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World Bank: 'extreme poverty' to fall below 10% world population first time
2015-10-04 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The number of people living in extreme poverty is likely to fall for the first time below 10% of the worlds population in 2015, the World Bank said on Sunday as it revised its benchmark for measuring the problem. This is the best story in the world today, said World Bank president Jim Yong Kim. These projections show us that we are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty. Extreme poverty has long been defined as living on or below $1.25 a day, but the World Banks...
Californiaa s huge solar projects causing energy poverty: Thomas Elias
2015-10-02 20:23:58| 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 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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Lack of electricity locks people in poverty low-carbon energy key
2015-10-02 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Steam billows from an energy plant in a stretch of Kenyas Great Rift Valley, about 180km north of the capital, Nairobi. But the white clouds rising from the tidy grid of pipes arent a sign of polluting greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. They are a signal that the country of more than 44 million, where some 65% of the population does not have access to electricity, is one giant step closer to delivering clean, reliable, renewable power to its people. The first phase of the...
VIDEO: Bill Gates: Meeting poverty goals 'won't be easy'
2015-09-27 06:20:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have spoken to the BBC's James Robbins about their hopes for beating poverty and malnutrition and improving childhood health.
Pop stars, world leaders rally end poverty
2015-09-26 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NGR Guardian: Some of the biggest names in music and politics from Beyonce to European prime ministers rallied Saturday in a concert aimed at mobilizing action to eradicate extreme poverty. Before thousands of people in New York`s Central Park and a far greater audience on television, the Global Citizen Festival sought to use entertainment to broaden support for new United Nations development goals. Beyonce, playing just her second concert this year, was the top attraction for many fans who obtained tickets...
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