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Climate Live: Finance key at Bangkok climate talks, MP calls for new ...

4 September 2012

By Tierney Smith

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Latest news ? Tuesday 4 September?

0830: Talks are continuing in Bangkok today, where finance continues to be a key issue of debate as NGOs and developing countries both raise concerns that wrapping up the LCA could stall progress this vitaltopic.

Adopt a Negotiator, who are following the negotiations on the ground,?give you an update on where the talks currently stand and some of the issues moving forward.

A new coalition of countries ? the Like Minded Group ? have also been getting some attention over the last few days as they become a formal negotiating group.

One British MP has called for a fresh, independent study into the economics of climate changed. MP Peter Lilley criticised the report produced six-years ago by economist Sir Nicholas Stern ? which warned that costs of inaction would outweigh those of acting ? saying it ?was not fit for purpose.?

New research from scientists at the universities of York, Glasgow and Leeds have found that Earth?s biodiversity generally increases as temperatures rise over the long term, but that rapid global warming is expected to have the opposite effect.

Tags: Bangkok 2012, Biodiversity, Climate Live, Economic, Stern Review, UNFCCC

Category: Breaking News

Source: http://www.rtcc.org/breaking-news/climate-live-finance-key-at-bangkok-climate-talks-mp-calls-for-new-climate-change-economics-review-and-rapid-warming-threatens-biodiversity/

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