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Climate fund receives $9.3bn pledge
2014-11-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Thirty nations meeting in Berlin have pledged $9.3bn (6bn) for a fund to help developing countries cut emissions and prepare for climate change. The Green Climate Fund was to have held at least $10bn by the end of 2014, so the pledge is just shy of the target. The South Korea-based fund aims to help nations invest in clean energy and green technology. It is also designed to help them build up defences against rising seas and worsening storms, floods and droughts. Rich nations previously...
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DOE to fund development of processes to aggregate purchases of alt-fuel and advanced vehicles; goal is cost reduction and accelerated adoption
2014-11-21 13:55:20| Green Car Congress
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Canada pledges $265m to Green Climate Fund
2014-11-21 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Canadian government has revealed it will give $265m to a UN fund aimed at helping the worlds poorest countries invest in clean energy technologies and cope with the effects of climate change. The announcement came late on Thursday after a Berlin conference where nearly $9.3 billion was pledged to the Green Climate Fund by 21 countries. Rated the worlds 11th largest economy by the World Bank in 2013, the offer is significantly lower than other major developed countries, but will be seen as...
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Prominent Ranches Step Up To Help Fund Program For Injured Cowboys
2014-11-20 21:51:13| Beef
A cowboy’s job is seldom easy—rewarding, fascinating, fulfilling, but seldom easy. And when a cowboy gets hurt, things become even tougher. That’s where the Working Ranch Cowboy Foundation (WRCF) steps in—to help working cowboys who are hurt and unable to work pay the bills until they can get back in the saddle. read more
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U.N. Green Fund gets $9.3 billion in pledges at Berlin conference
2014-11-20 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Donor nations pledged up to $9.3 billion on Thursday to a U.N. fund to help developing countries tackle climate change, but environmental campaigners said the funds fell short of what they want. The U.N. Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a major part of a plan agreed in 2009 whereby rich countries agreed to give $100 billion a year from both public and private sources from 2020 to help developing nations reduce carbon emissions and adapt to a changing global climate. The United Nations has set an...
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