je.st
news
Tag: climate
Nations strike historic deal climate change
2015-12-12 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Delegates from 195 countries approved on Saturday a historic climate accord that seeks to slow the rise of greenhouse gasses blamed for putting Earth on a dangerous warming path. Called the Paris Agreement, the document is the result of five sets of grueling negotiations this year. It seeks to limit rising temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial levels through the year 2100. It also keeps the door open to a more ambitious 1.5-degree (2.7 degrees...
Tags: change
deal
strike
historic
Time to turn words into climate action: IMF chief
2015-12-12 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Words must be put into action to save the planet, IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned, after envoys from 195 nations approved in Paris Saturday a historic accord to stop global warming. The post-2020 Paris Agreement ends decades-long rows between rich and poor nations over how to carry out what will be a multi-trillion dollar campaign to cap global warming and cope with the impacts of a shifting climate. "The Paris Agreement is a critical step forward for addressing the challenge of global climate...
Paris agreement a victory for climate science and ultimate defeat for fossil fuels
2015-12-12 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The right hand of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gripped the gavel in the seconds before striking the historic first global deal on climate change. Dignitaries, politicians and delegates had filed into the packed La Seine plenary room from about 5.30pm here in Paris. But there was still time for some last minute drama. It turned out that a paragraph that contained the word shall should have read should, but the delay was enough to create tension across the venue. But this is...
Tags: for
science
agreement
paris
Climate change: Will '1.5 to stay alive' deal enough save Seychelles?
2015-12-12 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Each time the Seychelles roving ambassador for climate change returns home to the islands, he notices new clumsy piles of rocks disfiguring the beaches. Local people are blowing up the mountains inland, using the rocks to protect the sand from being swept out to sea by storm surges. I will be in New York three or four months, go home and see the beach and will ask people: What happened?, said Ronald Jumeau, the ambassador for climate change who is based at the United Nations mission. And...
Paris climate deal is agreed but is it really good enough?
2015-12-12 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: History has been made in Paris - but perhaps not the kind of history we hoped. The climate summit in Paris may come to be remembered as the moment when the world`s leaders let the last hope of limiting warming to 2 °C slip away from us. The Paris agreement, which covers the period 2020 to 2030, is a better deal than many expected, and if countries stick both to the spirit and the letter of the agreement, it could give us a good chance of limiting global warming to under 4 °C and perhaps even under...
Sites : [523] [524] [525] [526] [527] [528] [529] [530] [531] [532] [533] [534] [535] [536] [537] [538] [539] [540] [541] [542] next »