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China rescues US Paris climate deal typo fiasco
2015-12-12 23:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: For over an hour on Saturday night, the Paris talks hung in the balance. At stake was US participation in a global agreement. Screens beaming coverage of the main plenary to thousands of delegates outside were turned off, as what was billed as the coronation of a global climate deal rapidly turned sour. The problem? One word: shall. The issue? Whether the US and other developed countries would be signing up to a UN treaty that would legally bind them to make specific greenhouse gas cuts. That...
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China to set up climate change fund
2015-12-12 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fiji Times: CHINA is preparing to establish a fund for south-south co-operation on climate change. Speaking to Pacific Island journalists in Beijing last week, the People's Republic of China Foreign Affairs counsellor Zhao Jian said China understood and respected the concerns of PICs on this issue. "We know that climate change is a very important issue for island countries," he said. "We can say that in the international arena we always maintain consultation with island countries to see what we can do together...
Obama meets with China president as climate summit begins
2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama kicked off his day at the Paris climate summit with a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, hailing the two nations for their work on climate change but urging greater Chinese cooperation on cyber-crime and maritime issues that include Chinas military construction on disputed reefs in the South China Sea. In remarks before the session, Obama stressed the importance of cooperation between the worlds two largest economies and greenhouse gas emitters, saying that nowhere...
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China to stake leadership claim on climate change, emissions reduction at Paris UN conference
2015-11-28 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Despite pumping as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the next four biggest polluters combined, China will use this week's UN conference in Paris to stake a global leadership claim on climate change. Six years on from the disappointing Copenhagen conference, where China was seen by the West as largely impeding a binding agreement, Beijing is bringing a raft of ambitious commitments to the table. Chief among them, a state-led investment drive for renewables with an aim of sourcing 20...
China shows commitment in fighting climate change: French FM
2015-11-28 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: China, an important player in fighting climate change, has shown its commitment and set a good example in addressing this global challenge, adding positive signs that a new climate agreement will be reached in Paris over the next two weeks, said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday. Fabius, who will start to chair a United Nations climate conference on Monday, told reporters that he saw proofs of China's commitment in his 11 visits to the country in past years. "China is a country...
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