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Government pledges 50 fuel bill cut
2013-12-02 09:23:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The government has unveiled a package of measures which it says will cut energy bills by a total of 50 a year for the average household.
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Clegg pledges 250m for firm lending
2013-12-02 02:43:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The government pledges to put another 250m into the British Business Bank to help small and medium-sized firms benefit from the economic recovery.
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UN climate talks in deadlock over weak finance pledges
2013-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: UN negotiations to develop a global climate treaty in 2015 remain in stasis, with deep divisions between envoys over the levels of responsibility rich and poor countries need to take for global warming. The Warsaw summit was set to conclude on Friday, but ran on throughout the night, with reports of increasingly angry and frustrated discussions behind closed doors. Our expectations have been shattered, we are saddened, said Bangladeshs lead negotiator Quamrul Chowdhury. Speaking for the...
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Ban Ki-moon seeks bold climate pledges at 2014 summit; not a deadline
2013-11-21 09:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders on Thursday to make "bold pledges" for cuts in greenhouse gases by next September to guide a deal to fight climate change but acknowledged that many nations would be late. Ban also told Reuters that rich nations' promises at U.N. climate talks in Warsaw for new funds to help the poor tackle more heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels caused by global warming were "insufficient". Ban will host a one-day summit in New York on September 23,...
Ban Ki-moon says current climate pledges are insufficient to fight global warming
2013-11-20 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged governments to put forth more ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions, saying "current pledges are simply inadequate.' Speaking to a U.N. climate conference in Warsaw, Ban said countries need to "set the bar higher' as they negotiate a new global climate agreement that is supposed to be adopted in Paris in 2015. He asked countries to bring announcements on climate action to a special summit of world leaders in New York next September. "From...
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