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Global and national finance to tackle climate change
2014-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: THE developed countries have pledged to provide $100 billion each year, starting from 2020, to the developing countries to help them tackle climate change. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has set up a new Green Climate Fund (GCF) to handle the money. The GCF is a separate entity with its own Board (on which Bangladesh has a member on behalf of the Least Developed Countries Group) and its secretariat is based in Korea. These global funds are meant to support all...
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Misreading the signs won't keep climate change from happening
2014-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Houston Chronicle: The signs were all there. This is what jumps out at you in perusing postmortems of the two greatest surprise attacks in American history. In the days and weeks leading up to Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001, there were numerous clues that seem neon in hindsight, but which no one pursued. Or, as then-CIA Director George Tenet famously said of 9/11: "The system was blinking red." In response to each attack, exhaustive probes were launched to determine whose incompetence allowed the disaster...
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Obama Slams Climate Change Deniers During Commencement Speech
2014-06-20 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: President Barack Obama recently attended a commencement ceremony for the University of California, Irvine at the Angels Stadium in Anaheim, California. With the students, he mentioned the cold, hard reality that there are many politicians that deny climate change`s existence altogether. This compromises climate change mitigation efforts (which is most likely their goal). He mentioned that people didn`t deny the science behind space travel which was used to get to the moon, despite concerns that...
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Adopted Budget Change Memo
2014-06-20 18:24:28| PortlandOnline
Memo to Council regarding changes from the Proposed Budget PDF Document, 1,432kbCategory: FY 2014-15 Budget Documents
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Al Gore lauds renewable energy as cause for optimism in climate change fight
2014-06-20 10:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: There is surprising even shocking good news in the fight against climate change, former US vice-president and environmental campaigner Al Gore has said, while lauding recent breakthroughs in renewable energy technology. In an article written for Rolling Stone magazine, Gore optimistically proclaims, The forward journey for human civilisation will be difficult and dangerous, but it is now clear that we will ultimately prevail. He argues that the most devastating impacts of climate change...
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