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$1 trillion funding gap for poorest countries climate plans

2015-11-30 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: Climate plans by the worlds least developed nations are staked on more than US$1 trillion in finance from wealthy donor governments and private investors. Thats according to calculations by the International Institute for Environment and Development, which suggests the cost of adapting the economies to a warming planet is nearly five times higher than reported. As a two-week UN climate summit begins in Paris on Monday, it lays bare the gap between financial commitments and the costs of tackling...

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Climate change projects in poorest nations lose out in battle for funds

2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Urgent plans to help the world's poorest people become more resilient to extreme weather and rising seas are on hold because of a lack of cash in a U.N. climate fund set up for least developed countries, amid fierce competition for limited aid. Projects awaiting support include helping government officials in Bangladesh and Rwanda work out how to adapt to the growing impacts of climate change, and keeping health facilities safe from storms and tidal surges in Pacific Island nations. Other schemes...

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Utility discount program excludes Portland's poorest -- because they rent

2015-02-24 19:59:12| PortlandOnline

Brad Schmidt in The Oregonian, February 24, 2015

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Climate change pushes India's poorest children into slavery

2015-02-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Disasters resulting from climate change are pushing poor Indian families into poverty so deep that they are lured by traffickers into selling their children into bonded labour or prostitution, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Thursday. "I have witnessed many incidents where the children became the worst victims of environmental disasters caused by climate change and these kind of things," Satyarthi told Reuters TV on the sidelines of a conference on climate change. "It has resulted...

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