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UN talks to tame global warming enter final, crunch phase
2015-12-06 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis on Sunday urged nations to act with "courage" a day before UN talks aimed at saving mankind from the direst impacts of global warming enter their crunch phase. Ministers begin a frenetic week of negotiations Monday to seal a historic 195-nation agreement in Paris. The envisaged accord seeks to revolutionise the world's energy industry by replacing coal, oil and gas with renewable sources that do not emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The conference in the French capital crowns...
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13 women on the front line against global warming
2015-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vogue: Every year, the United Nations holds a summit on climate change, where it works to persuade countries large and small to give up fossil fuels. This annual gathering, now in its 21st year, is called the Conference of the Parties, and it begins today in Paris. Past negotiations have produced important treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Accord, but this years meeting, the COP21, is likely to yield the worlds first binding, universal agreement to cut carbon emissions and begin...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Climate Change Science And Global Warming Facts Too Hard
2015-12-06 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: According to Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate change, global warming, icebergs melting, and the sea levels rising are just too darn hard for the average brain to comprehend. No, this is not a sarcastic Schwarzenegger one-liner like from the movies. Instead, Schwarzenegger believes there is a failure to communicate the danger posed by climate change and he says "we`ve got to simplify the message" so there is no "miscommunication." In a related report by the Inquisitr, when speaking on climate change,...
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Redford says fighting global warming is urgent
2015-12-04 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: American actor and environmental activist Robert Redford called global warming "an urgent matter" Friday and encouraged mayors to reduce local emissions even as world diplomats are trying to work out a global climate accord. Redford, trustee of the NGO Natural Resources Defense Council, told The Associated Press that the U.N. climate conference under way in Paris is "key." "I think we're running out of time because the planet is running out of resources," he said. "I think now the American...
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Paris climate talks: Africa means business on global warming
2015-12-04 14:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The term glacial pace takes on real and literal meaning with climate change. The disappearance of our glaciers may have hastened dramatically, but our efforts to stop them doing so have moved at a truly glacial pace. This has to change, right now. Since the Kyoto protocol came into being, we have failed miserably to protect our planet. Current trajectories show the world is on track towards a temperature rise of about 3C by 2100. Climate talks in Paris this month are our last chance to turn...
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