Conference of Parties - #COP21
Live news and updates from the Conference of Parties - #COP21 The 2015 Paris Climate Conference
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12:09 PM - 04 Dec 2015- Reply
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A fairly simple choice between what is right and what is wrong - it is becoming clear for the world #COP21 #AlGore @NZYD12:21 PM - 04 Dec 2015
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12:21 PM - 04 Dec 2015
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Philippines #humanrights commission agrees to conduct inquiry into whether fossil fuel companies are causing human rights violations #cop2112:26 PM - 04 Dec 2015
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Announced at #LPAA event: Insurance industry doubles climate investment to $42bn https://t.co/2aRQmD4IWl #COP21 https://t.co/OqJQJlngZC
10:02 AM - 04 Dec 2015- Reply
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Residents of central Paris got a chilling reminder on Thursday of the challenge facing negotiators at the world climate summit on the city's outskirts: 80 tonnes of Greenland ice left to slowly melt on the cobbles in front of the Pantheon.The ice was scooped from a Greenland fjord and hauled to Paris as part of an installation by the visual artist Olafur Eliasson, best known for building waterfalls in New York City in 2008 and an artificial sky inside the Tate Modern gallery in London in 2003."I hope (this) work of art can actually bridge the gap between the data, the scientists, the politicians and heads of state and how normal people feel," Eliasson said on Thursday of the installation, dubbed Ice Watch. Read more. -
.@bankofengland's Mark Carney: "investors will take into account rules, regulations and societal pressure" #COP21 https://t.co/DIi8MZ3x55
12:44 PM - 04 Dec 2015- Reply
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.@bthmrsh asking what #Canada is doing to ensure rights of Indigenous Peoples are protected in #COP21 agreement https://t.co/ksUBUoRIEk
12:48 PM - 04 Dec 2015- Reply
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#IPCC chair: IPCC fifth assessment report underpins the deliberations here #COP21 https://t.co/w4G8diqHW8
12:47 PM - 04 Dec 2015- Reply
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"We're doing all that we can," says chief Canadian negotiator on keeping rights of indigenous peoples in #COP21 text. #cdnpoli #COP21Can12:47 PM - 04 Dec 2015
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Chief Bill Erasmus, at #COP21 w/ the #Indigenous Caucus, tells #Canada that Indigenous Peoples have right to negotiate for themselves.12:55 PM - 04 Dec 2015
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Former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg (C), delivers a speech as French President Francois Hollande (L) and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo listen during a summit on climat with local representatives at Paris town hall, as part of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21):
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1:59 PM - 04 Dec 2015
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A U.N. deal on climate change in Paris should fire the starting gun for a global push on sustainable development in 2016, with no time to lose in shifting to greener, more resilient economies, the head of the U.N. development agency said.Together with an international accord on reducing disaster risk in March and September's adoption of 17 new global goals, a comprehensive agenda will be in place for tackling global warming and eradicating poverty, said Helen Clark, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)."This an opportunity not to be missed," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview from New York. "The direction is very, very clear." Read more.
Plant for the Planet Foundation members speak together during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 3, 2015. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
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Adults dressed as babies from Avaaz, a global civic organization that promotes activism on issues such as climate change, wear bibs with the messages, "Where are the Grown Ups?" at a protest the behaviour by negotiators at the World Climate Change Conference 2015:
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G20 sets up task force on climate change company disclosures
A G20 task force will develop voluntary company disclosures for investors to compare risks to businesses from climate change, Financial Stability Board Chairman Mark Carney said on Friday.The FSB drafts and coordinates global financial regulation for the Group of 20 economies (G20), whose summit in Turkey last month asked the board to look at how the financial sector can take account of climate-related issues."Access to high quality financial information will allow market participants and policymakers to understand and better manage those risks, which are likely to grow with time," Carney said in a statement at the Paris climate conference on Friday.
In September, Carney, who is also governor of the Bank of England, said companies must be more open about their "climate change footprint" such as risks from rapid repricing assets like coal and other fossil-fuel reserves.
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.@Anne_Hidalgo : "Ce moment que nous vivons ici est historique" #Cities4Climate #COP21 https://t.co/4mrG29Za4V
5:41 PM - 04 Dec 2015- Reply
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New York pension fund launches $2 billion low-carbon index
ReutersNew York State’s pension fund launched a $2 billion low-carbon index which will exclude or reduce investment in high-emitting industries such as coal mining, the State Comptroller said on Friday. -
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At halfway, chance of U.N. climate deal higher, but ambition lower, than in 2009
ReutersNear the halfway mark of a U.N. climate change conference in Paris, hopes for a deal are far higher than at the last, failed summit in Copenhagen, even if the agreement on offer is far less ambitious this time. -
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#Solar power fuels hope on neglected #Lagos island https://t.co/5P7Sg7yXVM #renewables #Voices2Paris @UNDP #Nigeria https://t.co/MQs83olcLp
9:07 AM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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EU Commissioner @MAC_europa & @DieschbourgC speaking at #COP21 high-level plenary #streaming https://t.co/9UiXl3oAP2 https://t.co/8A8x7Wiroz
9:15 AM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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Poring over a Bangladeshi flood map as a London financial analyst 12 years ago, Mark Campanale had no idea the moment would spawn a financial concept powerful enough to rivet central bankers, anger oil moguls and fuel a grassroots movement to get investors to dump their fossil fuel holdings.Campanale's eureka moment has grown into a powerful - and vigorously contested - theory: that energy investors are sitting on a $2 trillion "carbon bubble" because vast amounts of coal, oil and gas companies' reserves will never be extracted if the world is to limit itself to a rise in global temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. Read more.
