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Nations strike historic deal climate change
2015-12-12 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Delegates from 195 countries approved on Saturday a historic climate accord that seeks to slow the rise of greenhouse gasses blamed for putting Earth on a dangerous warming path. Called the Paris Agreement, the document is the result of five sets of grueling negotiations this year. It seeks to limit rising temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial levels through the year 2100. It also keeps the door open to a more ambitious 1.5-degree (2.7 degrees...
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Global climate conference adopts historic deal
2015-12-12 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A global climate conference on Saturday adopted an international accord aimed at transforming the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and slowing the pace of global warming. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius banged down his gavel to rapturous applause, signaling the deal was agreed by nearly 200 nations.
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World Agrees to Historic 'Paris Agreement' to Address Climate Change
2015-12-12 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries reached an agreement Saturday on what they say signifies the most important international pact to address climate change since the issue first emerged as a political priority decades ago. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who headed up the United Nations conference, commonly known as COP 21, said the final deal successfully resolved points of contention that had taken negotiations into overtime and called the agreement the best possible text. We have...
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Nearly 200 countries near historic accord to slow global warming by reducing emissions
2015-12-12 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: France crafted an unprecedented deal to slow global warming by cutting and then eliminating greenhouse gas pollution, urging climate negotiators from nearly 200 nations to adopt it Saturday. If the pact known as "the Paris agreement" is approved, countries would be committed to keeping the rise in global temperatures by the year 2100 compared with pre-industrial times "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and "endeavor to limit" them even more, to 1.5 degrees Celsius. That was...
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A historic climate-change deal has been unveiled Paris
2015-12-12 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: After months of preparation and weeks of negotiation, world leaders have reached a climate-change deal at this year's Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris. It is the most ambitious international agreement ever to face up to the threat of global warming, as the final text of the deal makes clear. Here are the main points: An aim to keep global mean temperature within 1.5°C of that which existed before the industrial era. This is a more ambitious goal that the 2°C goal that nearly 200 governments...
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