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IKEA hopes to light up refugee camps with new solar campaign
2014-02-05 09:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: IKEA plans to provide hundreds of solar lamps and fuel-efficient cooking stoves to refugee camps across the world, as part of a major new fundraising campaign. The Swedish furniture retailer launched the two-month campaign this week, pledging to donate EUR1 from the IKEA Foundation to the United Nations Refugee Agency for every LED light bulb the stores sell until 29 March. All funds raised will be used to buy solar lanterns, solar street lights, and other renewable energy technologies for...
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The refugee experience for the wealthy
2014-01-23 14:00:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The refugee experience for the wealthy
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Climate change refugee bid denied by New Zealand court
2013-11-26 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Pacific Island man's bid to become a climate change refugee suffered a blow on Tuesday after a New Zealand court refused to let him challenge a decision denying him asylum. Ioane Teitiota, 37, had said he was trying to escape rising seas and environmental risks caused by global warming in his home country of Kiribati. But New Zealand's High Court in Auckland ruled that his claim fell short of the legal criteria, such as fear of persecution or threats to his life. Justice John Priestly...
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Pacific Islander Ioane Teitiota fails bid be first climate change refugee
2013-11-26 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: An i-Kiribati man's bid to become the world's first climate change refugee has failed, with a New Zealand judge describing his case as "unconvincing". Lawyers for Ioane Teitiota, 37, argued that NZ immigration authorities should not deport him, even though his visa had expired, because rising seas were threatening his low-lying homeland of Kiribati in the central Pacific. The difficulties Mr Teitiota and his family would encounter in Kiribati - which consists of more than 30 coral atolls, most...
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Who will become the worlds first climate change refugee?
2013-11-17 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Ioane Teitiota was not seeking fame when he moved to New Zealand, but he is now getting it. He is the first person, so far as is known, to request asylum in a common-law country on the basis of being a climate change refugee. A native of Kiribati - a small island state in the South Pacific - Mr. Teitiota went to New Zealand several years ago as a legal guest worker, but he stayed on and his visa expired. He has now asked the New Zealand government to refrain from sending him and his family back...
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