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Dear U.N., Why Is It Mainly A Man's World At The Climate Conference?
2015-12-10 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: ear United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, "Get Cross." "Break the silence." "When you witness violence against women and girls, do not sit back. Act." Those are your words, Mr. Ban Ki-moon. As the U.N. secretary general, you have been forward about promoting gender equality and denouncing violence against women. Yet this month, at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21), one of the biggest conferences in the world, where important decisions about climate change and our planet's future are...
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World cotton production estimates reduced for 2015/16
2015-12-10 11:15:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Global cotton production, consumption, and ending stock estimates for 2015/16 have been lowered, reflecting reductions in China, Pakistan, the US, India and Turkey.
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VIDEO: UN climate chief on her plans to save the world
2015-12-09 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Christiana Figueres has a big job. As the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, she is in Paris this week to guide 195 governments as they try to broker a new global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Figueres, whose father helped to install democracy in Costa Rica and served three terms as the country's president, tells Nature how she ended up working in environmental policy -- and what she hopes to get out of the ongoing climate talks in...
Connecting the Pacific to the world
2015-12-08 23:22:01| Telecom - Topix.net
Adolfo Montenegro, CEO of Bluesky, is confident he will do what others have failed to do, connect New Zealand to Hawaii by a submarine cable. Photo / Doug Sherring The man behind the latest project to further bolster data connectivity in New Zealand is confident the project will be a success thanks to his company's established position in Pacific Islands telecommunications.
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Two Texans among the most powerful people in the world
2015-12-08 00:17:22| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
They say everything is bigger in Texas, and that includes global influence. Two Texans were ranked among the world's most powerful people on Forbes annual list, and one of the business titans is no stranger to the list.
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