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UN climate talks in deadlock over weak finance pledges
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: UN negotiations to develop a global climate treaty in 2015 remain in stasis, with deep divisions between envoys over the levels of responsibility rich and poor countries need to take for global warming. The Warsaw summit was set to conclude on Friday, but ran on throughout the night, with reports of increasingly angry and frustrated discussions behind closed doors. Our expectations have been shattered, we are saddened, said Bangladeshs lead negotiator Quamrul Chowdhury. Speaking for the...
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Deadlock in fractious climate talks
2013-11-23 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: UN climate talks in Poland have ended with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming. After 30 hours of deadlock, they approved a pathway to a new global climate treaty in Paris in 2015. The agreement was achieved after a series of last minute compromises often involving single words in draft texts. Negotiators also made progress on the contentious issue of loss and damage that developing countries are expected to suffer in a warming world. Green groups were angry...
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Fears deadlock at UN climate talks in Warsaw
2013-11-18 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Gloom to match Warsaws overcast skies has descended over the UNs 19th climate change conference, with little progress made during the first week despite the Philippines typhoon disaster and an impassioned plea for urgent action from its climate envoy, Yeb Sano. Hundreds of climate activists braved the chill to march on Saturday from the citys Palace of Culture past the National Stadium, where the conference is being held, to a rally in nearby Skaryszewski Park. Organised by Polands small Green...
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Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines Urges Action to Resolve Climate Talks Deadlock in Aftermath of Storm
2013-11-11 10:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: The Philippines government has firmly connected the super typhoon Haiyan with climate change, and urged governments meeting in Poland on Monday to take emergency action to resolve the deadlocked climate talks. "We cannot sit and stay helpless staring at this international climate stalemate. It is now time to take action. We need an emergency climate pathway," said Yeb Sano, head of the government's delegation to the UN climate talks, in an article for the Guardian, in which he challenged climate...
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