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Climate Accord Adopted: An Historic Moment for the Earth and the UN

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In a show of solidarity few environmental advocates would have predicted confidently a decade ago, 195 nations, facing the realization that global warming poses a potentially cataclysmic threat to the world, agreed on Saturday, Dec.12, to a timetable and national commitments for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the main cause of climate change. When … Read more Climate Accord Adopted: An Historic Moment for the Earth and the UN

Negotiations on the Climate Change Treaty Go Past Deadline

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What is the status of the negotiations among the nearly 200 country delegates attending the climate change conference in Paris right now, given that it was supposed to close Dec. 11 with a legally binding treaty to control global warming? Some outstanding issues remain to be debated, though none of them, it appears, will interfere … Read more Negotiations on the Climate Change Treaty Go Past Deadline

Climate Talks Produce a New Draft Accord and More Hope

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With barely two days left to reach an international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming, a new version of the draft agreement was released Wednesday in Paris. But outstanding disputes remain over how much nations will be prepared to reduce the use of fossil fuels, which emit the most carbon dioxide, … Read more Climate Talks Produce a New Draft Accord and More Hope

Now the Hard Part Begins on Global Climate Talks

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The second and supposedly final week of negotiations on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, amid now-measurable climate change, began on Monday at the COP21 in Paris with a draft global accord on the table. It is, however, littered with hundreds of bracketed words indicating that hard bargaining, and no doubt compromises, lie ahead. Especially vexing, to … Read more Now the Hard Part Begins on Global Climate Talks

Critical Climate Talks Open in Paris Amid Hopes and Fears

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Laurent Fabius, France's foreign minister, left, and Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general at the UN's conference on climate change.

Two weeks of the most crucial negotiations ever held on slowing the destructive warming of the earth in this century began in Paris on Nov. 30. The importance of the 21st Convention of Parties — COP21 — was evident in the attendance of more than 150 world leaders and other participants, a total representation of … Read more Critical Climate Talks Open in Paris Amid Hopes and Fears

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New PTF Report Calls for Expanded Support for Civil Society Programs to Achieve SDG16
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