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Cabinet approves signing the Paris Agreement on Climate change
2016-04-21 07:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quadrangle: Cabinet approves signing the Paris Agreement on Climate change Thanks to China, global Carbon dioxide emissions have flatlined after years of rampant growth. Once 55 countries that account for more than 55 percent of the world's emissions have formally joined the agreement it will enter into force (here is a cheat sheet to keep track of where things stand as we approach these thresholds). Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo starts a visit to the USA on Thursday. Developed countries "shall...
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India to sign Paris pact on climate change in New York
2016-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: India will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted by more than 190 countries in December last, on Friday in New York. The Union Cabinet today aopproved the signing of the agreement, adopted during the 21st Conference of Parties held in the French capital. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will sign the agreement on behalf of India on April 22 at a high-level signature ceremony convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. India had advocated a strong...
Some oil companies undeterred as global leaders sign on to Paris climate deal
2016-04-18 01:06:56| Energy - Topix.net
With almost 150 countries, including Canada, poised to sign the Paris climate agreement at the end of this week in New York, some of the world's biggest oil companies aren't convinced there's any end in sight for fossil fuel use. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be among signatories from some 147 countries convening Friday at the United Nations headquarters on Earth Day, the first opportunity to formally sign the global climate agreement completed in December.
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Some oil companies undeterred as global leaders sign on to Paris climate deal
2016-04-18 00:46:39| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
With almost 150 countries, including Canada, poised to sign the Paris climate agreement at the end of this week in New York, some of the world's biggest oil companies aren't convinced there's any end in sight for fossil fuel use. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be among signatories from some 147 countries convening Friday at the United Nations headquarters on Earth Day, the first opportunity to formally sign the global climate agreement completed in December.
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U.N. climate chief predicts Paris deal will take effect early
2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new global pact to tackle climate change, agreed in Paris in December, could come into force two years earlier than the planned date of 2020, the U.N. climate chief has said. "I think we will have a Paris agreement in effect in 2018, predicted Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at a lecture in London on Monday evening. The agreement, originally slated to take effect in 2020, will come into force once 55 countries representing...
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