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To Fight Energy Poverty, Africa Embraces Both Renewable and Non-renewable Energy
2016-07-05 08:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bing: The African Development Bank (AfDB) has a soft spot for renewable energy in Africa, but its push for energy efficiency in a new ten-year plan embraces a controversial approach -- all sources of energy are acceptable. The New Deal on Energy for Africa, which runs from 2016 to 2025, is impartial to the source of energy or technology. The plan says it will let countries develop their resource strengths in renewable and non-renewable resources. Akinwumi Adesina, AfDB bank president told delegates...
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The Geography of Poverty
2016-06-30 10:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: World leaders agreed in 2000 to halve the number of people living in poverty by 2015. The poverty line was defined as the purchasing power parity (PPP) equivalent to a US dollar a day, later adjusted to the 2005 PPP equivalent of $1.25 daily in 2008 to the 2012 PPP equivalent of $1.90 daily in 2015. As the cost of living rise unevenly across the world, the World Bank periodically updates the global poverty line to reflect these changes. Nevertheless, there are many concerns about how the line was...
'Climate change, erosion pushing new generations to poverty along Ganga'
2016-06-28 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Money Life: Climate change and vicious river bank erosion in the post-Farakka Barrage period have blurred the lines between the rich and the poor and are pushing successive generations to grinding poverty along the lower stretches of the mighty Ganga in West Bengal. The frequent nature of erosion is induced by hydraulic control by the commissioning of the barrage in 1975 and Indo-Bangladesh water sharing treaty of 1977 and 1996, experts say. And the famed weaver's colony (taantis) in Shantipur block of West...
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Indias Unprecedented Plan To Bring Millions Out Of Poverty And Power Them With Clean Energy
2016-06-26 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Three years ago, Tarabhai Lakshmi Koli, 43, her construction worker husband, and their two grown sons, moved into their first real house in Siddapurwadi, a rural remote hamlet of 500 households in southern India, about 370 miles from Bangalore. But it lacked one important necessity: electricity. For Koli and many others who live in distant areas of India, reliable energy often has been an unattainable luxury. Living without power makes it difficult to cook, to work, to read and study, and to stay...
IMF warns the US over high poverty
2016-06-22 16:54:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The International Monetary Fund warns the US over its high poverty rate in its annual assessment of the economy.
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