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The players who can make or break a Paris climate deal
2015-11-27 19:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Negotiators from 195 nations gather in Paris on Monday to try to broker a universal climate pact to rein in global warming and keep Earth liveable for humanity. From the world's biggest polluters to the tiniest island states at risk of disappearing under the waves, they must find a way to compromise on half a dozen potential deal breakers. These are the players -- nations and alliances -- that could make or break the chance of making deal by the December 11 deadline for the end of the talks:...
Paris climate summit: Will nations make bigger cuts after Paris?
2015-11-27 18:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Paris is just the start. The aim is to ratchet up the action in the coming years Any deal signed in Paris will establish a floor rather than a ceiling for cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, says chief UN negotiator Christiana Figueres. The idea is that every five years or so, countries will be asked to review their targets to see if they can do more. The details of this "ratcheting mechanism" have yet to be agreed, but it would have to be entirely voluntary to win support. However,...
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El Corte Inglés and BRAC make Tazreen donations
2015-11-27 10:55:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Spanish department store retailer El Corte Inglés and international development organisation BRAC have made "significant" donations into the Tazreen compensation fund, three days after the third anniversary of the factory fire that killed 112 workers.
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Minister to make fracking decision
2015-11-27 08:13:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The decision to allow shale gas drilling - or fracking - in Lancashire will be made directly by the government, it has emerged.
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Climate Change Will Make Bad Borrowers of Govts, S&P Says
2015-11-27 05:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Thailands credit rating downgraded by two levels. Dominican Republic lowered one grade. These are not real news headlines yet, but could be, according to scenarios outlined by Standard & Poors. The ratings company has concluded after a study that if the damage to the environment continues unabated, there is no way global economic activity, trade or national budgets will stay unaffected. In other words, climate change will cause credit-rating downgrades. Using data from reinsurance company...
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