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With Climate Change, a Bad Deal Gets Even Worse for the Global South
2013-03-05 20:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Nation: On the heels of 40,000 people taking to the streets of DC in the largest climate change mobilization in US history, the pressure on President Obama is building to take decisive action to curb carbon emissions. However, what's often missing from the US climate change movement are conversations about those people who are already most harmed by carbon emissions, and a historical understanding about how we got to this point. Along with Crystal Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree) and Ellen Dorsey, I was asked...
Budget deal cuts EU energy spending, promises climate focus
2013-02-08 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An EU budget haggled out in marathon talks on Friday cut deeply into a new transport and energy fund and sacrificed ambition to make farming greener, but broke ground by committing a fifth of spending to the climate. Spending for cross-border transport, energy and telecoms projects was one of the main victims of the focus on austerity. It was chopped to just under $40.14 billion, down from an initial proposal that had earmarked 50 billion. "This is at least a door opener for interconnecting...
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