UN science panel chief calls for more action to curb warming

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:38:57 +0000

Governments must do more and act swiftly to prevent global warming on a scale that would cause irreversible environmental damage and hit poor societies hard

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Protest greets ‘clean coal, oil’ pitch of Trump

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:23:39 +0000

Protest greets ‘clean coal, oil’ pitch of Trump

An unapologetic pitch by the Trump administration for the continued use of fossil fuels during the UN climate talks here was disrupted by mocking laughter and protest against US energy policy.

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200 countries in climate summit ‘welcome’ scientific report

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:21:04 +0000

200 countries in climate summit ‘welcome’ scientific report

A diplomatic standoff over a single word could set the stage for a bigger showdown during the second half of this year’s UN climate summit.

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Environmental activists demand rights at center of climate deal

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:22:04 +0000

CLIMATE ACTION Carrying signs calling for a stop to the use of coal and fossil fuels, as well as for greater climate action, protesters on Saturday march from Freedom Square to Spodek Arena, where the 24th Conference of the Parties is being held, in Katowice, Poland. —AFP

KATOWICE, Poland — The exclusion of human rights from the draft implementing guidelines of the Paris Agreement would put vulnerable sectors in more peril, rights experts and environmental campaigners have warned. As negotiators scrambled to wrap up the technical phase of the UN climate talks in its first week, civil society groups sounded the alarm […]

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Amid din of climate change talk, youths want their cries heard

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:19:58 +0000

Amid din of climate change talk, youths want their cries heard

At ground zero of the crucial United Nations climate talks, Greta Thunberg was easily a standout in this southern Polish city.

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