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What will it take to get a climate accord in Paris?
2014-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: At a news conference in Lima where scientists showed that 2014 is likely to be the hottest year ever, the United Nations' top climate official said out loud what has been on everybody's minds as treaty negotiations creep forward. It is "very clear" that countries' pledges on carbon emissions won't be ambitious enough to tip the world into a rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, said Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change....
London will follow Paris and ban diesel cars, campaigners warn
2014-12-08 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: London will follow Paris and introduce an outright ban on diesel cars which are causing "serious health damage" in the capital, campaigners warn. The Mayor of Paris has announced radical plans to ban diesel cars from the French capital by 2020 due to concerns about how much pollution the cars cause. Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, is also grappling with the issue of how to tackle pollution from the fuels fumes which contain tiny particles and nitrogen oxides and have been increasingly proven...
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Paris mayor wants to ban diesel cars by 2020 to fight pollution
2014-12-07 13:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The mayor of Paris called for diesel cars to be banned from the French capital by 2020 and said pedestrian-only neighborhoods should be created in the city center as part of a plan to fight pollution. Anne Hidalgo told the Journal de Dimanche in an interview published on Sunday that her anti-pollution plan would be discussed at a city council meeting on December 9. "I want to see the end of diesel in Paris by 2020," she said, adding that there exceptions could be made for low-income car owners...
UN sets modest hopes for climate pledges 2015 Paris summit
2014-12-04 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Government pledges due in 2015 to cut rising world greenhouse gases will be too weak to avert the worst of global warming and merely be part of a long haul to agree far tougher curbs, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told Reuters TV at 190-nation talks in Lima on limiting warming that it was unrealistic to expect a miracle solution at a U.N. summit in Paris in a year's time. Governments agreed in 2010 to a long-term goal...
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Include more adaptation efforts in Paris climate deal: India
2014-12-03 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Madhyamam: With the ministerial-level talks to begin next week at the UN climate summit here, India Wednesday said its position remains very strong on the need for a balanced inclusion of adaptation efforts in the 2015 Paris agreement and less focus on mitigation. Sushil Kumar, interim head of the Indian delegation at the talks, said the first two days of the 12-day conference are "off to a good start" with discussions on adaptation and finance underway. He said that today countries participated in sessions...
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