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UN climate change talks in Warsaw hampered by development gap
2013-11-21 05:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Developed and developing nations were deadlocked Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with global warming, in another setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress toward a new global climate accord. With two days left in talks trying to reach a new agreement meant to be concluded in 2015 and enter into force from 2020, negotiators for developing nations including China walked out early Wednesday from a meeting about compensation for the impact...
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Man-Made Climate Change Mostly Due Just 90 Companies
2013-11-21 03:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research suggests. The companies range from investor-owned firms -- household names such as Chevron, Exxon and BP -- to state-owned and government-run firms. The analysis, which was welcomed by the former Vice President Al Gore as a "crucial step forward" found that the vast majority...
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UN Climate Change Talks Met With Discord On Who Pays The Bill
2013-11-21 01:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Whether it is being caused by human activity or not climate change has ignited a heated debate between representatives of rich and poor countries at this weeks UN climate summit in Warsaw, Poland. At the meeting, developing nations are calling for more affluent countries to accept greater responsibility for climate change and pay for any incurred damages accordingly. Poorer countries argued that rich nations have built up their economies are the expense of lower greenhouse gas levels and therefore,...
Cost of climate change adaptation could destabilise African countries, UN warns
2013-11-20 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: African countries are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and could struggle to feed and defend their people as temperatures rise, according to a major UN report. The cost of developing drought-resistant crops, providing early-warning systems for floods, droughts and fires, and building seawalls, dykes, and wave breaks will be vast, says the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) emissions gap report, launched this week at an African environment ministers' meeting in Warsaw. It will cost Africa...
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Climate Change Saboteurs
2013-11-19 11:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CounterPunch: The climate change saboteurs are mucking in with their bits of devastating advice. Australia, as it promised to do with its new conservative government, has taken the lead against carbon pricing as a mechanism of curbing pollution. Its newly elected Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is a minted climate change denialist. Even as continents burn, and typhoons rage, expediency is too sacred a calf to sacrifice. In the Australian context, mining corporations touch the status of the divine. Australia has...
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