Conference of Parties - #COP21
Live news and updates from the Conference of Parties - #COP21 The 2015 Paris Climate Conference






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Tempting transport for getting around at #COP21 www.instagram.com
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 4:10:06 PM -
Here's how the wind tree works at #COP21 www.instagram.com
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Horses policing the venue at #COP21 www.instagram.com
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Green investors take note: climate-focused mutual funds dabble in oilBOSTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Several of the world's biggest climate-focused mutual funds have stakes in traditional oil and gas companies mixed in with their solar, wind and clean tech holdings, a potential shock to green investors seeking to avoid fossil fuels altogether.
Six of the 20 biggest funds that mention "climate change" or "global warming" in their titles or marketing materials have oil and gas stocks, including two funds with investments in companies proposing new pipelines from Canada's carbon-intensive oil sands reserves, according to Reuters data.
"This really underscores that prospective investors should carefully read a fund's details and not just its label," said Meg Voorhes, head of research at the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Washington, D.C.
Investing in climate risk is an important theme as world leaders gather in Paris to hash out an agreement to rein in global warming. Climate funds are a relatively new tool for environmentally minded investors, and remain a tiny part of the $30 trillion-plus mutual fund universe.
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French President Francois Hollande (L) speaks with President of "Energies for Africa" organization Jean-Louis Borloo (C) as French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Segolene Royal (2ndL), French Secretary of State for Development and Francophony Annick Girardin (2ndR) and Cameroon's President Paul Biya (R) attend during "The Climate Challenge and African solutions" event:REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
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People are reading for the #fossiloftheday award #COP21 www.instagram.com
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 5:01:57 PM -
#fossiloftheday attracting plenty of attention at #COP21 www.instagram.com
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 5:03:14 PM -
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What is #FossiloftheDay ? Best let the organisers explain - twitter.com/danilic/status…by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 5:06:07 PM
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Le président @fhollande a visité les espaces Génération climat de la #COP21 https://t.co/nRo4Dja3wN #GoCOP21 https://t.co/86yBGgl7lo2:25 PM - 01 Dec 2015
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#fossiloftheday an event marked by the welcoming distribution of sweets www.instagram.com
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 5:07:32 PM -
Eager for the #FossiloftheDay at #COP21 ? Join us all NOW for the celebration! Hall 4! http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVJ9xJBWIAA_cNd.jpg
by Fossil of the Day via twitter retweeted by jemimah_knight 12/1/2015 5:08:32 PM -
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by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 5:12:28 PM
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by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 5:18:25 PM
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First to remind you who was the winner of all the #blame and #shame yesterday: #Belgium and #NewZealand http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVKA_PqWoAApl4A.jpg
by Fossil of the Day via twitter retweeted by jemimah_knight 12/1/2015 5:22:41 PM -
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 5:23:22 PM
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French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Segolene Royal says that without women, who make up civil society, there is no mobilization. She also says that the fight for the climate is also a fight for life and for peace - "It needs courage, it needs you."Sans les femmes, composantes de la société civile, il n'y a pas de mobilisation #COP21 https://t.co/oHEEjlSxMW2:18 PM - 01 Dec 2015
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Ce combat pour le climat est aussi un combat pour la vie et pour la paix. Il a besoin d'audace, besoin de vous #COP212:28 PM - 01 Dec 2015- Reply
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Hope spreads with a #rayoftheday instead of #fossiloftheday for The Climate Vulnerable Forum.… www.instagram.com
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/1/2015 5:31:21 PM -
A Brazilian NGO encourages @alisterdoyle to 'sexify the climate'. #COP21 www.instagram.com
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New French solar farm, Europe's biggest, cheaper than new nuclear
ReutersFrench energy group Neoen on Tuesday inaugurated a 300 megawatt (MW) solar farm, Europe's biggest, which will produce power at a price below that of new nuclear plants. -
Green investors take note: climate-focused mutual funds dabble in oil
ReutersSeveral of the world’s biggest climate-focused mutual funds have stakes in traditional oil and gas companies mixed in with their solar, wind and clean tech holdings, a potential shock to green investors seeking to avoid fossil fuels altogether. -
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Heads of state and big-name billionaires opened the Paris climate summit with a bang on Monday, promising billions of dollars to develop new green technology to solve a key sticking point of the negotiations: financing a low-carbon future for developing nations like India.Yet campaigners and experts warned that it will be hard to deploy any new technologies quickly in places where they are needed most unless negotiators at the two-week U.N. talks can work out a deal on how rich countries will help finance this.“I think the elephant in the room is still finance,” said Yvo de Boer, former head of the U.N. climate change secretariat.He and others were encouraged by Monday's announcements, which opened the taps for funding a wave of research in hopes of breakthroughs such as the artificial photosynthesis Bill Gates envisions to produce liquid hydrocarbons that challenge fossil fuels. France and India launched a plan for a trillion-dollar alliance to deliver solar energy to poor nations. Read more.(L-R) Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a meeting to launch the 'Mission Innovation: Accelerating the Clean Energy Revolution' on the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Ian Langsdon/Pool
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#COP21 day three in Paris. Today's theme is resilience - broadly - how nations may have to adapt… www.instagram.com
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/2/2015 9:10:08 AM -
France to spend billions of euros on African green projects
ReutersFrance plans to spend billions of euros in renewable energy and other environmental projects in its former west African colonies and across Africa over the next five years, President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday. -
Protecting forests must become the norm in supply chains: Prince Charles
ReutersBusiness leaders, environment ministers and even royalty urged companies to eschew raw materials that destroy forests, at the U.N. climate summit in Paris on Tuesday. -
It remains the case that many of the world's largest companies and their financial backers pay scant, by which I really mean no, attention to the deforestation footprint of their supply chains."
