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China, India & Brazil could derail UN climate deal says UK envoy
2014-01-30 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: China, India and Brazil are not sending clear signals on whether they will sign a UN-backed global emissions reduction deal next year, says the UKs top climate diplomat. Their reluctance to confirm their position within the UN negotiations could still derail the process, warned Sir David King, the UKs special representative for climate change, at a meeting in Parliament yesterday. There are no clear signs from those countries in negotiations that they are giving a green light, he said,...
World Bank climate change envoy Rachel Kyte on new mission
2014-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: On a wintry morning in Washington DC (the area is awaiting a fresh blast of Arctic air and a 40F plunge in temperatures) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group vice-president and special envoy for climate change, answers the door to her clapboard house located just outside the city limits. Kyte is enjoying some time at home but is preparing for another gruelling trip across the globe, culminating in back-to-back meetings in Davos. This month she took up her new vice-president post after World Bank president...
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EXCLUSIVE: N. Korea sending message it wants to release captive Kenneth Bae, former envoy says
2014-01-25 00:50:35| Footwear - Topix.net
Washington's former top negotiator with North Korea says the videotaped statements by captive American Kenneth Bae this week are a sign Pyongyang is looking for a way to release the detained pastor - and that the State Department is likely now mobilizing behind the scenes to seize the opportunity.
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Canada envoy at odds with climate allies on Keystone XL
2014-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: With his countrys foreign minister in tow, Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer walked the marble corridors of the U.S. Capitol yesterday pitching the prize his nation is seeking: the Keystone XL pipeline. It always makes more sense in our view to get energy from middle North American than the Middle East, Doer said after a session with Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, a Keystone supporter. Backing a project bitterly opposed by environmentalists is something of a shift for Doer....
CAMBODIA: UN envoy calls for higher minimum wages
2014-01-17 13:59:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The United Nations human rights envoy in Cambodia has called for a "proper mechanism" for setting minimum wages in the country.
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