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Poor countries clamoring for aid slam into 'hard reality' in Warsaw
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: The top U.S. negotiator on climate change has effectively ruled out any new American pledge this year to a U.N. fund for helping poor countries cope with global warming, but vulnerable nations and human rights groups gathered for the climate summit here refuse to accept that. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also called climate finance "critical" in his first press briefing of the summit today. Pointing to Typhoon Haiyan, which he said puts "an anguished human face" on climate change, he...
Poor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on
2013-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Representatives of most of the world's poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015. The orchestrated move by the G77 and China bloc of 132 countries came during talks about "loss and damage" how countries should respond to climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to, such...
Poor countries in dark on climate finance
2013-11-14 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Greater transparency, accountability and a plan that sets out how countries will increase funding is essential. At the 2009 climate change conference in Copenhagen, key promises by developed countries to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in climate finance saved the event from total disaster. The specific commitments were: developed countries would provide 30 billion USD over the course of 2010-2012 as 'fast start' finance to help developing countries in the fight against climate change;...
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Damage to poor countries from climate change goes beyond money: Report
2013-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Most of the ancient ruins that Moses Ittu, 67, a resident of Lelu Island in the Federated State of Micronesia, visited and played around during his childhood have since disappeared into the ocean. In the last few decades, residents of the island have increasingly used the ancient stones to build walls to shield their homes and livelihoods from pounding waves and creeping sea water. "The sea keeps on rising, and the people need to protect themselves," Ittu told researchers who studied adaptation...
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'Poor countries care about the environment'
2013-10-16 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sir David Attenborough has said that people living in poorer countries are just as concerned about the environment as those in the developed world, and "exporting environmentalism" isn't necessarily an "uphill struggle". The veteran broadcaster said ideas about protecting the natural world were not unwelcome in less developed nations but added that wealthier countries should work to improve women's rights around the world to bring down birth rates and avoid overpopulation. Speaking at the Royal...
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