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Paris climate deal is agreed but is it really good enough?
2015-12-12 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: History has been made in Paris - but perhaps not the kind of history we hoped. The climate summit in Paris may come to be remembered as the moment when the world`s leaders let the last hope of limiting warming to 2 °C slip away from us. The Paris agreement, which covers the period 2020 to 2030, is a better deal than many expected, and if countries stick both to the spirit and the letter of the agreement, it could give us a good chance of limiting global warming to under 4 °C and perhaps even under...
Paris climate deal: nearly 200 nations sign in end fossil fuel era
2015-12-12 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments have signalled an end to the fossil fuel era, committing for the first time to a universal agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change at crunch UN talks in Paris. After 20 years of fraught meetings, including the past two weeks spent in an exhibition hall on the outskirts of Paris, negotiators from nearly 200 countries signed on to a deal on Saturday evening that set ambitious goals to limit temperature rise and to hold governments...
A climate deal has been made in Paris! Heres what it says
2015-12-12 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
On Earth: Well, that was easy. I mean, not that easythere apparently was some late-night posturing and maybe even some shoutingbut negotiators from 195 nations in Paris actually managed to hammer out a climate change deal. The agreement will incorporate the carbon reduction goals that each country proposed prior to the meeting, with a goal of keeping the global average mean temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius over the long term. The negotiators may have overshot their self-imposed deadline, but if...
COP21: Paris agreement formally adopted
2015-12-12 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Envoys in Paris have agreed an international accord to limit greenhouse gas emissions that marks a turning point in more than 20 years of effort to prevent dangerous levels of global warming. Envoys from nearly 200 nations cheered and hugged one another on the floor of the convention centre hall at Le Bourget airport, north of the city centre, as Frances foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, declared the new pact had been formally adopted, just before 7:30pm in Paris. The new pact, to be known as...
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World Agrees to Historic 'Paris Agreement' to Address Climate Change
2015-12-12 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries reached an agreement Saturday on what they say signifies the most important international pact to address climate change since the issue first emerged as a political priority decades ago. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who headed up the United Nations conference, commonly known as COP 21, said the final deal successfully resolved points of contention that had taken negotiations into overtime and called the agreement the best possible text. We have...
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