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World Bank's forestry investments failing to meet conservation, rights, and anti-poverty goals

2013-01-30 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: The World Bank's investments in forestry over the past decade have failed to meet key objectives of reducing poverty, preserving forests, slowing climate change, or benefitting local communities, according to a report developed by its internal auditing body. The report, which was seen by The Guardian ahead of its public release, is highly critical of the bank's investments in 345 forestry projects between July 2001 and July 2011. The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), comprised of bank staff...

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EU needs more electric, hybrid cars to reach carbon goals: study

2013-01-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The European Union needs a leap in the number of electric and hybrid cars on the road over the next decade to succeed in cutting auto carbon emissions significantly by 2025, a British consulting firm found. The study by Ricardo-AEA will stoke already difficult debate over how to implement a 2020 vehicle emission standard of 95 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer (g/km). The Commission has said it will publish a document later this year on low carbon car standards beyond 2020. The consultancy,...

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Obama wins praise abroad for climate change goals

2013-01-22 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: President Barack Obama won praise abroad on Tuesday for his pledge to lead the fight against climate change, which has faltered as nations argue over who should foot the bill to lower carbon emissions. Two decades of summits and resolutions have not stopped mankind pumping growing quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, despite a wealth of evidence that it is causing more frequent and devastating droughts, storms and floods. Obama devoted a surprisingly long section of Monday's...

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Waterkeepers defend their lawsuit goals

2013-01-13 13:04:51| Food - Topix.net

While the effects on area farmers from a pollution lawsuit filed against a local chicken farmer were profound, they are also being felt by the environmental groups fighting for clean water on the Shore.

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