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Why the Paris climate talks might actually work
2015-11-20 17:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: Earth is running a high fever. October 2015 was not only the hottest October on record, according to NASA, NOAA and the Japan Meteorological Agency, but it was the highest monthly anomaly in 135 years of temperature data. 2015 is now widely expected to end up as the hottest year on record, a title currently held by 2014. Luckily, Earth also has a big doctor's appointment coming up: the highly anticipated Paris climate talks, where world leaders hope to reach a new treaty for curbing global climate...
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Whats really at stake at the Paris climate conference now marches are banned
2015-11-20 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Whose security gets protected by any means necessary? Whose security is casually sacrificed, despite the means to do so much better? Those are the questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and the answers are the reason climate summits so often end in acrimony and tears. The French governments decision to ban protests, marches and other outdoor activities during the Paris climate summit is disturbing on many levels. The one that preoccupies me most has to do with the way it reflects the...
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Republicans ransom US Green Fund pledge ahead of Paris climate summit
2015-11-20 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Republicans are grappling to erode US climate credibility ahead of December`s Paris climate conference as payback for their exclusion from negotiations by President Barack Obama. GOP senators are taking ransom a US$3 billion pledge to the UNs flagship Green Climate Fund which helps developing countries tackle climate change. Unless the Republican-dominated Senate gets a vote on an anticipated new climate agreement, it wont release the $500 million first tranche. Americas contribution...
Renault-Nissan Alliance installing 90 new charge spots for COP21 summit in Paris
2015-11-19 20:55:21| Green Car Congress
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US senators vow to block climate aid, scrutinize Paris deal
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday said Congress would not approve the Obama administration's $500 million request for its first payment into a United Nations climate fund, a move they said would undermine the upcoming climate change summit in Paris. "This president is going to go (to Paris) with no money," said Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who chaired a hearing in the Senate environment panel on the international climate negotiations, which begin on Nov. 30. Capito...
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