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Climate Continued from Page A1 point, that this is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet, is the fact that our nations share a sense of urgency about this challenge and a growing realization that it is within our power to do something about it,” said U.S. President Barack Obama, one of the first leaders to speak at the summit. The leaders gathered in a vast conference center at Le Bourget airfield. In all, 195 countries are part of the unwieldy negotiating process, with a variety of leadership styles and ideologies that has made consensus elusive in the past. Key issues, notably how to divide the global bill to pay for a shift to renewable energy, are still contentious. “Climate justice demands that the little carbon space we still have, developing countries should have enough room to grow,” said India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a key player because of his country’s size and its heavy dependence on coal. One difference this time may be the partnership between the United States and China, the two biggest carbon emitters, who between them account for almost 40 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Resources Institute thinktank. Once far apart on climate issues, they agreed in 2014 to jointly kick-start a transition away from fossil fuels,
each at its own speed and in its own way. The United States and China “have both determined that it is our responsibility to take action,” Obama said after meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit. “Tackling climate change is a shared mission for mankind,” Xi responded in his own remarks. Obama said the two countries would work together at the summit to achieve an agreement that moves toward a low-carbon global economy this century and “robust” financial support for developing countries adapting to climate change. Flying home to Rome on the papal plane after a visit to Africa, Pope Francis told journalists: “Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide.” Most scientists say failure to agree on strong measures in Paris would doom the world to ever-hotter average temperatures, deadlier storms, more frequent droughts and rising sea levels as polar ice caps melt. Facing such alarming projections, the leaders of nations responsible for about 90 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have come bearing pledges to reduce their national carbon output, through different measures at different rates. As the summit opened in Paris, the capitals of the world’s two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazard-
ous, choking smog, with Beijing on an “orange” pollution alert, the second-highest level. The deal will mark a momentous step in the often frustrating quest for global agreement, albeit one that on its own is not believed to be enough to prevent the Earth’s temperatures from rising past a damaging threshold. How and when nations should review their goals — and then set higher, more ambitious ones — is another issue to be resolved at the talks. “The Paris conference is not the finishing line but a new starting point,” Xi said. The gathering is being held in a somber city. Security has been tightened after Islamist militants killed 130 people on Nov. 13, and Hol-
lande said he could not separate “the fight with terrorism from the fight against global warming.” Leaders must face both challenges, leaving their children “a world freed of terror” as well as one “protected from catastrophes,” he said. On the eve of the summit, an estimated 785,000 people around the world joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history, telling world leaders there was “no Planet B” in the fight against global warming. Signaling their determination to resolve the most intractable points, senior negotiators sat down Sunday, a day earlier than planned, to begin their work. The last attempt to get a
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sive criminal histories in New York, according to court records in that state. Robert Hansley, 27, and Thomas Ferguson, 37, both of Brooklyn, New York, were arrested Friday night on charges of murder and elevated aggravated assault. Police took them into custody about 7 p.m. outside a Hammond Street apartment near Webster Avenue. They are being held at the Penobscot County Jail. The men are scheduled to make their first appearances before Superior Court Justice William Anderson at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center. They will be held without bail at the Penobscot County Jail until their attorneys request hearings on whether there are conditions under which they could be released. Ferguson has been convicted of attempted murder, robbery and lesser charges since 1995, according to a criminal history record search obtained from the New York State Unified Court System. He pleaded guilty to attempted murder in December 1995 and was sentenced the next month to a prison term of four to 12 years. Ferguson also pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced to 6½ to 13 years in prison. In 1999, Ferguson was sentenced to 1½ to three years after pleading guilty to promoting prison contraband. Bethany Haas, spokeswoman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, said Monday that she could not access more information about Ferguson’s convictions and the incidents that led to them because of their age. He was released on parole on June 18, 2010, from Cox-
Just in time for holiday shopping, an entire South Dakota ghost town, complete with its own watering hole, is on sale for $250,000, a real estate agent said Monday. The roughly 6-acre town of Swett includes a tavern, three-bedroom house and a former tire shop about 100 miles southeast of Rapid
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City, South Dakota. Realtor Stacie Montgomery said potential buyers from the United States and beyond have expressed interest since she first listed the property for sale in June 2014, though several written offers fell through and she has since dropped the price from $399,000 to $250,000. One of those offers included a call from a Russian movie production company that wanted to film there, she said. Swett’s population peaked at 40 residents in the 1940s
when it had a post office and grocery store. Swett’s most recent residents included town owner Lance Benson, his wife and dog, who put the community up for sale last year before losing it to a bank, Montgomery said. Benson acquired Swett in 1998, later gave it up in a divorce settlement and then reacquired the town in 2012. The tiny prairie domain also comes with a new town sign, courtesy of the state, to replace the previous one that was riddled with bullet holes.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (from left), French President Francois Hollande and Microsoft’s Bill Gates take part in the launch of Mission Innovation, a landmark commitment to dramatically accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation, during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 in Paris on Monday.
