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Fossil fuel subsidies costing rich countries $112 per person
2013-11-07 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Average fossil fuel subsidies in the world's richest countries have reached $112 per person, draining national treasuries while undermining international efforts to avert dangerous climate change, according to an influential think tank. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) will today publish a new report arguing that fossil fuel subsidies are costing the 34 OECD countries between $55bn and $90bn a year, with the highest level of subsidies in Russia, the United States, Australia, Germany and...
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China asks rich nations to pay for action on climate change
2013-11-06 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Zee News: Developed nations should promise to inject funds of no less than the fast-start funding between 2013 and 2015, Xie Zhenhua, China's top climate change official and deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) told a media conference here Tuesday. Rich nations should also chart a clear course for meeting the funding pledge of USD 100 billion by 2020, invest in the Green Climate Fund as soon as possible and ensure that developing countries get concrete funding support, Xie...
China 'flexible' on climate talks but rich nation funding is key - top negotiator
2013-11-05 01:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China will be "flexible" in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday. Representatives of more than 190 nations gather in the Polish capital of Warsaw from Nov 11 to 22 to push towards a new global deal to cut climate-warming greenhouse gases that is set to take effect by 2020. Last month, the United States' chief climate...
A Confederacy of Scam ArtistsBy Nathaniel Rich
2013-10-30 22:05:08| Food - Topix.net
At the height of the early 1990s cultural wars, with William Bennett and Newt Gingrich railing against America's decline, T.C. Boyle published a novel about a scam artist of a generation earlier, cereal inventor Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.
A Confederacy of Scam ArtistsBy Nathaniel Rich
2013-10-30 21:45:58| Agriculture - Topix.net
At the height of the early 1990s cultural wars, with William Bennett and Newt Gingrich railing against America's decline, T.C. Boyle published a novel about a scam artist of a generation earlier, cereal inventor Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.
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