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Leonardo DiCaprio addresses world leaders on climate change: 'The world is watching'
2016-04-23 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Leonardo DiCaprio has told leaders "the world is watching" as they sign an historic agreement to combat climate change. The actor, who used his Oscar acceptance speech in February to highlight the seriousness of climate change, addressed world leaders at the UN headquarters in New York before they signed the Paris Agreement, a treaty which requires them to cut carbon emissions. "Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong," DiCaprio said. "After...
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World leaders sign on to climate change deal
2016-04-22 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Village Sun Times: The recent El Nio likely played a role in many or all of these, but scientists say climate change nearly certainly did too. The US is a key concern for the Paris Agreement as other countries worry what the next president might do. The non-binding treaty, approved in Paris in December after years of United Nations climate negotiations, aims to slow the rise of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, blamed for putting Earth on a risky warming path. "Today marks a beginning, a historic start"....
Leaders 171 countries sign landmark Paris Agreement climate change
2016-04-22 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Courant: Leaders from 171 countries sign landmark Paris Agreement on climate change - Hartford Courant Nation & World Nation & World Leaders from 171 countries sign landmark Paris Agreement on climate change Paris Agreement Mark Lennihan / AP U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds his granddaughter Isabel Dobbs-Higginson as he signs the Paris Agreement on climate change, on April...
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Global leaders agree to set price on carbon pollution
2016-04-21 10:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: Six world leaders and the heads of powerful multilateral organizations agreed Thursday to push for broader implementation of carbon pricing schemes to accelerate the fight against global warming. The leaders of Canada, Germany, France, Mexico, Ethiopia and Chile, along with the IMF, World Bank, and OECD, pressed for the use of carbon pricing to cover 25 percent of global emissions within four years, double the current level. And they...
Some oil companies undeterred as global leaders sign on to Paris climate deal
2016-04-18 01:06:56| Energy - Topix.net
With almost 150 countries, including Canada, poised to sign the Paris climate agreement at the end of this week in New York, some of the world's biggest oil companies aren't convinced there's any end in sight for fossil fuel use. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be among signatories from some 147 countries convening Friday at the United Nations headquarters on Earth Day, the first opportunity to formally sign the global climate agreement completed in December.
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