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World Banks Kim Urges Governments to Get Behind Carbon Market
2013-01-26 03:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Jim Yong Kim urged governments to help establish a global carbon market as the effects of climate change threaten the worlds poor countries. In a November report the World Bank said that the earth risks cataclysmic changes caused by extreme heat waves, rising seas and depleted food stocks as it heads toward global warming of 4 degrees Celsius this century. I would like to see governments get behind a carbon market, Kim said in an interview with Simon Kennedy of Bloomberg News...
WWF and World Bank host international REDD+ forum
2013-01-26 03:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WWF: Tropical forest experts from around the globe will convene on January 28th and 29th for a technical forum on REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation). The event, Building REDD+ Reference Levels, is being jointly hosted by the World Banks Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) and the global conservation organization WWF. It will focus on developing benchmarks against which many countries will measure success in reducing rates of deforestation and degradation. Participants...
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EU Clothing Import Prices: China v. Rest Of World in 3rd Quarter and Jan-Sep 2012 (Statistical Report)
2013-01-25 15:37:01| EmergingTextiles.com
China further plunged on EU's clothing market, in third quarter last year, especially if compared with other origins which took significant market shares, as reflected by our series of statistical tables comparing China with Rest of World (RoW) for each HS 4-digit clothing category.
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VIDEO: Social media 'making world better'
2013-01-25 12:47:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Former Facebook director Peter Thiel has told the BBC that he believes social media makes the world "a better place"
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Web founder: share information, improve the world
2013-01-25 12:32:33| CNET News.com
Tim Berners-Lee says to tell people where the potholes are, let the hospitals learn what's working, and pay the musicians directly. Also, speaking at Davos, he says accessing data is not a crime. [Read more]
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