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Global finance officials endorse World Bank target to end poverty
2013-04-20 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global finance officials on Saturday endorsed a new World Bank goal to end extreme global poverty by 2030 and emphasized that its focus should be on ensuring that the poorest benefit from strong growth and rising prosperity in developing nations. "For the first time in history we have committed to setting a target to end poverty," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said on Saturday following a meeting of the World Bank's Development Committee. "We are no longer dreaming of a world free of poverty;...
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Haiti: A place where poverty and darkness create more vulnerability to powerful storms
2013-04-19 15:37:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Little comes easy in this tiny coastal village where kids fill plastic buckets with charcoal to sell at market and women sweep bean pods into tidy mounds alongside pastel-painted mud and concrete houses. Litane Morece, who makes her living selling Chiclets gum and candies in front of the local school, burns a few sticks of wood to make her morning coffee. Showing off her steel stove, which she will place atop three large stones to cook fish and rice for that evening's dinner, Morece says charcoal...
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To Win Support for Keystone, Alberta Premier Pleads Poverty in D.C. Visit
2013-04-15 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The premier of Alberta, Canada, made another visit to Washington D.C. last week, pleading again for U.S. approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would carry Alberta's heavy crude to refineries on the Texas coast. Without expanded access to markets in the United States and beyond, Premier Alison Redford said, her province's oil sands crude is selling for discounted pricesand that is creating big problems for Alberta's budget, which relies heavily on oil royalties. "It has really had an...
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Extreme weather boosts poverty in Sri Lanka - report
2013-04-08 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Without fail, Somadasa Gamage has prayed for one thing every year before he plants his crops. "Rain,' says the 47-year-old vegetable farmer, who has farmed for three and a half decades in Sri Lanka's remote south eastern Tanamalvilla area, a dry area where rain can be frustratingly scarce. Last year, for almost six months, Gamage did not plant any crops because a severe drought had dried out the river from which he draws water. When the drought ended, Gamage was relieved -- but not for long....
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World Bank president: We can end extreme poverty by 2030
2013-04-05 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: In two weeks, economic policymakers from around the world will gather in Washington, D.C., for the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings. As has been the case for the past five years, there will be much talk of economic crisis and of strategies to restore confidence, kick start growth, and create jobs. There is growing evidence that we are on the right track, but this agenda still requires much more work. The meetings, though, also offer an occasion to look beyond the short term crisis-fighting measures....
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