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UN climate talks go long haul as US, China leaders speak
2015-12-11 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The Le Bourget conference centre in Paris is primed for a frantic night of diplomacy, as 195 countries try to deliver a pact to save the world from dangerous climate change. Laurent Fabius, president of the summit, is understood to have had a series of meetings with all major delegations today to try and resolve outstanding issues. In a sign of the urgency felt in capitals, State Department officials say US president Barack Obama spoke to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about the talks today,...
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Brazil joins 'ambition coalition' UN climate talks
2015-12-11 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Brazil said Friday it had joined the European Union, United States and 79 developing nations in a group calling for a far-reaching deal at UN climate-saving talks in Paris. The informal "high ambition coalition", announced by the European Union during the 195-nation conference in Paris this week, includes more than half of the countries of the world but is not a formal negotiating bloc. Nevertheless, the alliance is calling for a legally binding, fair, durable agreement in Paris that must set...
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India says success Paris climate talks 'not guaranteed'
2015-12-11 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: India's environment minister warned Friday that success at Paris climate-saving talks was not guaranteed, saying rich nations were baulking at the concerns of poorer counterparts. The developed world is not "accommodating and is not showing flexibility" to the concerns of developing countries, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters. The 195-nation talks in the French capital were to conclude Friday. But France said they would be extended, hoping to wrap them up on Saturday...
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Red lines, condoms & Arc de Triomphe: Climate activists step up protests
2015-12-11 17:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: From storming the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris to handing out condoms to bureaucrats in the suburbs, climate change activists stepped up public stunts on Friday in a last-ditch bid to get negotiators to agree a powerful accord. Two weeks of U.N. talks to forge a global agreement to temper global warming are set to continue into Saturday, a day later than scheduled, as officials from 195 nations seek to resolve stubborn differences over how to cut back fossil fuel use and shift the planet toward...
Virginia Islanders US First Climate Change Refugees
2015-12-11 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: For Tangier Island, Va., lifelong resident Claudia Parks, climate change is a direct threat to her golf cart. As flooding and erosion have worsened on the Chesapeake Bay island in recent decades, the tour director with a broad smile avoids certain saturated roads at least 15 times in the spring and fall during tidal events on her regular work route. That involves getting visitors past the local ice cream shops, white picket fences and marshy hills that dot this car-free fishing community. When...
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