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Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines urges action to resolve climate talks deadlock
2013-11-11 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Philippines government has firmly connected the super typhoon Haiyan with climate change, and urged governments meeting in Poland on Monday to take emergency action to resolve the deadlocked climate talks. "We cannot sit and stay helpless staring at this international climate stalemate. It is now time to take action. We need an emergency climate pathway," said Seb Yano, head of the government's delegation to the UN climate talks, in an article for the Guardian, in which he challenged climate...
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Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines Urges Action to Resolve Climate Talks Deadlock in Aftermath of Storm
2013-11-11 10:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: The Philippines government has firmly connected the super typhoon Haiyan with climate change, and urged governments meeting in Poland on Monday to take emergency action to resolve the deadlocked climate talks. "We cannot sit and stay helpless staring at this international climate stalemate. It is now time to take action. We need an emergency climate pathway," said Yeb Sano, head of the government's delegation to the UN climate talks, in an article for the Guardian, in which he challenged climate...
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Vilsack Urges Passage of New Farm Bill
2013-11-08 16:09:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says today’s release of Rural America at a Glance, 2013 Edition by USDA’s Economic Research Service points out the need for passage of a new farm bill. “Today's annual report by USDA's Economic Research Service - Rural America at a Glance, 2013 Edition - highlights the critical need for a new Food, Farm and Jobs Bill that will help to reverse troubling demographic and economic patterns in rural America. read more
China urges cooperation ahead of climate talks
2013-11-06 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: China's top climate change negotiator has urged richer nations to help developing countries cut their emissions, as they had pledged to do in 2009. Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of China's National Development and Reform Commission, was referring to the 2009 U.N. summit in Copenhagen in which developed nations pledged $100 billion a year by 2020 to help fight climate change. Although a specific date for donor pledges to begin has still not been decided, developing countries have already contributed...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Union urges government to buy local apparel
2013-11-06 15:01:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) is urging the government to buy more locally-made apparel and textile goods.
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