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The pain of producing global climate change deal
2015-06-12 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: "It's like having a baby, you don't know what it will look like until it is born." Laurence Tubiana, French special representative for the 2015 Paris climate conference, used a surprising analogy in a news conference at the Bonn climate talks when asked what sort of agreement might be struck. After almost two weeks of negotiations in the German city, progress towards a new international climate deal, set for inking in Paris, appears to be moving slowly. If all goes to plan, the baby will come...
Bonn climate summit brings us slowly closer global deal
2015-06-12 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conservation: The mid-year Bonn climate negotiations in Germany have unexpectedly agreed a mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) after 10 years of effort. It lays the groundwork to get assistance to countries to help them save forests and reduce potential greenhouse gas emissions. The negotiations represent another step on the road to a potential global agreement at the major summit in Paris at the end of the year. What progress is being made? What are the challenging issues...
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Climate debate takes global pulse ahead of Paris summit
2015-06-06 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: From the typhoon-ravaged Philippines to the Arizona desert, thousands of people began gathering Saturday, June 6 in small groups in 79 countries for what was touted as the biggest public debate on climate change Results of the day-long consultations will be submitted to climate change negotiators ahead of a year-end United Nations summit in Paris, where world leaders will gather to forge a new treaty aimed at curbing global warming. "I hope that decision makers will find this initiative an...
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Philippine climate campaigner launches global pilgrimage
2015-06-05 07:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: After a high-profile stint as the Philippines' top climate envoy, demanding world powers do more to fight global warming, Yeb Sano is embarking on an epic pilgrimage to force change. Sano will this weekend begin a global odyssey to places vulnerable to climate change, starting with the cyclone-devastated Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. He is leading a "People's Pilgrimage", culminating in a 60-day trek to Paris for a United Nations summit in December when...
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Press Release: NFU Asks Appropriations Subcommittee to Include Funds for Global Climate Change Mitigation Efforts
2015-06-02 22:30:07| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org NFU Asks Appropriations Subcommittee to Include Funds for Global Climate Change Mitigation Efforts WASHINGTON (June 2, 2015) National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson today called for amendments to the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill allocating money to the Green Climate Fund,
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