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Can China's top-down approach fix its environmental crisis?
2015-06-04 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China has the largest and one of the most dynamic clean tech sectors in the world. The close to $90bn invested in clean tech last year puts it well ahead of both the EU and the US. For all the recent troubles of companies such as Hanergy, China has some of the worlds largest solar, wind and other green tech companies. As growth slows in western markets, they are increasingly looking for business at home. There is good reason for this too. China burns almost half the coal in the world, and accounts...
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Urgent Greek debt crisis talks held
2015-06-02 08:05:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The heads of both the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank have attended talks in Berlin in an attempt to reach a deal with Athens.
Drought-hit North Korea seen able to avoid food crisis
2015-05-31 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: SEOUL North Korea has updated farming methods and switched crops that could help soften the blow of drought and avert a disastrous food shortage, an aid worker and an analyst said on Sunday, after a U.N. official warned of another "huge food deficit". Impoverished North Korea, which suffered a deadly famine in the 1990s, has seen international food aid fall sharply because of its restrictions on humanitarian workers and reluctance to allow monitoring of food distribution. Food supplies had...
VIDEO: Bangkok hosts migrant crisis talks
2015-05-29 03:21:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Delegates from 17 nations are set to discuss the migrant crisis in South East Asia at a meeting in Bangkok on Friday.
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'Deal to end' Nigeria fuel crisis
2015-05-25 17:39:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Nigeria's fuel wholesalers say they have reached a deal with the government that should soon see the end of the crippling fuel crisis.
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