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Diverse Paris climate targets create accounting headache for carbon markets -report
2016-02-18 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Carbon Pulse: The diversity of the pledges made by countries to the UN climate summit in Paris creates accounting challenges for carbon trading and might require international oversight, according to a Wuppertal Institute report. The Paris Agreement marked the first time nearly all countries took on national commitments to help battle climate change, goals known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). But the pledges varied in nature: some were absolute GHG emission reductions, some were intensity-based...
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What Does the Paris Climate Agreement Say about Waste?
2016-02-18 09:23:00| Waste Age
The subjects of recycling, composting, minimizing waste and the concept of Zero Waste emerged as priority solutions for a carbon-free future at the Paris climate talks. read more
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Todd Stern: US will sign and support Paris climate change pact
2016-02-16 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Lead US climate envoy Todd Stern has arrived in Europe on a charm offensive, days after the White Houses low carbon energy plan was delayed by the Supreme Court. The veteran negotiator told lawmakers in Brussels the US would ratify the Paris climate pact this year, arguing it was really premature to assume the Clean Power Plan will be struck down. Stern also dismissed fears a future Republican president would wreck the deal, despite fierce opposition from frontrunners Donald Trump, Ted Cruz...
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Todd Stern warns Republicans against scrapping Paris climate deal
2016-02-16 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: President Obamas special envoy for climate change has warned Republican presidential hopefuls including Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that any attempt to scrap the Paris climate agreement would lead to a diplomatic black eye for the US. Speaking to journalists in Brussels, Todd Stern also said that a recent supreme court decision to block Barack Obamas clean power plan would not affect US climate pledges, or plans to formally sign up to the Paris agreement later this year. Republican candidates...
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U.S. will sign Paris Agreement and stick to it - Stern
2016-02-16 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United States will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change this year regardless of the Supreme Court's decision to put a chunk of President Barack Obama's environmental action on hold, the U.S. climate envoy said on Tuesday. Todd Stern also said that Obama's successor, even if it is a Republican, would be unlikely to scrap the Paris deal as to do so would have negative diplomatic implications. The U.S. Supreme Court this month put on hold regulations to curb carbon dioxide emissions...
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