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World Bank urged to stop Uzbekistan loans over cotton labour
2015-11-25 12:02:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Groups including those representing global apparel retailers and importers, are urging the World Bank to suspend loans to Uzbekistan over concerns about the use of forced labour in this autumn's cotton harvest.
World Bank Says Climate Change Can Impoverish 100 Million By 2030
2015-11-16 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: The global impact of climate change can force more than 100 million into living under the poverty line by 2030, a new report by the World Bank revealed. Experts explained that climate change threatens the goal of effectively eliminating poverty. Entitled Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty, the report called for stricter and tougher measures against climate change, days before the 21st Conference of the Parties or COP-21. "We will need to act fast because as climate impacts...
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World Bank: Global Warming Could Send Millions into Poverty by 2030
2015-11-09 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday. In a report, the bank said ending poverty - one of 17 new U.N. goals adopted in September - would be impossible if global warming and its effects on the poor were not accounted for in development efforts. But more ambitious plans to reduce climate-changing emissions - aimed at keeping global temperature...
World Bank says climate change could thrust 100 million deep poverty by 2030
2015-11-08 21:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday. Released just weeks ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris, the report highlighted how the impact of global warming is borne unevenly, with the world's poor woefully unprepared to deal with climate shocks such as rising seas or severe droughts. "They have fewer resources and receive less support...
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World Bank warns address climate change & poverty in tandem
2015-11-08 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world must pair efforts to stabilise climate change with programmes to eliminate poverty if vulnerable people are to be kept from falling back into hardship as rising temperatures wreak havoc on food security and livelihoods, a report has said. Climate change has led to crop failures, natural disasters, higher food prices and the spread of waterborne diseases, creating poverty and pushing people at risk into destitution, according to Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty,...
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