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This map shows why the Philippines is so vulnerable to climate change
2013-11-12 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Philippines is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change for two main reasons: geography and development. As my colleague Brad Plumer points out in an excellent piece on what the Philippines' experience with Typhoon Haiyan tells us about global efforts to adapt to climate change, a recent United Nations report identified the country as the third-most at-risk from climate change in the world, ranked behind the South Pacific island nations of Vanuatu and Tonga. But the Philippines...
Philippines' delegate calls out climate change deniers after Haiyan
2013-11-12 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Yesterday, the Filipino delegate to the ongoing climate summit, Naderev 'Yeb' Sao, dared climate change deniers to take a hard look at what's happening not just in the Philippines, but the whole world. Over the weekend, the Philippines was hit by what may have been the largest typhoon to ever make landfallTyphoon Haiyan. Reports are still coming in days later, but the death toll may rise to over 10,000 with whole cities simply swept away. "To anyone who continues to deny the reality that is...
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Philippines delegate refuses to eat until action on climate change 'madness'
2013-11-12 14:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: With his country grappling with the damage from "hell-storm" Haiyan, a Philippines official launched a hunger strike Tuesday to pressure a U.N. climate change conference for concrete steps to fight global warming. Naderev Sano, a member of the Philippines Climate Change Commission, said he was fasting "in solidarity with my countrymen who are now struggling for food back home" -- including his own brother, whom Sano said "has been gathering bodies of the dead with his own two hands." "What...
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Sony donates 15m to Philippines typhoon relief
2013-11-12 13:39:29| Electronics - Topix.net
"Sony Corporation today announced that Sony and its group companies will make a donation of approximately 15 million Japanese yen to help relief efforts in communities affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
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Philippines: Typhoon impacts a million farmers
2013-11-12 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Over one million farmers in the Philippines have been impacted by Typhoon Haiyan according to the UN. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says that hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice have been destroyed. Coconut plantations which are a big earner of foreign currency were said to be "completely flattened". Fishing communities have also be severely affected with the storm destroying boats and gear. The FAO says they have arrived at the figure of farmers affected by looking...
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