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Fingers pointed as climate talks deadlock
2014-12-13 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: UN climate talks entered a second day of extra time amid deadlock and bitterness Saturday 9Dec 13) as the United States warned failure to compromise could doom the 22-year-old global forum. Supposed to have ended a 12-day run on Friday, the negotiations were mired more than 24 hours later in a row between rich and poor countries over sharing out responsibility for tackling climate change. Chairs of a working group tasked with formulating a text presented negotiators with a laboriously-crafted compromise,...
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Latin American countries criticized climate talks for oil plans
2014-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Latin American countries, participating in crucial global climate talks being hosted in the region this week, came under criticism for their plans to drastically increase oil production. Some influential Latin American nations in the negotiations for a new global treaty to reduce heat-trapping gases have significant plans to increase production and use of fossil fuels, seen as the main culprit of global warming. Brazil is going full speed with investments in areas off its coast that could hold...
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Lima climate talks: Tough decisions deferred as UN meeting winds up
2014-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Negotiators in Peru are racing to reach an agreement in the dying hours of the United Nations climate change talks and have been forced to defer many of the tough decisions until next year. The scramble came as the Abbott Government was accused of "creative accounting" in the way it reported emissions from land clearing and forestry in a new study by German-based research organisation Climate Action Tracker. Australia also took the award of the "colossal fossil" from environment groups as the...
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Climate change battle needs more than talks in Lima
2014-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangkok Post: At this very moment, all eyes are on Lima, Peru, and rightfully so. Peru is currently hosting the COP 20 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). For two weeks, representatives of every country are gathered to iron out the details of what should be the new agreement on climate change, to be signed in Paris in December 2015. The COP 20, and the ongoing climate negotiations as a whole, are more than legal discussions over the drafting of a binding...
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Deadlock on final day of Peru climate talks
2014-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: The United Nations climate talks in Peru entered their final stretch on Friday overshadowed by a long-running dispute over shared responsibility to slow down global warming. Negotiators in the Peruvian capital, Lima, were expected to attempt to break a deadlock between wealthy and developing countries on the key elements of an international pact to collectively tackle climate change. Campaigners in Lima, however, said they feared a weak-willed compromise. "The latest text which countries are working...
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