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Rio Olympics puts climate change front and centre
2016-08-07 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Rio de Janeiro is pitching this Olympics as the "green games", as Friday`s opening ceremony made clear. Ceremony director Fernando Meirelles -- best known for the film City of God -- used one of the biggest international platforms going to raise awareness about climate change. Each of the 11,000 competitors was given a seed to plant, which will create an athletes` forest in the Deodoro zone. "Climate change and the depletion of natural resources need our attention and the Olympic Opening...
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