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World leaders adopt UN goals to end poverty in 15 years
2015-09-25 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: World leaders on Friday pledged to end extreme poverty within 15 years, adopting an ambitious set of UN goals to be backed up by trillions of dollars in development spending. Pope Francis welcomed the new global agenda as an "important sign of hope" in his speech to the UN General Assembly and urged leaders to deliver on their promise to transform the world by 2030. Making his first address to the United Nations, the pontiff sounded a note of warning, saying even the most ambitious pledges...
More than trees why addressing poverty is critical to reforestation of the Amazon
2015-09-14 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: "Each year the Amazon rainforest is disappearing at the rate of an area equivalent to Belgium, Wales, ... so ran the headlines 20 years ago. Today, tropical deforestation is less of a headline grabber but the problem remains. Over the last 20 years, climate change has taken centre stage, although carbon sequestration of trees is widely recognised as a critical part of the solution. In Bolivia, the carbon sink of the Amazon continues to be deforested at an alarming rate, chiefly by large scale...
Water, climate, energy intertwined fight against poverty in Central America
2015-08-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Central America's toolbox to pull 23 million people - almost half of the population - out of poverty must include three indispensable tools: universal access to water, a sustainable power supply, and adaptation to climate change. "These are the minimum, basic, necessary preconditions for guaranteeing survival," Vctor Campos, assistant director of the Humboldt Centre, a leading Nicaraguan environmental think tank, told IPS. These three tools are especially important for agriculture, the engine...
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World Bank rejects energy industry notion coal can cure poverty
2015-07-30 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The World Bank said coal was no cure for global poverty on Wednesday, rejecting a main industry argument for building new fossil fuel projects in developing countries. In a rebuff to coal, oil and gas companies, Rachel Kyte, the World Bank climate change envoy, said continued use of coal was exacting a heavy cost on some of the worlds poorest countries, in local health impacts as well as climate change, which is imposing even graver consequences on the developing world. In general globally...
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Worsening poverty is hurting Mexican retailers
2015-07-29 10:09:58| Paper - Topix.net
Mexico City a Just as Mexico's consumer sector begins to emerge from the doldrums of the 2009 recession, a new government report suggests the recovery's foundation is on shaky ground. An additional 2 million Mexicans have become poor since 2012, pushing one poverty gauge to a 14-year high, Mexico's social policy evaluation council said.
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