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African forestry scheme build prosperity restoring landscape
2015-12-06 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than a dozen African countries have joined an unprecedented $1.6bn (1bn) initiative to boost development and fight climate change by restoring 100m hectares (247m acres) of forest across the continent over the next 15 years. The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative known as AFR100 was launched on Sunday at a Global Landscapes Forum meeting during the Paris climate change conference. It will be underpinned by a $1bn investment from the World Bank in 14 African countries...
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For Tony Abbott, it's full steam ahead on coal, 'the foundation of prosperity'
2015-07-17 14:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: If, as the environment movement contends, fossil fuels are the new tobacco, then Australia has cast itself as a sort of swaggering Marlboro man, puffing away contentedly as the rest of the world looks on quizzically. As other countries look to transition to low-carbon alternatives with one eye on crunch climate talks in Paris later this year, Australia is pushing ahead with an expansion in coal extraction that its conservative prime minister Tony Abbott insists is good for humanity. A series...
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NFU Calls TPA Passage Major Setback for Americas Workers, Family Farmers and Ranchers and Future Prosperity
2015-06-18 18:37:40| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (June 18, 2015) National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson said todays vote to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives was a major setback for Americas workers, family farmers and ranchers and this nations future prosperity. Unfortunately, instead
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Wynne says Canadas future prosperity depends emissions cuts
2015-05-19 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: With the greenest speech a Canadian politician has delivered in Washington in at least a decade, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne sought Tuesday to recast the bilateral conversation as something other than wrangling over Keystone XL. "You may be conditioned to expect a Canadian politician to come to Washington and talk mostly about the Keystone Pipeline," she said, referring to the contentious plan to funnel Alberta oil sands oil across the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. For years, Prime...
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Petrobras scandal buries Brazilian oil prosperity plan at sea
2015-04-23 12:29:15| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is struggling to contain the damage at the oil giant she oversaw and championed. Photo: Bloomberg BURIED off the coast of Brazil, beneath miles of seawater, rock and salt, lie vast oil reserves - at least 50 billion barrels - that were supposed to yield untold riches for this nation.
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