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Like the Pope says, climate change in Seattle will impact the poor most
2015-06-27 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Globalist: Pope Francis is not the first to urge humanity to change its wasteful ways. But he may have given the harshest lecture last week, when he released an encyclical condemning policymakers weak responses to climate change problems, calling developed countries to cut carbon emissions, and linking climate change and social inequity. The deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet, the encyclical reads. Both everyday experience and scientific research...
Fossil fuel divestment alone will not halt climate change: Gates
2015-06-26 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Fossil fuel divestment would be ineffective on its own as a means of halting global warming, software billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates said Friday. Pulling money out of carbon-heavy industry must be coupled with large spending on alternative technologies to make any difference, said the Microsoft mogul who is under fire for his charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's reported $1.4-billion (1.3-billion-euro) investment in carbon-spewing companies like BP. The Financial Times reported...
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Combined Change Memo
2015-06-26 20:12:31| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 836kbCategory: FY 2015-16 Adopted Budget
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Approved Budget Change Memo
2015-06-26 19:50:52| PortlandOnline
Packet used by Council during consideration of changes to the Proposed Budget PDF Document, 766kbCategory: FY 2015-16 Approved Budget
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G7 Report: Climate Change Can Fuel Political Upheaval Like Civil Wars
2015-06-26 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Climate change isn't just coming, it's already here and the world's leading economic powers need to be ready to act before a simmering problem turns into a boiling crisis. That's the conclusion of a new report prepared for the Group of Seven nations, which at their latest summit have pledged to eliminate fossil fuels by the end of the century. But many of the effects of warming are already baked in and the worst effects are expected to be felt in the developing world, where they can compound...
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