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What the World Humanitarian Summit means for Climate Change
2016-05-27 11:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: I joined about 6000 other delegates from around the world this week for the first ever World Humanitarian Summit. While 350.org doesn't provide humanitarian aid, we're increasingly concerned with just how hard climate change is biting, and committed to supporting people-oriented responses to the impacts of climate change. With 2016 already carrying a 99 percent chance that it will be the hottest year on record and is close to breaching 1.5 degrees C of warming, we've now moved beyond the early...
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At worlds first humanitarian summit, leaders rich nations are no-shows
2016-05-25 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Heads of state from across the globe convened in Istanbul, Turkey, this week for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, a United Nations convention on how nations, NGOs, the private sector, and humanitarian groups can aid in the global crises currently affecting 125 million worldwide. More than 5,000 participants attended the summit - including the heads of 57 world nations and celebrities like Daniel Craig, Ashley Judd, and Forest Whitaker. Strangely absent, however, were the heads of the...
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Humanitarian Summit Aims to Mobilise Up to 30 Billion Dollars
2016-05-23 11:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The two-day World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), opening today May 23 in Istanbul, aims at mobilising between 20 and 30 billion dollars to face the on-gowing, worst-ever humanitarian crises, said Stephen O'Brien, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs andEmergency Relief Coordinator. "Let us not underestimate the gravity of what lies before us in these coming days: A once in a generation opportunity to set in motion an ambitious and far-reaching agenda to change the way that we alleviate,...
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Migration crisis: shipping within a humanitarian storm
2016-02-17 01:00:00| Ship Technology
As the migration crisis unfolding at the heart of Europe rages on, thousands of merchant ships are involved in search and rescue operations of people stranded at sea. But as the influx of refugees fleeing conflict-driven countries has caused severe d
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UN Fighting Losing Battle Global Humanitarian Crises
2016-01-27 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As the global refugee crises continues to worsen by the hour, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is quick to point out that when he took office in January 2007, the international appeal for funds for humanitarian emergencies was only about 4.0 billion dollars annually. "Now, we need more than 20 billion dollars," he said last week, underlining the tragic turn of events worldwide: over 60 million people either displaced internally or who have fled their home countries becoming refugees virtually...
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