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UN urges more collaboration against climate change
2013-10-23 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: The international communities have to raise actions and ambitions to help the transformation to the green growth, which will require innovation, investment and collaboration by all partners, said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday in Copenhagen. "Achieving a clean energy transformation will need the combined efforts of governments, multilateral investment banks, private finance, civil society, the knowledge community and the private sector," Ban said in a keynote speech at the closing session...
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Former Vice President Al Gore urges students to make climate change their cause
2013-10-22 05:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Breeze: Declaring climate change to be the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced, former Vice President Al Gore on Monday exhorted nearly 1,000 high school students to make a generational commitment to save the planet. There is no challenge more important and we need your help, Gore said. While the speech was live, it was shown via a computer that projected the man who has made global warming a personal crusade tinged with an almost religious fervor onto a giant screen at the Warner Grand...
Film director urges Japan to improve nuclear power
2013-10-21 22:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Assocated Press: Dressed in white hazmat coveralls and carrying a dosimeter, documentary film director Robert Stone ventured into the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant's exclusion zone a year after a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in three reactors. As he encountered abandoned homes, shops and toppled cars in the scene in his new film "Pandora's Promise," Stone asked a traveling companion, "So, are you still pro-nuclear?" Stone, a British filmmaker based in New York, confronts viewers with...
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Welby urges energy firm 'generosity'
2013-10-20 04:58:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Archbishop of Canterbury has entered the debate about energy prices by urging firms to act with generosity, rather than just maximising profit.
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RBS urges staff to focus on recovery
2013-10-18 20:10:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Ross McEwan tells staff not to be distracted by speculation that the company may be split into "good" and "bad" divisions.
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