Climate Summit Live

Official UN account, tweeting headline climate action announcements during the UN Climate Summit 23 September 2014

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Read #UNSG Ban Ki-moon's full wrap of the #Climate2014 Summit here: http://t.co/hGZWMWwUvt

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#UNSG Ban: 73 nat gvts, 11 regional gvts & over 1,000 businesses and investors signalled their support for a #PriceOnCarbon. #Climate2014

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#UNSG Ban: Leading commercial banks announced their plans to issue $30 billion of Green Bonds by 2015 #Climate2014

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#UNSG Ban Ki-moon "The insurance industry committed to double its green investments to $84 billion by the end of 2015."

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#UNSG Ban: Internat'l Dev. Finance Club on track to increase direct green/climate financing to $100 billion a year by 2015 #Climate2014

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#UNSG Ban Ki-moon "Countries strongly reaffirmed their support to meet the $100 billion dollar goal per annum by 2020." #Climate2014

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#UNSG Ban: $2.3 billion in pledges to GCF initial capitalization from six countries. 6 others committed to contribute in Nov #Climate2014

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#UNSG Ban: Gvts, biz, finance, multilateral dev banks and civil society intend to mobilise over $200 billion #climatefinance #Climate2014

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#UNSG: "European Union countries committed to a target of reducing emissions to 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030." #ClimateSummit

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#UNSG Ban: 24 leading global producers of palm oil & commodities traders committed to goal of zero net deforestation by 2020 #Climate2014

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#UNSG Ban: 40 countries, 30 cities and corporations launched commitment to double rate of global energy efficiency by 2030 #Climate2014

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#UNSG Ban closing #Climate2014:
" Many leaders advocated peaking of emissions before 2020 & #climateneutrality in 2nd half of the century"

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UN Secretay-General "Today has been a great day, a historic day. The Summit has delivered" #Climate2014

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Israel Environment Minister Amir Peretz: "We are shifting from coal to natural gas to produce clean electricity" #Climate2014

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Danish PM Hella Thorning-Schmidt says the #Climate2014 Summit shows us what can be done when we join forces and decide to act together

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This is very cool: our #Climate2014 #climateaction headlines are posted on @mashable, in a world map:
http://t.co/oToMDwniGy

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EU Climate Action Commissioner @CHedegaardEU says she has signed 5 joint declarations between EU & Africa on #climate #Climate2014

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Tanzania aims to halve its deforestation rate by 2020; the country is losing 400,000 ha of forest every year #Climate2014

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Headline: Fiji Minister says his country aiming at 60 to 80% #renewable energy target by 2030 - 2050 #Climate2014

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Min of Foreign Affairs of Qatar: "We are committed to reducing carbon emissions & and to use energy more efficiently" #Climate2014