. It lays the groundwork to get assistance to countries to help them save forests and reduce potential greenhouse gas emissions. The negotiations represent another step on the road to a potential global agreement at the major summit in Paris at the end of the year. What progress is being made? What are the challenging issues...
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Bonn meeting ends with last-minute compromise on Paris climate text
2015-06-11 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change negotiators meeting in Bonn on Thursday came up with a last-minute compromise that observers hope will put the talks on track for a new global agreement on greenhouse gases. Slow progress was made until the final hours, as nations wrangled over the wording of an 89-page draft text, intending to cut it down to a more manageable size. After two weeks, the text had been cut by just four pages to 85. But shortly before the talks were scheduled to finish, countries agreed that the...
Small Victories at Bonn Climate Talks
2015-06-11 17:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As climate talks wind down in Bonn, Germany, observers of the negotiations say that despite some progress on a draft text, key issues remain unresolved and will carry over at least until the next round in August. These pending items include the legal form of the final treaty, how to fairly distribute emission reduction commitments, and also how to generate sufficient public finance for adaptation to climate change. Athena Ballesteros, director of the Finance Center, World Resources Institute,...
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