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Boston mayor heading to China for climate change summit
2016-06-05 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is heading to China this week to talk about the challenge that climate change poses to urban areas. The Democrat will join a delegation that includes officials from 20 U.S. municipalities taking part in a low-carbon cities summit in Beijing on Tuesday and Wednesday. Walsh says Boston has made significant progress, but is always looking for other ways to better prepare for and adapt to the consequences of climate change. The summit is billed as an opportunity for officials...
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China Set to Blitz 2020 Climate Goal as Emissions Flatline
2016-05-31 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: Ahead of the release of China`s five-year energy strategy, Greenpeace analysts say real world carbon intensity cuts are ahead of target Remko Tanis Follow 18th CPC Congress Beijing Nov 2012 China's leaders at the start of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China China expects coal use to fall and greenhouse gas emissions to flatline through 2016, according to analysis of the governments energy strategy by Greenpeace. The...
China, U.S. pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year
2016-04-25 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China and the United States, the world's top producers of greenhouse gas emissions, pledged on Friday to formally adopt by the end of the year a Paris deal to slow global warming, raising the prospects of it being enforced much faster than anticipated. The United Nations said 175 states took the first step of signing the deal on Friday, the biggest day one endorsement of a global agreement. Of those, 15 states also formally notified the United Nations that they had ratified the deal. Many countries...
U.S., China to Sign Paris Climate Accord in April
2016-04-02 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United States and China confirmed this week that they will sign the Paris climate change agreement in New York on April 22, a move that officials hope will help the accord enter into force this year. The world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters issued a joint presidential statement on Thursday in which they called on other countries to sign the accord next month "with a view to bringing the Paris Agreement into force as early as possible." Leaders from nearly 200 countries forged the...
China, India hail hard-fought Paris climate pact
2015-12-19 05:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama on Saturday said the new global climate agreement "offers the best chance we have to save the one planet we have" and credited his administration as being a driving force behind the deal. Not since the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997 - almost 20 years ago - had a United Nations climate summit ended on such a high note, with prolonged applause, cheering, standing ovations, hugs and even tears. Some delegates wept, others embraced. With 2015 forecast to be the hottest year...
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