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Bonn climate talks kick off with stark warning over dangerous carbon threshold
2013-04-29 11:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The latest round of international climate change talks commenced today with the now perennial warning about the need for greater urgency from governments as they battle to curb global greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking at the opening of the annual week of talks, which are intended to lay the ground work for the UN's next major climate summit in Poland later this year, the head of the UN's climate change secretariat, Christiana Figueres, warned diplomats they "must do more and do it faster". She...
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2 Big Issues to Watch at this Weeks Bonn Climate Talks
2013-04-28 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Its been almost four months since the last UNFCCC negotiations in Doha, Qatar (COP 18). Countries decided in Doha to finalize the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, wrap up a series of decisions on the Bali Action Plan, and outline a plan to establish an international climate agreement by 2015. Countries will gather this week in Bonn, Germany, for the first formal conversations since the Doha meeting. This weeks intersessional is a low key, but important session. Negotiators will...
Cool heads needed in Bonn for five-day talks on climate change
2013-04-27 07:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: More than two decades have passed since Margaret Thatcher, as British prime minister, delivered a remarkable speech to the second World Climate Conference, in Geneva, warning that global warming was a greater threat to the world than tyrants and their tanks. Speaking in November 1990, long in advance of the first Earth Summit, she said: Our ability to come together to stop or limit damage to the worlds environment will be perhaps the greatest test of how far we can act as a world community...
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Work on 2015 climate deal set to start in Bonn
2013-04-24 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: UN talks to construct a legally binding climate change deal are set to start on April 29, amid warnings from scientists that greenhouse gas emissions are rising too far, too fast. Organisers say the scope, structure and design of a 2015 emissions agreement will be discussed during the week-long negotiations involving 195 countries. Financial commitments and the ambition of emission targets for developed and developing nations are likely to dominate the summit. The discussions in Bonn...