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Barack Obama arrives in Paris UN climate change summit
2015-11-30 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US President Barack Obama touches down at Orly airport outside Paris on Sunday night, ahead of the COP21 climate summit which is taking place in the French capital this week. The summit, due to start on Monday and continue for two weeks, aims to agree on a common global approach to tackling climate change
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Record number of leaders expected for Paris COP21 opening
2015-11-30 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Solar power, carbon pricing and fossil fuel subsidy reform are on the agenda for 150 world leaders due to kick off Paris climate talks on Monday. At the outset of two weeks of negotiation, their role is to show political will for a robust global warming pact. It is an unprecedented turnout for any UN summit outside the General Assembly. Lent an extra poignancy by terrorist attacks in the French capital on 13 November, the day is expected to highlight areas of peaceful cooperation. Multilateral...
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Paris Deal Would Herald Important First Step on Climate Change
2015-11-29 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama and more than 100 world leaders will convene with thousands of diplomats on Monday on the outskirts of Paris to open two weeks of intense negotiations aimed at forging an accord that could begin to avert the most devastating effects of global warming and redefine the economy of the 21st century. Here is a guide to what is at stake. If the talks fail as they did in two previous attempts to achieve such a deal then nations will continue on a trajectory that scientists say locks...
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World leaders arrive in Paris for climate conference
2015-11-29 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: World leaders arrived in Paris on Sunday for potentially historic climate talks that will play out amid security concerns driven by the November 13 terror attacks in France. Frustrations over restrictions on protests put in place following the attacks gave rise to what French President Francois Hollande called "scandalous" scuffles between protesters and police at the Place de Republique, the site of a memorial to victims. French authorities have clamped down on public demonstrations in the...
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Climate protesters clash with police in Paris
2015-11-29 19:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Police in Paris fired teargas Sunday in clashes with climate change activists who pelted them with objects during a demonstration ahead of the COP21 climate talks in the French capital. About two hundred protesters, some wearing masks, fought with police on a street leading to the Place de la République, which has become a gathering place for Parisians since the terror attacks in the capital that killed 130 people earlier this month. Protesters could be heard chanting "State of emergency, police...
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