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Building on momentum: Two ways to make progress at the Bonn climate talks
2013-06-05 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Delegates at April's U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, made some encouraging progress. As negotiators gather again this week, it's important that they build on this progress and take action on two key topics: raising ambition, and establishing core elements of the 2015 international climate action agreement. Indeed, there's an even greater sense of urgency since delegates met for the April intersessional. The world crossed a perilous and alarming threshold, with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels...
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Encouraging signs of progress from Bonn climate talks
2013-05-07 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: A slight breath of fresh air entered the UNFCCC climate negotiations last week in Bonn, Germany. Held in the old German parliament - which was designed to demonstrate transparency and light - the meeting took on a more open feel than the past several COPs and inter-sessionals. Instead of arguing over the agenda, negotiators got down to work, discussing ways to ramp up countries' emissions-reduction commitments now and to move toward a 2015 international climate action agreement. Reaching these...
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Successful week of talks in Bonn looks towards finalising dynamic climate deal in 2015
2013-05-04 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The global agreement to combat climate change due to be concluded in 2015 is now likely to include a dynamic element that would allow new scientific evidence to be taken on board as time passes. At the end of a week-long round of talks in Bonn, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said it was still unclear how this racheting mechanism would be achieved, but the process needed to match the clarity of science. Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations will soon pass the 400 parts per million...
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Nations seek flexible climate approach, but no breakthrough in Bonn
2013-05-03 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New, more flexible ways to fight climate change were sketched out on Friday at the end of a week of talks between 160 nations, but there was no breakthrough in bridging a deep divide between China and the United States. The meeting of senior officials in Bonn, Germany, aired formulas to resolve disputes between rich and poor on sharing out the burden of curbing greenhouse gas emissions as part of a new U.N. deal, a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Attempts to reach agreement have foundered...
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Bonn climate change talks going 'surprisingly well', say delegates
2013-05-02 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: The most surprising thing is that theres an awful lot of common sense being spoken on a whole range of issues, and its getting better as the week goes on, said Matthew Kennedy, of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. There is a relaxed atmosphere at the talks, which are being held in the former West German Bundestag (parliament) on the right bank of the Rhine built in the late 1980s just prior to German reunification and the move back to Berlin. Its been a reasonably good start,...
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