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BBC & ITV retain Fifa World Cup rights
2014-06-08 00:48:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC and ITV will broadcast the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cup finals in Russia and Qatar after signing a new rights deal.
Small islands, beacons for the rest of the world
2014-06-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Facing potential extinction under rising sea levels, many small island nations are embracing renewable energy and trying to green their economies. Although the least responsible for carbon emissions, small countries like Barbados are on the front lines of climate impacts. "Small island nations' voices have to be heard by the rest of the world," said Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "Many will undergo fundamental changes. Some will lose 60...
As world dithers on forest carbon rules, private investors go it alone
2014-06-07 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The villagers of Ulak Batu in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province may not be fully aware of how decisions made by business executives and governments far away affect their lives. But that is what has steered their shift from fisherfolk to plantation workers to budding forest guardians in recent years. According to Syarian, head of the village in Seruyan district, nearly 70 percent of local people decided to drop fishing seven years ago to work on an oil palm plantation. "They had to change...
China Coal Cap Could Strand Assets Around the World
2014-06-06 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Analysts believe that China--the world`s largest producer and consumer of coal, accounting for almost half of global consumption--could be close to making an abrupt and drastic change of track. A report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) says that when China`s demand for thermal coal (cheap coal burned in power stations to generate electricity) peaks, this will leave up to 40 percent of its coal-fired power generation...
Reducing Tropic Deforestation Could Cut World Emissions
2014-06-06 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Reducing deforestation rates in the tropics could significantly cut the world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a new study suggests. General consensus among scientists appears to be that man-made greenhouse gas emissions - including high levels of CO2 - are exacerbating climate change, harming the atmosphere and leading to significant warming in some parts of the world. Several leading nations have already acknowledged the threat these gases pose, with both China and the United States already...
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