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Plan to save fashion production in NYC Garment District
2018-06-06 13:38:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A new package of support has been unveiled to try to preserve around 300,000 sq ft of apparel manufacturing space in Manhattan's historic Garment District - a move that will protect over 60 businesses.
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Australia: Abbott unveils plan to save Great Barrier Reef
2015-03-21 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia has submitted its long-term plan to arrest the decline of the Great Barrier Reef, with Tony Abbott stressing to the international community that the government is utterly committed to the reefs preservation. The Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan has been compiled to allay concerns from Unesco over the fading health of the reef, with the organisations world heritage committee set to meet in June to decide whether the reef is to be listed as in danger. The plan sets a number...
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Plan won't save Great Barrier Reef: Australian scientists
2014-10-28 02:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australian government plans to protect the Great Barrier Reef are inadequate, short-sighted and will not prevent its decline, the country's pre-eminent grouping of natural scientists said Tuesday. The draft plan, released for consultation last month, was supposed to allay concerns by the United Nations about the reef's health after UNESCO threatened to put it on the World Heritage "in danger" list. Environment Minister Greg Hunt has said the proposal reflects an effort to balance the priorities...
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Carbon Credit Plan Aims to Save Kenyan Trees and Elephantsand Help Villagers
2014-07-07 08:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The three-week-old carcass in Kenya's East Tsavo National Park is hardly identifiable as an elephant anymore. Gone are the hallmark tusks and expressive trunk; the elephant's entire face has been hacked off. The perpetrators used a machine gun, said Eric Sagwe, who leads a private antipoaching patrol in the park, pointing to bullet-scarred trees and the remains of two more elephants nearby. "For 30 years, this elephant was taken care of," he said. "Then someone comes and kills it in just a...
EPA's Climate Action Plan may save thousands of lives
2014-06-14 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: In Chicago, the weather has always been moody. But weather conditions are getting more sporadic no matter where travelers go. In a June 2 proposal, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the Climate Action Plan, with the approval of President Barack H. Obama, to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants, which would increase efficiency and lower pollutant rates. The Earths temperature on average has risen 1.4 degrees in Fahrenheit and will continue to rise 2- to 11.5 degrees...