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Activists rally in Boston as world leaders reach global climate change agreement
2015-12-13 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WCVB: President Obama issued a statement regarding the global climate change agreement accepted by world leaders Saturday. Nearly 200 nations adopt the first global pact to fight global warming. It aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius between now and the year 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels. "Today the American people can be proud because this historic agreement is a tribute to American leadership," said Obama in his statement from...
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World leaders adopt 1.5 C goal damn well going to hold them to it
2015-12-12 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Heres the crucial plaintive paragraph from the preamble to the Paris climate agreement released today, written in the almost indecipherable bureaucratese that attends this international circus: Emphasizing with serious concern the urgent need to address the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with holding the increase in the global average temperature...
Friday Sector Leaders: Railroads, Electric Utilities
2015-12-12 10:32:55| Railroads - Topix.net
In trading on Friday, railroads shares were relative leaders, down on the day by about 0.3%. Leading the group were shares of CSX Corporation , up about 3.5% and shares of Norfolk Southern Corporation up about 1.8% on the day.
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World leaders to vote on global climate change plan
2015-12-11 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KCCI: After years of buildup and weeks of negotiations, diplomats issued a final draft of a climate change agreement Saturday that the French foreign minister described as "fair ... and legally binding." If adopted, the agreement would set an ambitious goal of halting average warming at no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures -- and of striving for a limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible. World leaders hailed the draft as a milestone in the battle...
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UN climate talks go long haul as US, China leaders speak
2015-12-11 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The Le Bourget conference centre in Paris is primed for a frantic night of diplomacy, as 195 countries try to deliver a pact to save the world from dangerous climate change. Laurent Fabius, president of the summit, is understood to have had a series of meetings with all major delegations today to try and resolve outstanding issues. In a sign of the urgency felt in capitals, State Department officials say US president Barack Obama spoke to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about the talks today,...
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