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Obamas foreign policy doctrine includes climate action
2014-05-28 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: On Wednesday, on a cloudy spring morning, the president laid out the "Obama doctrine" for foreign policy during a graduation address at West Point. The highly anticipated speech came just a day after Obama announced plans for drawing down U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In response to conservative complaints that he lacks a coherent policy vision, Obama did his classic triangulation shtick of laying out the dichotomy he transcends: interventionists on one hand think we should police the world, while...
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Trade Unions launch global climate action campaign
2014-05-27 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Trade unions representing workers around the world have become the latest group to throw their weight behind calls for an ambitious international climate treaty to be agreed at next year's UN-backed Paris Summit, with the launch of the new Unions4Climate campaign. More than 50 unions officially signed up to support the campaign at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) conference in Berlin last week, pledging to support calls for an ambitious new climate treaty to limit temperature...
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Pacific nations urge climate change action
2014-05-27 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Songs of the Pacific have been heard at Parliament House as islanders from countries likely to be most at threat from rising sea levels braved the Canberra winter to highlight the issue of climate change. In traditional dress, the group performed a cultural dance and spoke about their concerns. The delegates, from Kiribati, Tuvalu and Papua New Guinea, are meeting federal politicians and officials representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and Environment Minister Greg Hunt. They...
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Climate Action: Commission Sets Out Strategy To Curb CO2 Emissions From Trucks, Buses And Coaches
2014-05-27 07:28:10| pollutiononline Home Page
Trucks, buses and coaches would use less fuel and emit lower amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) under a strategy adopted by the European Commission recently
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Cocoa action strategy to support 300,000 farmers
2014-05-25 09:31:08| Food - Topix.net
The Hershey Company has announced it will be a founding member of CocoaAction, a strategy to co-ordinate cocoa sustainability efforts from the world's largest cocoa and chocolate companies.
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