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Climate change could push 100m into extreme poverty
2015-11-08 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Whether its flooding in Mumbai slums or drought decimating goat herds in the Sahel, poor people are hardest hit by the changing climate. Such impacts could push another 100 million into extreme poverty by 2030. So warns the World Bank in its latest report, calling for targeted support to help marginalised communities cope. When we look at poverty today, we see that climate-related shocks and stresses are already an obstacle to people escaping poverty, lead author Stephane Hallegatte told...
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Decent Work Crucial To Eliminating Poverty and Hunger
2015-11-03 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Over the eight years since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, the ranks of the unemployed have swollen to over 200 million worldwide. That number captures only a fraction of those who remain vulnerable and insecure, since more than four-fifths of the global workforce is outside the formal sector, with poor access to unemployment or other traditional social security benefits. In order to survive in the absence of social protection, unemployment is not an option for most poor people...
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2014 Poverty in Multnomah County Report
2015-10-13 01:13:22| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 6,637kbCategory: October
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Solar sheds lights on energy poverty
2015-10-06 10:08:47| Energy - Topix.net
When ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made their way onto a hot, dry alkali flat just west of the Interstate 15 freeway between Barstow and Las Vegas in late 2010, all anyone knew for sure was that they were opening an era of giantism in solar electricity in California. What no one could predict was that they were also putting a stamp of approval on the spread of energy poverty in many parts of this state.
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World Bank: Extreme poverty 'to fall below 10%'
2015-10-04 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty, up from $1.25. It forecasts the proportion of the world's population in this category to fall from 12.8% in 2012 to 9.6%. However, it said the "growing concentration of global poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is of great concern". Although the share of people in poverty...
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