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Bernie Sanders: Paris Climate Change Deal 'Goes Nowhere Near Far Enough'
2015-12-12 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blaze: The Paris climate pact does not go far enough, according to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who also took the opportunity to slam Republicans Saturday morning for caring too much about the fossil fuel industry. In a press release from the Vermont senators campaign Saturday, Sanders said the accord presented to the delegates attending the international climate summit in Paris goes nowhere near far enough to force nations to lower planet-warming carbon emissions. While this...
Encounter with a Climate Change Warrior A Simple Farmer from Kenya
2015-12-12 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
York Daily Record: For the past 9 days, we have been privileged to attend the United Nations Climate Change COP 21 in Paris with a group of York College students and professors supported by the American Chemical Society. We have been within an arms reach of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as he walked right by us on his way to a press conference down the hall, attended the 2015 Winners of the UN Climate Change Solutions Awards Fete where rapper Sean Paul performed, and participated in several scientific briefings...
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A generation of progress climate change
2015-12-12 18:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Here is a look at the major global conferences on climate change over the past 23 years: Rio de Janeiro 1992: For the first time, countries agree at an Earth Summit that climate change represents a "serious worldwide risk." The UNFCCC, the United Nation's climate organization, was created. Berlin 1995: The first U.N. Conference of the Parties, or COP-1, summit is held. Children play around a big globe in Kyoto, Japan, on Nov. 29, 1997 in advance of the opening of the 3rd Conference of Parties...
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Paris climate deal: key points at a glance
2015-12-12 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Keeping temperatures below 1.5C Governments have agreed to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels: something that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago. Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments There is a scientific rationale for the number. John Schellnhuber, a scientist who advises Germany and the Vatican, says 1.5C marks the point where there is a real danger of serious tipping points in the worlds climate. The goal of 1.5C is...
Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments
2015-12-12 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: By comparison to what it could have been, its a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, its a disaster. Inside the narrow frame within which the talks have taken place, the draft agreement at the UN climate talks in Paris is a great success. The relief and self-congratulation with which the final text was greeted, acknowledges the failure at Copenhagen six years ago, where the negotiations ran wildly over time before collapsing. The Paris agreement is still awaiting formal adoption,...
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