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A police officer secures tape to the front of the Center Street home Friday afternoon where a shooting took place early that morning. sackie Correctional Facility in Coxsackie, New York, according to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for the State of New York. Conditions of his parole were not immediately available Monday. Since 2011, Hansley has been convicted of drug and sex charges. He pleaded guilty in 2011 and 2012 in separate cases to criminal possession of marijuana. In each case, he was sentenced to time served. In February 2014, Hansley pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and was sentenced the next May to one year in prison. He is listed on the New York sex offender registry. Kennedy, who was born in Connecticut, has a criminal record in Maine that includes a felony burglary and misdemeanor convictions, according to his criminal history record obtained from the Maine State Bureau of Identification. He also was charged with possession of methamphetamine on Sept. 25 after being stopped by Brewer police for speeding, according to the Penobscot County district attorney’s office. He had not yet been indicted by the Penobscot County grand jury on the charge but was scheduled to appear at the Penobscot Judicial Center on Jan. 12. Maine records list Kennedy’s residence on Oct. 15 as an address on Parkway North in Brewer. Before that he lived in Bangor at an address on Vernon Street and two different addresses on Center Street but not at the address of the du-
global deal collapsed in chaos and acrimony in Copenhagen in 2009. Anxious to avoid a rerun of the Copenhagen disaster, major powers have tried this time to smooth some of the bumps in the way of an agreement before they arrive. The presidents, prime ministers and princes were making their cameo appearances at the outset of the conference rather than swooping in at the end. The old goal of seeking a legally binding international treaty, certain to be dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress, has been replaced by a system of national pledges to reduce emissions. Some are presented as best intentions, others as
measures legally enforced by domestic laws and regulations. If a signed deal now appears likely, so too is the prospect that it will not be enough to prevent the world’s average temperature from rising beyond 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels. That is widely viewed as a threshold for dangerous and potentially catastrophic changes in the planet’s climate system. Obama called for an “enduring framework for human progress,” one that would compel countries to steadily ramp up their carbon-cutting goals and openly track progress against them. The U.S.-China agreement has been a balm for the main source of tension that characterized previous talks, in which the developing world argued that countries which had grown rich by industrializing on fossil fuels should pay the cost of shifting all economies to a renewable energy future. The question of how richer nations can help cover the cost of switching to cleaner energy sources and offset climate-related damage must still be resolved. A handful of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates, have pledged to double the $10 billion they collectively spend on clean energy research and development in the next five years. “The climate bill has finally come due. Who will pay?” said Baron Waqa, president of the Pacific island nation Nauru.
plex where he died. Police originally went to 201 Center St. at 3:30 a.m. and were there throughout the day Friday. The evidence response team’s truck was outside the apartment Monday morning, but it was gone by the afternoon. Police cleared the scene and took down the crime scene tape, according to Cotton. The building consists of a pair of two-story apartments facing the street, with several other apartments in an addition on the back. Knocks on the doors of those apartments over the weekend and Monday went unanswered. City records show the duplex is owned by Jimmy Phan, who owns rental and business properties across the city. He purchased the building in 2002 from a Scarborough firm. Multiple attempts to reach Phan were unsuccessful. Neighbors over the weekend expressed relief that arrests had been made in the case. Kennedy’s homicide was the 19th in Maine this year, according to state police spokesman Stephen McCausland. It is the first homicide in Bangor since 2013, according to police.
