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Climate change will hit poor countries hardest, study shows
2013-09-27 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Low-income countries will remain on the frontline of human-induced climate change over the next century, experiencing gradual sea-level rises, stronger cyclones, warmer days and nights, more unpredictable rains, and larger and longer heatwaves, according to the most thorough assessment of the issue yet. The last major UN assessment, in 2007, predicted runaway temperature rises of 6C or more by the end of the century. That is now thought unlikely by scientists, but average land and sea temperatures...
Global Warming will Affect Poor Countries the Most: World Bank Says
2013-06-19 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The World Bank Group says that global warming will lead to a major food-crisis in the future. Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia are expected to be the worst-hit. Global warming is expected to cause major changes in climate- from causing drought in some regions to causing severe storms in others. Places such as Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City are considered to be "hot-spots" for the climate change as these places will be badly affected by sea-level rise and severe tropical storms. Low-lying countries...
Poor countries take on tax avoiders
2013-05-24 01:02:46| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Developing countries are trying to stop mining companies shifting billions of dollars in profits out of their countries, depriving them of much-needed tax revenue.
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News Summary: Vaccine project aids poor countries
2013-05-09 20:40:58| Biotech - Topix.net
TEAMWORK: Drugmakers Merck and GlaxoSmithKline are working with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to provide hugely discounted cervical cancer vaccines to millions of girls in poor countries.
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Heat: Hell on poor countries, no biggie for the rich
2013-01-10 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It is a truism that climate change is going to hit poor countries earlier and harder than it hits rich countries. A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research - "Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century" - helps illumnate one aspect of why it`s true. (It`s an older paper, but I just discovered it.) It`s worth mulling over the findings a bit. The research is quite clever, mainly in its simplicity. Instead of using complicated models built on all sorts of...