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Diplomats guilty of tobacco fraud

2014-12-08 17:36:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Gambian diplomats who sold tax-free tobacco from their London embassy are found guilty of cheating the UK taxpayer out of almost 4.8m.

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Diplomats confront stark divide as climate talks begin

2014-12-02 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: The Obama administration is hoping for fresh momentum toward a climate treaty during international talks this week in the Peruvian capital, but the immediate challenge may be to simply keep the negotiations from breaking down. Officials from 190 countries gathered in Lima on Monday for 12 days of meetings intended to lay the foundations for a carbon-cutting pact that would be signed a year from now in Paris. But achieving even modest progress will require overcoming stark differences over what...

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Lima climate change talks best chance for a generation, say upbeat diplomats

2014-11-30 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: UN climate negotiations opening in Lima on Monday have the best chance in a generation of striking a deal on global warming, diplomats say. After a 20-year standoff, diplomats and longtime observers of the talks say there is rising optimism that negotiators will be able to secure a deal that will commit all countries to take action against climate change. The two weeks of talks in Peru are intended to deliver a draft text to be adopted in Paris next year that will commit countries to reduce...

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Climate Activists Look Solutions From Business, Diplomats

2014-09-22 22:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Business and corporate leaders are starting to take climate risk seriously enough to put money on the table to do something about it.

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Foreign diplomats shrug off leaked report of US spying and bugging at climate talks

2014-01-31 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: Yvo de Boer, the former head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change who presided over the epic 2009 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, says he learned nothing new in reports that the United States spied on diplomats there and prefers not to dwell on the past. In an interview with ClimateWire a day after The Huffington Post and a Danish newspaper published documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden exposing the National Security Agency actions at the Copenhagen conference, de...

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