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Climate change deal will not include global carbon price: UN climate chief
2015-10-27 13:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A climate change deal to be agreed in Paris in December will not be able to come up with a global carbon price, the United Nations' climate chief, Christiana Figueres, said on Tuesday. Big multinational companies and investors, and most recently oil majors, have called for a global carbon price to help spur investments in low-carbon energy. A global carbon price would help to create an incentive for operators of power plants and factories to switch to cleaner fuels such as gas or to buy more...
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Current climate commitments would increase global temperature around 3°C
2015-10-27 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: A JRC assessment shows that current climate commitments submitted by 155 countries for COP21 would increase global temperature around 3ºC. Credit: EU, 2015 155 countries representing around 90% of global em…
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Global climate deal could punish Canada
2015-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau will face one of his first major international tests at next months United Nations meeting on climate change in Paris. In all, 25,000 delegates -- including Canadas premiers whom Trudeau plans to bring along -- from 196 countries will make yet another attempt to draft a binding global agreement to fight man-made global warming. But the same fundamental disagreements which scuttled a similar deal in Copenhagen in 2009 and, prior to that, produced the failed...
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Climate change more catastrophic for the global economy than we thought
2015-10-23 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When it comes to climate change, the dark truth is that most people couldnt care less about it crippling the environment. So instead, lets talk about something people tend to think about: dollars. A new study, published in Nature on Wednesday, suggests in pretty strong terms that climate change will do some serious wallet damage on a global scale. On average, the authors predict well see a 23 percent reduction in projected global output by 2100 due to climate change (relative to a world without...
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Fight climate change for global stability, says US defence and diplomacy figures
2015-10-22 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nearly 50 leaders of Americas defence and foreign policy establishment are calling on political and business leaders to think past tomorrow and lead the fight on climate change. In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal the experts 48 former secretaries of state and defense, national security advisers, diplomats and members of Congress from both parties say it is time for America to claim global leadership on climate change. The appeal is intended to apply pressure to Republicans...
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