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World's poorest will feel brunt of climate change, warns World Bank
2013-06-19 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Millions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned. Droughts, floods, heatwaves, sea-level rises and fiercer storms are likely to accompany increasing global warming and will cause severe hardship in areas that are already poor or were emerging from poverty, the bank said in a report. Food shortages will be among the first consequences within just two decades, along...
Struggling in Britain's poorest city
2013-05-31 01:23:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Living in the UK's poorest city
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Poorest nations show low-carbon will in climate talks
2013-04-29 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world's least developed countries are sending out signals that they are willing to put their economic development on a low-carbon path, but questions remain as to how this can be achieved without more financial and technology support from rich nations. Ahead of this year's first round of U.N. climate talks, which take place in Bonn next week, the new chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) bloc at the negotiations called for the group's 49 states to become the "deal makers". The Bonn...
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World Bank chief says global warming threatens the planet and the poorest
2013-04-02 10:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday said climate change was a "fundamental threat' to global economic development as he called for a major new push to reduce extreme poverty over the next 17 years. The bank is in the middle of an internal debate over how to reshape its role in a world where the major developing nations -- the core "customers' for its loans and programs -- have become increasingly middle class and where states caught in civil war pose an intractable development problem....
The Worlds Poorest Nations Say Yes to Emissions Cuts
2013-04-01 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: In what could be a far-reaching move, the world's poorest countries say they are now prepared to commit themselves to binding cuts in their emissions of greenhouse gases. The move has the potential to quicken the pace of the glacially-slow U.N. negotiations, which have for years been trying to agree an effective way to cut emissions in order to avoid runaway climate change. A Ugandan family. Uganda is one of the 49 countries comprising The Group of Least Developed Countries, a key partner in...
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