Global climate talks
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Rich countries need to give more to plug huge funding gap and help developing nations adapt to drought, flooding and heatwaves caused by climate change, says UN report
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This week delegates and activists began arriving in the Peruvian capital for the COP20 UN climate talks, where nations will negotiate a draft text on a climate deal to be agreed in Paris next year
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Climate talks in Lima can save the Amazon rainforest by recognising rights of its best protectors, writes Dan Collyns
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Karl Mathiesen: On the tiny coral islands of Kiribati sandbags hold back the rising sea and drought means no fresh water. For the Pacific Islanders living at the sharp edge of climate change any result in Lima will be too little, too late
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Activists say their presence at the meeting in Peru would be embarrassing to President Rafael Correa, who wants to drill for oil in the Amazon
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Record average temperatures highlight the urgent need to agree a deal on emissions at the UN climate change talks in Lima
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Australia heads to major climate negotiations in the wake of high level defence of its coal industry
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Unless December turns unusually cold, 2014 will beat 1995, 2006, 1990 and 2011 as the warmest year on record
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Group of least-developed nations at UN climate summit say rich counties should do ‘substantially more’ to cut emissions
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Curious absence of the Philippines’ key negotiator could be due to political pressure from rich countries ahead of crucial climate negotiations, say NGOs
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Michael Jacobs: Avoiding dangerous climate change depends on the strength of emissions reduction targets countries collectively adopt. And this remains a major concern
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EU says mandatory carbon emissions cuts should be set for all countries, whereas US wants individual countries to be free to adjust the scale and pace of reductions
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As the UN climate talks open in Lima to agree on a draft text for a binding treaty in Paris in 2015, here is a timeline of world’s top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide since the dawn of industrialisation
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COP20 is a forum for regional green policies not just global climate targets
Julian Hunt in London and Joy Pereira in Kuala LumpurWith Latin America already hit by climate change, talks in Lima are the perfect chance to discuss local green programmes, write Julian Hunt and Joy Pereira
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Failure will condemn developing countries to unchecked climate change for another generation, and the poorest countries will be worst hit, writes John Vidal
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Time is running out for agreeing legal framework for emissions cuts, EU official warns
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Graham Readfearn: World leading coral scientist attacks foreign minister saying Australians deserve better representation at international climate meeting
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Todd Stern claims the world will have to forgo developing reserves of oil, coal and gas in order to solve global warming
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Climate scientist Chris Rapley and his co-author of the acclaimed play 2071 explain why the 2015 Paris climate summit cannot be allowed to fail – for all our sakes
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International talks in Paris in 2015 could see the world’s nations agree to limit global warming to a rise of 2C. Actually achieving that target will require huge commitments – not least by developed nations
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RTCC: Harper government fulfils promise to help developing countries address climate impacts
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Thirty nations meeting in Berlin pledge just short of $10bn target for fund to help developing countries deal with global warming
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Ed Davey: If the world’s poorest countries are to develop in a way that creates a sustabinable climate, richer countries have to help them
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Britain’s commitment to UN’s green climate fund is greater than that of Germany or France and only surpassed by US and Japan
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Janaki Lenin: Indian think tank says the US-China climate deal is neither historic nor ambitious, and would lead to dangerous temperature rises
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Alex Soros: Developed world’s greed for hardwood, palm oil, natural gas and beef is killing people on environmental frontiers
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Government accused of neglecting people defending their land and forests against mining and illegal logging
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Announcement on capping carbon emissions gets largely positive coverage in national media
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Damian Carrington's blog China-US carbon deal: A historic milestone in the global fight against climate change
Damian Carrington: After 20 years of tortuous negotiations the agreement struck by the US and China marks the start of a solution to global warming -
US, UK, Australia giving tax breaks to explore new reserves despite climate advice that fossil fuels should be left in the ground
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Climate Consensus - the 97% We must manage global warming risks by cutting carbon pollution, top scientists conclude
Dana Nuccitelli: The latest IPCC report details the immense risks posed by failing to mitigate global warming -
Claims that GCHQ snooped on two climate summits will be investigated, says UN secretary general
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Bibi van der Zee: What can one person do? The IPCC has made dire warnings, but says solutions are out there. Here are some simple steps we can all take
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CSIRO is working on reducing footprint of coal-fired power stations 30% to 50%, environment minister says, but IPCC report urges switch to cleaner power sources
Topics
- Climate change (Environment)
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Cop 20: UN climate change conference | Lima
- United Nations
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Peru
- Green politics
- Americas
- Energy
- Climate change (Science)
- Deforestation
- Fossil fuels
- Conservation
- China
- Asia Pacific
- Trees and forests
- Coal
- Amazon rainforest
- Protest
- Drought
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