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Climate change mitigation must benefit poor, aid experts say
2014-04-14 07:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: International action to curb climate change must help poorer nations develop in a sustainable way that eases poverty and brings additional benefits such as better health and employment, aid and climate experts have said. The comments came in response to Sunday's publication of the latest instalment in a series of scientific assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This third report looked at options for reducing planet-warming emissions. It is possible and affordable...
IPCC scientists accused 'marginalising' poor nations
2014-04-12 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Climate scientists meeting in Berlin have been accused of "marginalising" the views of developing countries. They are preparing to release a key report on how the world must cut carbon emissions to stem dangerous warming. They are likely to say that if significant action isn't taken by 2030, temperatures will quickly break through the 2 degree C threshold. But a lead author told BBC News that this focus on cutting CO2 was ignoring the development needs of the poor. "The narrative, the...
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Overdrafts 'complex and poor value'
2014-04-10 14:10:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Many overdrafts are "complex and opaque", carry high charges and are not good value for money, a regulator concludes.
Climate change: poor will suffer most
2014-03-30 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Pensioners left on their own during a heatwave in industrialised countries. Single mothers in rural areas. Workers who spend most of their days outdoors. Slum dwellers in the megacities of the developing world. These are some of the vulnerable groups who will feel the brunt of climate change as its effects become more pronounced in the coming decades, according to a game-changing report from the UN's climate panel released on Monday. Climate change is occurring on all continents and in the oceans,...
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A tax on sugar would punish the poor for the 'sin' of enjoying the odd Mars bar
2014-03-06 07:30:59| Sugar Industry News
Remember that 1990 movie Crazy People, in which Dudley Moore and a bunch of mental patients take over an advertising firm? (Ah, the days before political correctness!) The lunatic asylum inhabited by Moore and his mates starts churning out brutally honest, sometimes bawdy adverts, free of the euphemisms and exaggerations PR men normally use to hawk their wares and campaigns. Their slogan for a Greek travel agency, for example, is: "Forget Paris. The French can be annoying. Come to Greece. We're nicer." Who could argue with that?
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