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centre-left backs formal coalition talks

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Germany's centre-left Social Democrats voted Sunday to begin formal coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, bringing Europe's top economy a step closer to a new government after months of deadlock. At a special party congress in the western city of Bonn, 372 out of 642 delegates (56 percent) backed SPD chief Martin Schulz's appeal to approve a preliminary coalition deal painstakinglyRead more

Germany's SPD backs formal coalition talks with Merkel

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Germany's centre-left Social Democrats voted Sunday to begin formal coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, bringing Europe's top economy a step closer to a new government after months of deadlock. A total of 362 party delegates out of 642 voted at a special congress in Bonn to back a preliminary coalition deal painstakingly hammered out between the SPD andRead more

UN climate envoys agree to 2018 stocktake of planet-warming emissions

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UN negotiators agreed at climate talks Saturday to take stock in 2018 of country efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions as part of a pact -- rejected only by Washington -- to limit global warming. Closing two weeks of talks in Bonn, some 12 hours into extra time, envoys gave the green light in Bonn for what they termed theRead more

UN climate envoys agree to 2018 stocktake of planet-warming emissions

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paObama climate envoy slams Trump's rejection

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The Obama-era official who helped deliver the 2015 Paris Agreement, lashed out Thursday at the Donald Trump administration's "wrongheaded" decision to abandon the first-ever pact committing all countries to limiting climate change. Todd Stern, who was Barack Obama's special envoy for climate change, said he was "annoyed, frustrated" by the new president's rejection of a deal that took the world'sRead more

Environment Minister Meets Executive Director of Green Climate Fund

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The Minister of Environment, Natural Resources and Rural Development, Dr. Hassan Hilal, met on the side line of the United Nation's meeting on the climate change, Mr. Howard Bamsey the Executive Director of the Fund's Secretariat, affiliated to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, to deliberate on the financing of the environment projects in the Sudan, where the fundRead more

Battle lines drawn over coal at UN climate talks

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A score of mostly wealthy nations banded together at UN climate talks Thursday to swear off coal-fired power, a key driver of global warming and air pollution. To cap global warming at "well under" two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) -- the planet-saving target in the 196-nation Paris Agreement -- coal must be phased out in developed countries by 2030,Read more

Europe must cover US share of UN climate science panel budget

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Europe must cover the US share of the budget for the UN's IPCC climate science panel, French President Emmanuel Macron said at UN climate talks in Bonn on Wednesday. Much of the global effort to row back climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions was threatened, he said, by the Trump administration's decision to stop funding for intergovernmental climate bodies. "I propose thatRead more

Fossil fuel investment spells 'unsustainable future'

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Continued investment in fossil fuels would doom mankind to an "unsustainable future", UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday, and warned time was running out to prevent calamitous climate change caused by atmosphere-fouling emissions. Continuing to pump money into coal, oil and gas does not make financial sense, and markets must be "re-oriented away from the counter-productive," he told UN climate envoysRead more