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Delegates react to the Paris climate change text video
2015-12-12 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Key delegates give their thoughts on the final text of the COP21 draft climate deal after it was revealed by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday morning. Some delegates had yet to see the text, which now needs to be approved by nearly 200 participating countries
COP21: NGOs react to prospective UN Paris climate deal
2015-12-12 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Reaction to a prospective Paris climate pact is pouring in from green groups and aid agencies. They welcome its aim to limit temperature rise to 1.5C if possible, a tightening of the previous 2C threshold for dangerous global warming. It sends a clear message that fossil fuels are on the way out, they say -- although more action is needed to make the goal a reality. For the world`s poor, the agreement represents "a frayed lifeline", says Oxfam. It doesn`t meet all their demands but provides...
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Paris Negotiations turn to Zulu-style meetings
2015-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Climate negotiators have turned to the idea of "indaba" a traditional Zulu meeting style as they seek breakthroughs on the disputes still plaguing the Paris climate talks. Indaba refers to a gathering of Zulu and Xhosa people of southern Africa at which "principled men" get together to attempt to find common ground, or a common story, on a problem that affects them all, with everybody getting a chance to speak. More than two decades of slow progress suggests few issues are trickier than...
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Climate deal unveiled in Paris, a 'historic turning point'
2015-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: French foreign minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a "historic" measure for transforming the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming. At the tail end of the hottest year on record and after four years of fraught UN talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperilled island states against rising economic powerhouses, Fabius urged officials from nearly 200 nations to support what he hopes...
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Final draft of climate deal agreement unveiled in Paris
2015-12-12 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: After years of buildup and weeks of negotiations, diplomats issued a final draft of a climate change agreement Saturday that the French foreign minister described as "fair ... and legally binding." If adopted, the agreement would set an ambitious goal of halting average warming at no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures -- and of striving for a limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible. World leaders hailed the draft as a milestone in the battle...
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