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Climate Continued from Page A1 point, that this is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet, is the fact that our nations share a sense of urgency about this challenge and a growing realization that it is within our power to do something about it,” said U.S. President Barack Obama, one of the first leaders to speak at the summit. The leaders gathered in a vast conference center at Le Bourget airfield. In all, 195 countries are part of the unwieldy negotiating process, with a variety of leadership styles and ideologies that has made consensus elusive in the past. Key issues, notably how to divide the global bill to pay for a shift to renewable energy, are still contentious. “Climate justice demands that the little carbon space we still have, developing countries should have enough room to grow,” said India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a key player because of his country’s size and its heavy dependence on coal. One difference this time may be the partnership between the United States and China, the two biggest carbon emitters, who between them account for almost 40 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Resources Institute thinktank. Once far apart on climate issues, they agreed in 2014 to jointly kick-start a transition away from fossil fuels,
each at its own speed and in its own way. The United States and China “have both determined that it is our responsibility to take action,” Obama said after meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit. “Tackling climate change is a shared mission for mankind,” Xi responded in his own remarks. Obama said the two countries would work together at the summit to achieve an agreement that moves toward a low-carbon global economy this century and “robust” financial support for developing countries adapting to climate change. Flying home to Rome on the papal plane after a visit to Africa, Pope Francis told journalists: “Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide.” Most scientists say failure to agree on strong measures in Paris would doom the world to ever-hotter average temperatures, deadlier storms, more frequent droughts and rising sea levels as polar ice caps melt. Facing such alarming projections, the leaders of nations responsible for about 90 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have come bearing pledges to reduce their national carbon output, through different measures at different rates. As the summit opened in Paris, the capitals of the world’s two most populous nations, China and India, were blanketed in hazard-
ous, choking smog, with Beijing on an “orange” pollution alert, the second-highest level. The deal will mark a momentous step in the often frustrating quest for global agreement, albeit one that on its own is not believed to be enough to prevent the Earth’s temperatures from rising past a damaging threshold. How and when nations should review their goals — and then set higher, more ambitious ones — is another issue to be resolved at the talks. “The Paris conference is not the finishing line but a new starting point,” Xi said. The gathering is being held in a somber city. Security has been tightened after Islamist militants killed 130 people on Nov. 13, and Hol-
lande said he could not separate “the fight with terrorism from the fight against global warming.” Leaders must face both challenges, leaving their children “a world freed of terror” as well as one “protected from catastrophes,” he said. On the eve of the summit, an estimated 785,000 people around the world joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history, telling world leaders there was “no Planet B” in the fight against global warming. Signaling their determination to resolve the most intractable points, senior negotiators sat down Sunday, a day earlier than planned, to begin their work. The last attempt to get a
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sive criminal histories in New York, according to court records in that state. Robert Hansley, 27, and Thomas Ferguson, 37, both of Brooklyn, New York, were arrested Friday night on charges of murder and elevated aggravated assault. Police took them into custody about 7 p.m. outside a Hammond Street apartment near Webster Avenue. They are being held at the Penobscot County Jail. The men are scheduled to make their first appearances before Superior Court Justice William Anderson at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center. They will be held without bail at the Penobscot County Jail until their attorneys request hearings on whether there are conditions under which they could be released. Ferguson has been convicted of attempted murder, robbery and lesser charges since 1995, according to a criminal history record search obtained from the New York State Unified Court System. He pleaded guilty to attempted murder in December 1995 and was sentenced the next month to a prison term of four to 12 years. Ferguson also pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced to 6½ to 13 years in prison. In 1999, Ferguson was sentenced to 1½ to three years after pleading guilty to promoting prison contraband. Bethany Haas, spokeswoman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, said Monday that she could not access more information about Ferguson’s convictions and the incidents that led to them because of their age. He was released on parole on June 18, 2010, from Cox-
Just in time for holiday shopping, an entire South Dakota ghost town, complete with its own watering hole, is on sale for $250,000, a real estate agent said Monday. The roughly 6-acre town of Swett includes a tavern, three-bedroom house and a former tire shop about 100 miles southeast of Rapid
Correcting the record
The Bangor Daily News strives to be accurate and fair. To report an error, call 990-8175 or 800-432-7964.
