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World Bank releases new report climate change
2013-11-09 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: World Bank has released a new report -- On Thin Ice: How Cutting Pollution can Slow Warming and Save Lives. The report that talks about ways to mitigate the effects of climate change says fast action to cut common pollutants like soot (also known as black carbon) and methane will not only slow global warming, but save millions of lives. Reductions of these so-called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) would slow rapid melting in mountain regions with glaciers, like the Himalayas and the Arctic....
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World Bank warrior spearheading the fight against climate change
2013-11-06 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The World Bank can sometimes come across as a lumbering bureaucratic beast, so it's refreshing that the woman tasked with co-ordinating its climate change strategy is a straight-talking, no-nonsense campaigner with a warrior-like spirit. Rachel Kyte, who will next year move to a new position as group vice president and special envoy for climate change, talks here about the need for political leadership, why carbon pricing is essential, the psychology of effective communication and rising anger...
World Bank Sees Ways to Slow Arctic Melt in Kitchen, Coal Mines
2013-11-03 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Replacing cook stoves, curbing crop fires and capturing methane when extracting fossil fuels would help slow ice melting from the Arctic to the Himalayas and decrease risks of flooding, the World Bank said. Global warming is accelerating the thawing of glaciers, snow caps and permafrost, which will in turn release carbon dioxide and methane they held into the atmosphere, the bank said. Measures to fight pollution today can hold back these changes while improving the health of millions of people,...
VIDEO: World Bank warning over US shutdown
2013-10-13 16:24:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The World Bank is warning of grave consequences for the global economy if politicians in the United States fail to increase the government's borrowing limit by Thursday's deadline.
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World Bank warns on US debt crisis
2013-10-13 10:14:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, warns the US is just "days away from a very dangerous moment" because of the crisis over the borrowing limit.
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