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World Bank highlights climate-poverty link
2013-06-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens." In a report released Wednesday, the international lending institution warned that heat waves, rising seas, more severe storms and other impacts of climate change will trap millions of people in poverty. As a result, the Washington-based bank said it is stepping up support for efforts to curb climate change and to help the world adapt to it. "Urgent action is needed...
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WORLD: Four apparel brands in top-50 green rankings
2013-06-20 15:53:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Four apparel and retail brands are named in the top 50 rankings of Interbrand's latest Best Global Green Brands report.
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Climate change will reshape world 'in our lifetimes' - World Bank president
2013-06-20 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In fewer than 20 years, climate change impacts -- from flooded major cities to crashing food production -- threaten to fundamentally reshape the world economy and dramatically worsen human lives, the World Bank's president warned on Wednesday. But political will to act on climate change, particularly by major players such as China, is rapidly building, even as U.N.-led climate talks falter, Jim Yong Kim said at a Thomson Reuters discussion in London. After seeing widespread deaths from pollution...
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27/06/2013 - World FM Day Celebrations with Rising FMs, WiFM and London Region
2013-06-20 07:47:16| BIFM Events
You are invited to celebrate World FM Day with Rising FMs, WiFM and London Region.
Time to stop arguing about climate change, World Bank says
2013-06-20 07:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world should stop arguing about whether humans are causing climate change and start taking action to stop dangerous temperature rises, the president of the World Bank said on Wednesday. Jim Yong Kim said there was 97 to 98 percent agreement among scientists that global warming was real and caused by human activity. "If you disagree with the science of human-caused climate change you are not disagreeing that there is anthropogenic climate change. What you are disagreeing with is science...
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