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Climate will push 2.9 million Mexicans into poverty
2014-04-20 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
El Universal: Climate change will push 2.9 million Mexicans into poverty over the next 15 years, said the World Bank. Climate change in Mexico is expected to push 2.9 million Mexicans into poverty over the next 15 years, said the World Bank. According to the study "The Poverty Impact of Climate Change in Mexico", annual temperatures are expected to rise between 0.29 and 2.46 degrees Celsius in 2030-2039 compared to the historic average from 1950 to 2000. It added that "the largest increases in temperature...
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Coal is no cure energy poverty
2014-04-10 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Coal is mired in deep social inequities, and the need of the hour is a decentralised, democratically-owned renewable energy deployment to fight energy poverty, writes Chaitanya Kumar. Coal does not alleviate poverty, it aggravates it. We of course rarely ask the poor what poverty means to them and what it will take to move them out of it. But Brendon Pearson, the chief executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, says we need coal-fired power to pull the world's poor out of energy poverty....
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Growth 'not enough' to end poverty
2014-04-10 23:07:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The World Bank urges countries to allocate more resources to the extreme poor because economic growth alone is not enough to end poverty.
California seniors have highest poverty rate, study finds
2014-03-25 04:49:41| Grocery - Topix.net
California's seniors have nation's highest poverty rate - 20% are below threshold due to state's high cost of living Top: Allen Stross returns to his home after lunch at the North Berkeley Senior Center and some grocery shopping.
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Fighting poverty with apps and surveys
2014-02-24 12:19:22| Food - Topix.net
Since helping to build HubSpot and tackling emotional wellbeing at Happier, Yoav Shapira's ambitions have grown: Now he wants to break down the digital divide and fight poverty at the global level.
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