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City, South Dakota. Realtor Stacie Montgomery said potential buyers from the United States and beyond have expressed interest since she first listed the property for sale in June 2014, though several written offers fell through and she has since dropped the price from $399,000 to $250,000. One of those offers included a call from a Russian movie production company that wanted to film there, she said. Swett’s population peaked at 40 residents in the 1940s
when it had a post office and grocery store. Swett’s most recent residents included town owner Lance Benson, his wife and dog, who put the community up for sale last year before losing it to a bank, Montgomery said. Benson acquired Swett in 1998, later gave it up in a divorce settlement and then reacquired the town in 2012. The tiny prairie domain also comes with a new town sign, courtesy of the state, to replace the previous one that was riddled with bullet holes.
Kevin Lamarque | reuTerS
U.S. President Barack Obama (from left), French President Francois Hollande and Microsoft’s Bill Gates take part in the launch of Mission Innovation, a landmark commitment to dramatically accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation, during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 in Paris on Monday.
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Terry farren | bDn
A police officer secures tape to the front of the Center Street home Friday afternoon where a shooting took place early that morning. sackie Correctional Facility in Coxsackie, New York, according to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for the State of New York. Conditions of his parole were not immediately available Monday. Since 2011, Hansley has been convicted of drug and sex charges. He pleaded guilty in 2011 and 2012 in separate cases to criminal possession of marijuana. In each case, he was sentenced to time served. In February 2014, Hansley pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and was sentenced the next May to one year in prison. He is listed on the New York sex offender registry. Kennedy, who was born in Connecticut, has a criminal record in Maine that includes a felony burglary and misdemeanor convictions, according to his criminal history record obtained from the Maine State Bureau of Identification. He also was charged with possession of methamphetamine on Sept. 25 after being stopped by Brewer police for speeding, according to the Penobscot County district attorney’s office. He had not yet been indicted by the Penobscot County grand jury on the charge but was scheduled to appear at the Penobscot Judicial Center on Jan. 12. Maine records list Kennedy’s residence on Oct. 15 as an address on Parkway North in Brewer. Before that he lived in Bangor at an address on Vernon Street and two different addresses on Center Street but not at the address of the du-
global deal collapsed in chaos and acrimony in Copenhagen in 2009. Anxious to avoid a rerun of the Copenhagen disaster, major powers have tried this time to smooth some of the bumps in the way of an agreement before they arrive. The presidents, prime ministers and princes were making their cameo appearances at the outset of the conference rather than swooping in at the end. The old goal of seeking a legally binding international treaty, certain to be dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress, has been replaced by a system of national pledges to reduce emissions. Some are presented as best intentions, others as
measures legally enforced by domestic laws and regulations. If a signed deal now appears likely, so too is the prospect that it will not be enough to prevent the world’s average temperature from rising beyond 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels. That is widely viewed as a threshold for dangerous and potentially catastrophic changes in the planet’s climate system. Obama called for an “enduring framework for human progress,” one that would compel countries to steadily ramp up their carbon-cutting goals and openly track progress against them. The U.S.-China agreement has been a balm for the main source of tension that characterized previous talks, in which the developing world argued that countries which had grown rich by industrializing on fossil fuels should pay the cost of shifting all economies to a renewable energy future. The question of how richer nations can help cover the cost of switching to cleaner energy sources and offset climate-related damage must still be resolved. A handful of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates, have pledged to double the $10 billion they collectively spend on clean energy research and development in the next five years. “The climate bill has finally come due. Who will pay?” said Baron Waqa, president of the Pacific island nation Nauru.
plex where he died. Police originally went to 201 Center St. at 3:30 a.m. and were there throughout the day Friday. The evidence response team’s truck was outside the apartment Monday morning, but it was gone by the afternoon. Police cleared the scene and took down the crime scene tape, according to Cotton. The building consists of a pair of two-story apartments facing the street, with several other apartments in an addition on the back. Knocks on the doors of those apartments over the weekend and Monday went unanswered. City records show the duplex is owned by Jimmy Phan, who owns rental and business properties across the city. He purchased the building in 2002 from a Scarborough firm. Multiple attempts to reach Phan were unsuccessful. Neighbors over the weekend expressed relief that arrests had been made in the case. Kennedy’s homicide was the 19th in Maine this year, according to state police spokesman Stephen McCausland. It is the first homicide in Bangor since 2013, according to police.
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