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Pressure grows for global climate cash help hard-hit poor

2015-10-09 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: As finance ministers from 20 developing states agreed on Thursday to work on boosting funding for climate action, officials and experts called for more finance to protect the world's poor from the effects of global warming. Meeting for the first time in Lima, Peru, ministers from the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) group of countries - spanning Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific - said they expected rich governments to fulfill a pledge to mobilize $100 billion annually by 2020 from a range of sources,...

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Western towns hard-hit by climate change unite, target coal for funds

2015-05-04 04:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Denver Post: Ten Western mountain towns feeling the effects of climate change are launching a campaign that targets the coal industry, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars a year from companies to help communities adapt. The "Mountain Pact" towns in Colorado and neighboring states contend that, because coal is a major source of heat-trapping greenhouse gases linked to climate change, the industry should pay more to help deal with the impact. In a letter being sent this week to federal officials, lawmakers...

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