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Canada: Govt announces $2.65B help developing countries fight climate change
2015-11-27 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Canada today promised $2.65 billion over the next five years to help developing countries fight climate change. The funding was announced on Friday in Malta, where Commonwealth leaders are meeting. "I'm here today not just to say Canada's back, but to show it," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the leaders before making the announcement. Under the previous climate deal signed in 2009 in Copenhagen, nations had agreed to commit $100 billion annually in fast-track financing by 2020. The...
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US apparel import countries - the losers
2015-11-27 16:31:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
US garment imports have not only reached record levels but, based on recent data, growth is accelerating. David Birnbaum has used this as an opportunity to take a snapshot of the global garment industry: the current position of exporting countries and more importantly the direction in which they are moving. This article, the third of three, looks at the losers.
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US apparel import countries - stuck in the middle
2015-11-27 16:24:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
US garment imports have not only reached record levels but, based on recent data, growth is accelerating. David Birnbaum has used this as an opportunity to take a snapshot of the global garment industry: the current position of exporting countries and more importantly the direction in which they are moving. This article, the second of three, looks at the less successful.
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Clean energy could fuel most countries by 2050, study shows
2015-11-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A new study claims to leave little room for doubt that the world can run 100 percent on renewable energy, and it even maps how individual countries should best make this transition--by mid-century. The main barriers to overhauling the global energy system "are social and political," said Mark Z. Jacobson, lead study author. "They aren't technical or economic," added Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. Jacobson and his Stanford colleagues published...
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Climate change is riskiest for these countries: S&P
2015-11-27 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: Climate change will worsen the hit to countries' ratings from severe natural catastrophes by one-fifth of a notch on average, according to simulations by S&P. But the hit could be even greater for vulnerable countries, such as Thailand, which could see a fall in the ratings by as much as two notches. "Our simulations indicate that climate change-related natural hazards can harm sovereign ratings," S&P credit analyst, Marko Mrsnik, said in a report on Thursday. "In terms of average impact of climate...
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