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Latin American & Caribbean Nations Pledge Major Forest Restoration Efforts
2014-12-08 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Latin American and Caribbean countries yesterday launched Initiative 20x20, an effort to begin restoring 20 million hectares of degraded land -- an area larger than Uruguay -- by 2020. The initiative has secured $365 million in funds, its leaders announced, which will be used to restore forests, avoid deforestation, and improve the use of trees and livestock in agriculture -- practices known as agroforestry and silvopasture. This restoration is expected to provide extensive economic, social, and...
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Half of nearly $8b in global climate funds going to just 10 nations: Study
2014-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: More than half of the $7.6 billion in international funds given to the developing world to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and mitigate the effects of climate change has gone to just 10 nations, according to a study conducted by Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a London-based think tank. The study also found that countries most at risk from a warming climate had, over the last decade, received much smaller amounts than needed. The top recipients of finance were Morocco, Mexico and Brazil,...
Editorial: Snapshots from the nation's press
2014-12-08 05:30:46| Air Courier - Topix.net
It would seem to be common sense that a pregnant worker ought to be allowed light duty when advised by a doctor. After all, a law passed in 1978 was supposed to protect women from discrimination based on pregnancy or its related conditions.
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Editorial: Snapshots from the nation's press
2014-12-08 04:50:00| Trucking - Topix.net
It would seem to be common sense that a pregnant worker ought to be allowed light duty when advised by a doctor. After all, a law passed in 1978 was supposed to protect women from discrimination based on pregnancy or its related conditions.
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Philippines typhoon strikes as nations, activists discuss climate action in Peru
2014-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: While loved ones braced for the full impact of Typhoon Hagupit back home, Filipino activists in Lima urged climate negotiators Saturday to act with more urgency in drafting a global plan to limit such potentially life-threatening events. To us in the Philippines, we are not any more debating on whether or not the impacts of climate change are here, we have experienced it, Voltaire Alferez of the Aksyon Klima Pilipinas NGO grouping said on the sidelines of the talks. Year after year we are bombarded...
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