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World's biggest development banks pledge scale up climate finance
2014-09-12 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Six of the world's largest development banks, including the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the World Bank, have underlined their commitment to delivering climate finance ahead of a major United Nations Summit due to be held in New York later this month. In a joint statement published yesterday, the African Development Bank (AfDB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as well as the EIB and World Bank,...
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UN members pledge to restore woodland and safeguard rainforests
2014-09-07 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Since the birth of agriculture thousands of years ago, humans have cut down the world's forests to grow food and expand their population. But now experts believe the end of our "war on trees" is in sight amid what some are calling a new "green revolution" finally breaking the causal link between growing numbers of people and falling numbers of trees. At a United Nations meeting later this month, countries are expected to pledge to restore between 10 and 15 million hectares of woodland and to...
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Labour in energy regulator pledge
2014-08-21 02:38:41| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Labour pledges to give the regulator Ofgem the power to remove energy firms' licences, if it wins the next election.
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Michigan officials pledge efforts to stop Lake Erie algaeMichigan...
2014-08-15 00:08:38| Waste Management - Topix.net
Michigan officials are promising further efforts to prevent the kind of toxic algae growth in Lake Erie that forced a recent shutdown of the public drinking water system in Toledo.
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US: Oxfam welcomes Kellogg CO2 pledge
2014-08-14 18:37:09| Agriculture - Topix.net
The cereal giant indicated it will set targets to cut "Scope 3" greenhouse gas emissions - which occur in entities not owned or controlled by the company - by 2015.
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