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New HQ but little cash for UN climate fund
2013-12-05 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN's new Green Climate Fund (GCF)opened its headquarters in South Korea on Wednesday, facing the key challenge of funding its mission to support low carbon projects around the world. The GCF was essentially created as a mechanism for transferring funds from developed to developing nations to help them counter the effects of climate change. But aside from start-up capital, its coffers are currently pretty bare and the importance of filling them as soon as possible was underlined at Wednesday's...
Raise water spending, get $1.0 trillion benefits: U.N
2013-12-04 06:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Sharply higher spending on water supplies, twinned with a crackdown on corruption, would yield more than a trillion dollars a year in economic, health and environmental benefits, a U.N.-backed study said on Wednesday. "Corruption is the elephant in the room" for improved water supplies, said Zafar Adeel, director of the U.N. University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health, which was a co-producer of the report. The study said investments of $840 billion to $1.8 trillion a year, or...
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2013-11-27 21:10:00| Latest beverage industry jobs - from just-drinks.com
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Cost of climate change adaptation could destabilise African countries, UN warns
2013-11-20 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: African countries are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and could struggle to feed and defend their people as temperatures rise, according to a major UN report. The cost of developing drought-resistant crops, providing early-warning systems for floods, droughts and fires, and building seawalls, dykes, and wave breaks will be vast, says the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) emissions gap report, launched this week at an African environment ministers' meeting in Warsaw. It will cost Africa...
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