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World Banks Kim Urged to Stop Financing Fossil-Fuel Projects
2013-04-03 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who yesterday vowed to boost the lenders contribution to easing the effects of climate change, was urged by non-profit organizations to stop financing fossil-fuel projects. In a letter sent to Kim today, a group of more than 50 organizations, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, welcomed his commitment to countering global warming and asked him to translate his pledge into action. The World Bank cannot meaningfully address climate change unless...
04.04.13 -- New RF Metrics For The Smartphone-Centered World
2013-04-03 09:42:30| wirelessdesignonline News Articles
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Norwich joins New York and London in going blue for World Autism Awareness Day
2013-04-03 09:41:17| Jewelry - Topix.net
Aviva light up Surrey Street s Sentinel House tower in blue to support World Autism Awareness Day PHOTO BY SIMON FINLAY Insurance giant Aviva decided to lend its support by lighting the tower of its Sentinel House offices, in Surrey Street.
CSU's Temple Grandin Recognized In Colorado General Assembly On World Autism Awareness Day
2013-04-02 18:25:41| Beef
Timed to World Autism Awareness Day on Tuesday, Temple Grandin of Colorado State University will be recognized on the floor of the Colorado House of Representatives and the Colorado Senate for using insights gained from her autism to design humane livestock-handling systems that have revolutionized the agricultural industry. read more
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World Bank chief says global warming threatens the planet and the poorest
2013-04-02 10:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday said climate change was a "fundamental threat' to global economic development as he called for a major new push to reduce extreme poverty over the next 17 years. The bank is in the middle of an internal debate over how to reshape its role in a world where the major developing nations -- the core "customers' for its loans and programs -- have become increasingly middle class and where states caught in civil war pose an intractable development problem....
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