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The Lima-Paris Action Agenda tweeted this photo:Env Minister of France @RoyalSegolene joins the #LPAA session focus on resilience #COP21" https://t.co/bPtKGcvHpn9:36 AM - 02 Dec 2015
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"It's back to the nitty gritty"
With encouragement from 150 world leaders ringing in their ears, government negotiators in Paris sought on Tuesday to turn that rhetoric of unity into the text of a global deal to slow climate change.
But as the leaders departed Paris, it became apparent that disagreements which have blocked a deal over four years of lead-up negotiations remain unresolved.
Negotiators from the 195 countries with a place at the table resumed work on a draft text that still runs to more than 50 pages and is riddled with sticky issues to be settled.
The biggest obstacle is money: how to come up with the billions of dollars developing nations need to shift from fossil fuels and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
At Tuesday's technical talks, countries restated their well-known negotiating positions on the question with few hints of compromise.
China's delegate Su Wei "noted with concern" what he called a lack of commitment by the rich to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and help developing nations with new finance to tackle global warming.
And the group of the 48 least developed countries urged far tougher action to limit rising temperatures.
"It's back to the nitty gritty," said Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists, adding the opening day was "all good but that does not resolve the crunch issues."
Read full story - After leaders' rhetoric, climate negotiators start work on deal
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Folks are setting up for a session on 'Raising awareness on climate resilience through poetry and… www.instagram.com
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Heavy flooding causes chaos in southern India state
The heaviest rainfall in over a century has caused massive flooding across the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, driving thousands from their homes, shutting auto factories and paralysing the airport in the state capital Chennai.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blamed climate change for the torrential rains, injecting urgency into the debate at global climate talks in Paris and highlighting the vulnerability of tropical nations like India to extreme weather.
Chennai, India's fourth most populous city, is a major auto manufacturing and IT outsourcing hub. Ford Motor, Daimler, Hyundai and Nissan told workers to stay at home on Wednesday, while U.S. listed outsourcing firm Cognizant shut its 11 local offices.
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In India's dry regions, crowd-funding comes to a lake's rescue
YAVATMAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When residents of a city in one of India's most water-stressed regions banded together with authorities to de-silt their local reservoir, they were trying to secure the future of their drinking water supply.
But the activists discovered that the silt that clogs the Nilona reservoir, 750 km (470 miles) east of Mumbai in Maharashtra state, could also boost harvests in this drought-stricken area, where crop failures have driven thousands of farmers to suicide.
Their innovative model of crowd-fundeded, citizen-led action has become a model for what’s possible to protect water supplies in India, backers say.
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Kathy Jetnil Kijiner points out that the attendance at #COP21 is larger than the population of… www.instagram.com
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/2/2015 10:12:54 AM -
Roger Harrabin and Kathy Jetnil Kijiner with a documentary presentation about adaptation to climate change #COP21 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVNpB4MXAAAyBCk.jpg
by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/2/2015 10:16:13 AM -
Climate change adaptation - simple example: in areas now prone to flooding/heavy rain, people stop raising chickens and start raising ducks.by Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/2/2015 10:21:41 AM
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Documentary outlines community activities to avoid spread of malaria. Says climate change increases frequency of floods #COP21 #adaptaionby Jamillah Knowles via twitter 12/2/2015 10:25:57 AM
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Putin says Russia will follow up fast after Ukraine call with Biden
MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would send ideas to Washington within a week to follow up his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on the Ukraine crisis.
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