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Coalition calls for indigenous representation in REDD Partnership
2013-10-13 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Indigenous people should have a permanent representative in a partnership of 75 countries that aims to decrease the global carbon footprint through reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), a civil society coalition says. Asia- and Australia-based members of the REDD+ Safeguards Working Group (R-SWG), a North-South coalition of civil society and indigenous peoples organizations, issued the call for indigenous people to be granted full partner status in the REDD+ Partnership,...
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Coalition warned not to let politics stop takeover of Graincorp
2013-10-09 13:37:34| Agriculture - Topix.net
The Abbott Government is being warned not to let politics get in the way of the sale of Australia's largest agribusiness, GrainCorp, to a US conglomerate.
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United Kingdom: Fresh coalition battle looms over attempts to water down low carbon policies
2013-10-07 11:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Downing Street is reportedly putting pressure on ministers to dilute green energy commitments as the government looks to respond to calls to reduce energy bills. Senior Conservatives are thought to have been prompted into action by Ed Miliband's conference pledge to freeze energy bills for two years from 2015 should Labour win the next general election. According to reports in the Financial Times, the policies likely to be under the microscope as part of a new green policy review are the 1.3bn...
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Bloomberg, Paulson, Steyer Launch Coalition to Assess U.S. Economic Risk of Climate Change
2013-10-03 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Three very different men are uniting philanthropic efforts to form the Risky Business initiative, a new coalition that seeks to illustrate the impact of climate change on the U.S. economy. Risky Business is a joint venture between former hedge-fund manager turned activist Tom Steyer, New York Mayor Micheal Bloomberg and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson. Additional support was provided by the Skoll Global Threats Fund. In sectors across our economy--finance, health, agriculture,...
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Australia: Coalition urged raise emissions reduction target
2013-09-27 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government has been urged to raise its emissions reduction target in the wake of the IPCC report findings, with the Greens calling on Tony Abbott to "abandon his anti-science ideological view" towards climate change. Leaked drafts of the keynote UN report on climate change, which is released once every six years, show that global carbon emissions need to be cut by 10% a decade if a widely agreed limit of 2C of warming is to be met. Australia has a bipartisan target of a 5% emissions reduction...
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