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Thursday draft Paris agreement aims for well below 2C warming
2015-12-11 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A draft Paris climate agreement circulated on Thursday evening was well received by veteran observers of the talks. Its clear they have made progress, said Jennifer Morgan from the World Resources Institute, but it is not over till it is over. The numbers of options for ministers to decide from has been radically reduced -- a gamble from the French presidency of the COP. The new version of a deal would commit 195 countries to slash net carbon emissions to zero in the second half of...
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Indigenous rights highlight day 11 of the Paris climate change conference
2015-12-11 00:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Canadas call to recognize human and indigenous rights at the Paris climate talks was largely met Thursday with a new draft agreement that also attempts to strike a balance between a 1.5- and 2-degree Celsius warming target. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna had stressed late Wednesday how critically important it was to include strong language that recognizes human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples. The latest draft, coinciding with human rights day at the summit, kept and...
Obama speaks to France's Hollande about Paris climate talks progress
2015-12-10 21:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande spoke by phone on Thursday to discuss progress in international climate change talks taking place in Paris, the White House said. "President Obama and President Hollande reviewed the progress that has been made and underscored their firm commitment to work together to reach an ambitious and durable climate change agreement," the White House said in a statement.
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Paris climate change deal 'meaningless' without plan for deeper emissions cuts
2015-12-10 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The Paris climate deal will be "meaningless" and will fail to avert dangerous global warming unless countries agree to pledge deeper emissions cuts every five years, the EU has warned, as talks look set to overrun their Friday deadline. An agreement signed at the UN summit will "never achieve" its aim of preventing extreme climate change unless China and other emerging economies drop their opposition to a five-yearly review process, Miguel Arias Caete, the EUs climate commissioner said. The...
Activists to defy protest ban giant civil disobedience end Paris climate talks
2015-12-10 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As negotiators try to finalize a UN climate pact being hailed as dangerously insufficient, a network of groups will express their outrage and pledge continuing action in the new year with massive civil disobedience at an iconic French site. Organizers hope to send a message that leaders should not try to claim the agreement is a success - with industrialized countries refusing to commit to a fair share of emissions reductions, putting the world on a path toward a catastrophic 3 degrees of warming....
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