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Beach trip 'pipe dream' for poorest
2014-08-25 01:04:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
One in five families will be unable to afford a day trip to the seaside this August Bank Holiday, warns children's charity Barnardo's.
Worlds Poorest Nations Seek Presence in Post-2015 Agenda
2014-07-08 20:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The 48 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the world`s poor, want to be an integral part of the U.N.`s post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion. An Open-ended Working Group (OWG), which will continue its 13th round of negotiations next week, is expected to come up with a set of new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to replace the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which reach their deadline by the end of next year."The neo-liberal policies that...
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The House Condemns the World's Poorest to Dirty Coal
2014-06-19 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The FY2015 State Foreign Operations spending bill that emerged from the House on Tuesday demonstrates a clear misunderstanding of the role of international institutions in promoting U.S. interests and reflects the inconsistent priorities and hypocrisy of House Republicans. The bill cuts funding for the UN Human Rights Council and other worthy institutions, while simultaneously boosting spending to build coal-fired power plants overseas. Although trade-offs must be made when budgets are tight, steering...
Worlds Poorest Suffer From Radioactive Sickness as Areva Mines for Uranium
2014-01-24 22:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: More than 60 percent of Niger`s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity. Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium--one of the few resources the world`s poorest country still has. Areva has operated in northern Niger for four decades, according to Keith Slack, the global program manager of Oxfam America`s Extractive Industries team. The French government owns about 80 percent of the...
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Warsaw climate talks: The world's poorest cannot wait for 2015 deal
2013-11-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We are now at a tipping point that threatens to flip the world into a full blown climate emergency. As the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world endure the increasingly damaging impacts of a warming world, tired excuses and calls to delay action are no longer acceptable. Economics aside, this is a moral and ethical challenge of the highest order. If ministers leave the UN climate talks in Warsaw this week without a clearly defined roadmap to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon...
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