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Philippines typhoon strikes as nations, activists discuss climate action in Peru
2014-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: While loved ones braced for the full impact of Typhoon Hagupit back home, Filipino activists in Lima urged climate negotiators Saturday to act with more urgency in drafting a global plan to limit such potentially life-threatening events. To us in the Philippines, we are not any more debating on whether or not the impacts of climate change are here, we have experienced it, Voltaire Alferez of the Aksyon Klima Pilipinas NGO grouping said on the sidelines of the talks. Year after year we are bombarded...
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Peru climate change talks slowed by clashes rich & poor nations
2014-12-07 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: International climate talks in Lima, Peru, are entering their final week, with few hints of whether a newfound optimism that marked the start of negotiations will ultimately translate into an agreement that would rein in climate change. Convened by the United Nations, the talks aim to craft the framework for an international accord to curtail heat-trapping emissions and adapt to changes already occurring on the planet. The final agreement is due to be signed in Paris next December. Despite...
Peru glaciers 'melting at alarming rate'
2014-12-06 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Experts have warned that Peru's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, threatening the survival of an estimated 30 million people. The water from the glaciers is used to generate hydro power and for irrigation. Scientists say the glaciers have lost more than one-fifth of their mass in just three decades due to global warming. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.
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Peru climate talks drift off target
2014-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: As Julie Bishop and Andrew Robb prepare to arrive in Lima to represent Australia at the annual United Nations climate negotiations, deep divisions are emerging over whether a deal to be reached in Paris next year will include legally binding targets. The US says national targets should be voluntary a position that has won the support of leading Australian economist Ross Garnaut. But the European Union has claimed that voluntary targets will not provide the necessary long-term certainty to...
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Deforestation jumps in Peru
2014-12-04 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon increased significantly last year, says a top official. Speaking to the press at U.N. climate change talks in Lima, Gustavo Suarez de Freitas of MINAM, Peru's environment ministry, said 145,000 hectares of rainforest was cleared last year, a sharp increase over the average of 113,000 hectares per year since 2001. Suarez de Freitas attributed most of that loss to agriculture. The remarks come nearly a year and a half since Peru released an assessment of recent...
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