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Bernie Sanders: Paris Climate Change Deal 'Goes Nowhere Near Far Enough'
2015-12-12 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blaze: The Paris climate pact does not go far enough, according to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who also took the opportunity to slam Republicans Saturday morning for caring too much about the fossil fuel industry. In a press release from the Vermont senators campaign Saturday, Sanders said the accord presented to the delegates attending the international climate summit in Paris goes nowhere near far enough to force nations to lower planet-warming carbon emissions. While this...
Paris climate deal: key points at a glance
2015-12-12 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Keeping temperatures below 1.5C Governments have agreed to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels: something that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago. Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments There is a scientific rationale for the number. John Schellnhuber, a scientist who advises Germany and the Vatican, says 1.5C marks the point where there is a real danger of serious tipping points in the worlds climate. The goal of 1.5C is...
Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments
2015-12-12 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: By comparison to what it could have been, its a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, its a disaster. Inside the narrow frame within which the talks have taken place, the draft agreement at the UN climate talks in Paris is a great success. The relief and self-congratulation with which the final text was greeted, acknowledges the failure at Copenhagen six years ago, where the negotiations ran wildly over time before collapsing. The Paris agreement is still awaiting formal adoption,...
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Climate Activists Gather in Paris to Protest Outcome of Conference
2015-12-12 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Several thousand climate activists from across Europe and many from farther afield gathered peacefully near the Arc de Triomphe on Saturday to protest the outcome of the COP 21 climate conference about 12 miles away. The demonstration was an official exception to a ban on public gatherings across France after the Paris terrorist attacks in November. Even as the delegates at the official conference center were announcing a final draft of an agreement and applauding their achievement, the crowds...
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Paris climate change deal: Protesters mark red lines symbolise lines they don't want negotiators to cross
2015-12-12 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Thousands of protesters gathered in central Paris on Saturday for what was dubbed a 'red line protest', while in the suburbs of the French capital a draft climate deal was announced. Groups of climate activists at the demonstration carried giant red banners to symbolise 'the red lines' that they don't want negotiators to cross in trying to reach an international accord to fight global warming. Activists called attention to populations threatened by melting glaciers, rising seas and expanding...
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