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Rich nations have moral duty to help island nations as climate change shifts weather patterns
2014-08-31 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Small island nations, particularly those in the Pacific, are already experiencing "extreme effects" from global warming, and rich nations including Australia have a "moral responsibility" to help them cope with future unavoidable threats, a senior World Bank executive said. Atoll nations including Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands are seeing shifting rainfall patterns, rising sea-levels and ocean acidification that are forcing islanders to move, said Rachel Kyte, the World Bank's special...
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Al Gore: economic case for coal divestment as strong moral one
2014-08-07 14:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The economic case for divesting from coal is growing and investors need to understand the risks associated with fossil fuel assets, as the world attempts to limit carbon emissions and global warming, according to Al Gore, former US vice president and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and David Blood, a senior partner at the investment firm. The divestment campaign against fossil fuels has been gathering momentum over the past year, with various universities, religious organisations...
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Maliki: My 'national and moral responsibility' to stay in power
2014-07-04 21:34:12| IT Services - Topix.net
Iraq's Prime Minister reiterated his staunch determination to remain in power for a third term Friday despite growing pressures to resign, according to Agence France Presse.
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WORLD MEAT CONGRESS: Animal Welfare to be New Moral Trade Barrier
2014-06-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - Animal welfare issues could become a new trade barrier following a landmark ruling by the World Trade Organisation, writes Chris Harris from the World Meat Congress in Beijing.
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ONR offers $7.5m to develop robots with moral reasoning ability
2014-05-16 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has offered a $7.5m grant to researchers from universities including Tufts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brown, Yale and Georgetown, to explore the development of robots with autonomous moral reasoning abili
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