People look at rail tracks damaged by flood waters near the Balashi rail station in Gaibandha September 11, 2007. A second spell of flooding in less than a month has spread across parts of Bangladesh, forcing half a million from their homes and leaving thousands stranded. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman -
Ouverture Journée sur l'Energie avec le Président de l'Islande, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson #COP21 #LPAA #Reenergize https://t.co/YoPk3ibm3v9:22 AM - 07 Dec 2015
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Opening day on energy with the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson #COP21 #LPAA #Reenergize -
See the Daily Programme for Monday 7 December for #COP21 in Paris: https://t.co/mL4DpohgDD https://t.co/gamJdRqr0L
6:00 AM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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The Negotiation Update for 7 December is now available. View here: https://t.co/9Yjuhju8J5. #COP21 https://t.co/236IufTC8a
11:14 PM - 06 Dec 2015- Reply
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#Paris's Eiffel Tower is illuminated by human energy - it shines brighter with every tweet about climate & #COP21! https://t.co/yqqQZK3DSd
8:25 AM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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Ban Ki-moon's view from the podium. #COP21 #climatechange #photoop #behindthescenes https://t.co/BFHvhuyB4w
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Now in Paris: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at #COP21 high-level event
Livestream: https://t.co/eA49T6p8RJ https://t.co/UKmCB5M3t0
9:26 AM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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#COP21 President Fabius opens the High Level Segment announcing a "week of hope". We must, we can, we will. https://t.co/TAVkBNNsyn
9:39 AM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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Ban Ki-moon calls on all at #COP21 to cooperate, united by common purpose, to secure our common home & shared future https://t.co/N7Vr1DC9yB
9:48 AM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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Phase out fossil fuel subsidies & we have a new form of finance for renewable energy in Africa @NOIweala @IIED https://t.co/1Ow23LlBgP
10:12 AM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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Once in a while at the global climate talks in Paris, the sea of mostly dark business attire is broken up by flashes of orange, yellow and red feathers from the spectacular headdress of Brazilian campaigner Jose de Lima Kaxinawa.De Lima Kaxinawa belongs to the Kaxinawa, also known as the Huni Kuin, a tribe that lives in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and Peru and whose way of life is under threat from deforestation.He is also one of hundreds of Brazilian "party overflow members" at the climate talks, by far the biggest number of any country. Party overflow members wear purple stickers showing they can be asked to leave meetings if there is no space. Read more.
Brazilian Jose de Lima Kaxinawa, party overflow member, uses his cellphone during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 3, 2015. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen -
Entretien du président de la #COP21 @LaurentFabius avec @JohnKerry avant son point de presse https://t.co/jHOkodkeaH
12:34 PM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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Developed nations have mobilized some $80-$90 billion per year to help the poorest survive a warmer world, delegates at Paris climate talks said, but emerging countries dispute the figures and say a goal of $100 billion by 2020 is far from reach.The issue is central to U.N. talks in Paris, where nearly 200 nations are trying to forge a new pact on climate change.In October, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents rich nations, calculated that financial pledges from the developed world totaled $62 billion in 2014 towards an agreed U.N. goal to reach $100 billion by 2020.Since that report, new promises of funding have been made, including from Britain, France, Germany and Japan, the delegates said. Read more.
Hundreds of environmentalists arrange their bodies to form a message of hope and peace in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, December 6, 2015, as the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) continues at Le Bourget near the French capital. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier -
#COP21 High-level segment message: Remove roadblocks to #climateaction https://t.co/clxDKnor1U https://t.co/nVivwUN3wg
12:36 PM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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The Vermont senator's plan envisions 10 million new jobs in clean energy such as wind, solar and geothermal power. It would ban oil and gas lobbyists from working in the White House, end new fossil fuel lease sales on public lands, and would cut carbon emissions faster in coming decades than the goals set in President Barack Obama's clean power plan. Read more.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders gestures as he speaks during a campaign town hall meeting in Keene, New Hampshire December 5, 2015. REUTERS/Mary Schwalm -
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Sunday: indigenous flotilla paddles through Paris, following a powerful ceremony. #honortheearth @IENearth https://t.co/nXZoUtXAB6
1:37 PM - 07 Dec 2015- Reply
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Biden proposes summit with Putin after Russia calls U.S. 'adversary' over Ukraine
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden called on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to reduce tensions stirred by a Russian military build-up on Ukraine's border and proposed a summit of the estranged leaders to tackle a raft of disputes.