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EU Institutions Urged to Include Report Findings in Final CAP Agreement
2013-03-28 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - Copa-Cogeca has urged EU institutions to ensure that findings on the reports by the EU Commission are fully reflected in the final agreement on the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) expected in June.
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Pacific nations urged to call for global shift to renewable energy
2013-03-26 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SPREP: A powerful challenge was made to the Small Island Developing States today at the Pacific Energy Summit in Auckland, New Zealand. Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change called upon the Pacific Island Small Island Developing States to use their voice to call for a faster transfer to renewable energy use across the globe. Ms. Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, addresses...
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VIDEO: Travel medical cover checks urged
2013-03-23 10:51:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Almost a third of people travelling to Europe from the UK do so without the card that entitles them to free state healthcare, the Association of British Insurers says.
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Nations urged to combine environmental and development goals
2013-03-21 13:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Degradation of the natural world is undermining efforts to reduce poverty, warn scientists, who say the only chance of achieving global prosperity is for all countries to combine poverty and environmental targets. World leaders should set six goals around universal clean energy, an end to water and food shortages, thriving lives and livelihoods, and healthy and productive ecosystems, they say. Prof David Griggs, director of the Monash Sustainability Institute in Australia, argues in an article...
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U.S. Urged to Reject New World Bank Focus on Large Infrastructure
2013-03-19 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A group of environmentalists, gender activists and international finance watchdogs are calling on the U.S. government to support calls for the World Bank to step back from a new programmatic focus on large-scale infrastructure, which critics say does little to help alleviate poverty. The call comes just ahead of a major funding meeting, to be held Mar. 20-21 in Paris, of donors to the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's fund for the world's poorest countries. In a background...
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