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Paris accord is a big win for Obama, even as climate dangers still loom
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: On an unseasonably mild December day in Washington, President Obama had reason to bask in the sun. Across the Atlantic, international climate negotiators completed an agreement that owed much of its success to the willingness of the U.S. president to take on both congressional Republicans and fossil-fuel-industry executives on an issue that consistently ranks among the lowest priorities for American voters. Although the international agreement reached in Paris on Saturday still leaves the world...
Climate accord doesn't end in Paris
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: he pledges made so far arent nearly enough to meet the Paris target of keeping the planet well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit of warming. So the agreement is less a solution than it is an effort to provide more structure and encouragement to the effort to control man-made climate change. In the best case scenario, the Paris accord will evolve like the competition between countries, and increasingly across regions, to sign new free trade agreements. Successive rounds of negotiations take on their...
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How the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy. Six years earlier, countries had bitterly walked away from global climate talks in Copenhagen without a deal. The decision to reassemble in Paris to try again at getting almost 200 countries to sign a pact on cutting carbon emissions was a gamble: another collapse could the end worlds ability to forge a common approach to dealing with climate change. And no political leader wanted his reputation...
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How one word nearly killed the climate deal
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The proposed accord was just hours from a final vote when the glitch was spotted. Someone had changed a single word in the draft text -- from a should to a shall -- and suddenly the entire climate deal appeared at risk of faltering. Secretary of State John F. Kerry phoned his old friend, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in exasperation over a tiny revision that implied huge new legal and financial obligations. We cannot do this, Kerry warned. Less than four hours later, the...
A climate deal, 6 fateful years in the making
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: It took almost two weeks for negotiators from 195 countries to finally pass the landmark climate accord this weekend after several espresso-fueled all-nighters and long, passionate debates over the meaning of a single word, such as "shall." But the story of how the deal came together started long before that - in December 2009, with the failure of the last such summit meeting, in Copenhagen. That gathering was, in hindsight, a case study in how not to do a deal. The hosts of the event had set...
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