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India to pitch for 'right to grow' for poor nations during UN Climate Summit
2014-09-23 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: As world leaders assembled in US to give a political push to their efforts to deal with climate change, India is all set to make its 'right to grow' points at the New York Climate Summit, which was kicked off by the UN secretary-general Ban-Ki-moon on Tuesday. The country's environment minister Prakash Javadekar is there to express India's view points which revolve around the premise that the poor countries need to develop at this stage to eradicate poverty and rich nations should take the responsibility...
Ahead UN summit climate change, businesses press market-based solutions
2014-09-22 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Hundreds of corporations, insurance companies and pension funds are calling on world leaders gathering for a U.N. summit on climate change this week to attack the problem by making it more costly for businesses and ordinary people to pollute. The idea, long advocated by policymakers, economists and environmental activists, is that the world can't hope to slow the heating of the planet until its cost is incorporated into the everyday activities that contribute to it, such as using gas- or coal-generated...
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Countries, companies mobilize around carbon pricing ahead U.N. summit
2014-09-22 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The World Bank said Monday that 73 national and 11 regional governments and some 1,000 companies will join forces to push for policies setting a price on carbon emissions to encourage a shift to cleaner energy technologies. The announcement aims to build momentum for a high-profile UN summit on climate change on Tuesday that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hopes will mobilize governments and the private sector to make bold commitments to address climate change. The World Bank and United Nations...
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UN climate summit is high-profile, but some worlds most important leaders skip it
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: This week, the United Nations will host a huge and well-publicized one-day summit on climate change. The public is likely to be watching it closely: It comes just days after thousands of people in New York and around the world took to the streets, demanding more political action to help fight global warming. The climate summit's organizer, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, took part in the New York march, and for Tuesday's event, he is promising to bring together a some of the most powerful...
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Big Oils heirs join call for action as climate summit opens
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industrys first family, scions of a business empire that spawned companies called Exxon, Mobil, Amoco and Chevron. So it was no trivial matter when a group of Rockefeller heirs decided recently to begin severing financial ties to fossil fuels. There is a moral imperative to preserve a healthy planet, said Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, a great-great-granddaughter of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr. and a trustee of the largest charitable foundation...
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