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Poor Countries Push Rich Nations To Do More On Climate Change
2013-11-20 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Delegates to the U.N. climate change conference in Poland from many of the world's poorer nations are asking wealthier countries to pay compensation to the impoverished countries bearing the brunt of climate change. Melissa Block talks to Munjurul Hannan Khan, negotiator and spokesman for the Least Developed Countries Group about the tensions between rich and poor countries.
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Poor countries clamoring for aid slam into 'hard reality' in Warsaw
2013-11-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: The top U.S. negotiator on climate change has effectively ruled out any new American pledge this year to a U.N. fund for helping poor countries cope with global warming, but vulnerable nations and human rights groups gathered for the climate summit here refuse to accept that. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also called climate finance "critical" in his first press briefing of the summit today. Pointing to Typhoon Haiyan, which he said puts "an anguished human face" on climate change, he...
Poor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on
2013-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Representatives of most of the world's poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015. The orchestrated move by the G77 and China bloc of 132 countries came during talks about "loss and damage" how countries should respond to climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to, such...
Want a climate deal? Rich nations will have to pay up to help poor ones
2013-11-19 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its helpful to understand game theory if you want to know why its so difficult to reach an international deal to reduce climate emissions. Everyone will be better off if everyone does their part, but if one country gets away with doing nothing while the others reduce their emissions, that country would be the biggest winner of all, enjoying the benefits of averted catastrophe without any of the costs. That calculation could lead to a lot of countries bailing out. No one wants to be the sucker who...
Merck brings maternity program from poor nations to U.S. as deaths rise
2013-11-19 17:02:34| Biotech - Topix.net
Merck & Co on Tuesday said it is expanding its "Merck for Mothers" program, which aims to reduce pregnancy-related deaths from impoverished countries such as Senegal and Zambia, to the United States - a stark reminder of how far the country lags other wealthy nations on key measures of health.
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