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Airlines support carbon emissions deal despite costs: trade group
2016-06-03 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Airlines want one global deal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from air travel despite higher costs, in order to avoid a patchwork of regulation that would be harder to manage, an executive of the International Air Transport Association trade group said on Friday. The market-based plan must win the support of the United Nations aviation agency's 191 member countries at a fall assembly, or risk the European Union's imposing its own emissions trading scheme on international airlines. At its...
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Worldwide Support For an Ambitious Climate Change Deal Is Faltering, New Poll Says
2015-11-27 09:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: A new poll released ahead of the U.N.-led climate change conference in Paris says that support around the world for an ambitious global climate-change deal has slipped in recent years. Only four of the 20 countries surveyed displayed majority support for setting lofty targets for the upcoming conference, according to the BBC. Less than half of the people surveyed considered climate change a "very serious" issue, according to the GlobeScan research group, the BBC reports. In 2009, the same...
COP21: Public support for tough climate deal 'declines'
2015-11-27 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Public support for a strong global deal on climate change has declined, according to a poll carried out in 20 countries. Only four now have majorities in favour of their governments setting ambitious targets at a global conference in Paris. In a similar poll before the Copenhagen meeting in 2009, eight countries had majorities favouring tough action. The poll has been provided to the BBC by research group GlobeScan. Just under half of all those surveyed viewed climate change as a "very...
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German support for U.S-EU trade deal drops on food, safety worries: poll
2015-05-07 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Support among Germans for a Europe-U.S. free trade deal has fallen sharply over the past year with many in Europe's biggest economy worrying about its impact on food standards, auto safety and the environment, a new opinion poll released on Thursday showed. The Pew Research Center poll showed only 41 percent of Germans think the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a good thing, compared to 50 percent of Americans. While U.S. opinion was little changed over the last year, German...
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Call UN climate deal support carbon market links
2014-11-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Countries around the world are developing an array of different carbon taxes and trading systems to control greenhouse gas emissions. The more these can be joined up, experts say, the cheaper it will be to tackle climate change. This argument is gaining ground among businesses and developed economies, but advocates fear anti-capitalist Latin American states could use UN climate negotiations to block it. Dirk Forrister, CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), says there...
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