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What does the Paris Agreement mean for Pakistan?
2015-12-19 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dawn: Twenty-three years after the Earth Summit of 1992, it took just a few minutes for the Paris climate agreement to be adopted on December 12th at COP21. I watched it happen live on a video screen put up in the hallways of the Le Bourget conference center, as with my media badge, I could not get into the plenary that final day. Ministers hugged each other and there were plenty of wide smiles and applause. The media stationed outside the plenary went into a frenzy, with bleary-eyed TV journalists...
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A new era of opportunity: Paris Agreement succeeds setting up health insurance for planet
2015-12-18 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Seventy years ago, the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II. Seven decades later, in Paris, nations have united in the face of another threat the threat to life as we know it due to a rapidly warming planet. Governments have ushered in a new era of global cooperation on climate change one of the most complex issues ever to confront humanity . In doing so, they have significantly advanced efforts to uphold our Charter mandate to "save succeeding generations". The Paris...
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Obama says Paris climate pact will boost clean energy next decade
2015-12-18 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said that the international agreement on climate change reached in Paris has set in place a demand for clean energy that will not be dependent on U.S. congressional action. "We now have a global marketplace for clean energy that is stable and accelerating over the course of the next decade," Obama said in a White House press conference. "That then creates a different dynamic that is independent of what Congress does, but also helps to shape what Congress...
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Paris Climate Deal Could Stave Off Disaster, Al Gore Says
2015-12-18 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The world may have just turned the corner in the battle against climate change, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says. The Paris agreement, which 195 nations signed over the weekend, could be the breakthrough that lets humanity avoid a looming climate catastrophe, Gore said here Wednesday (Dec. 16) at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The plan of action laid out by the accord, "while far from ideal, nevertheless sets in motion a process of change that gives us an...
Paris Was Just a Way Station in the Climate Change Fight
2015-12-18 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: On November 29, over 1 million people in 175 nations took to the streets, in the largest protest demanding immediate action on climate change in history. Among them were 10,000 people in Paris forming a mass human chain, despite a ban on protests enforced by police with batons, tear gas and concussion grenades, and who would go on to make arrests. The next day, 150 heads of statethe largest such gathering evercame together in Paris to work towards a legally binding global accord on climate change....
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