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Hinkley Point will 'hit the poorest hardest', say MPs

2017-11-22 01:00:46| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A report claims that the cost of the nuclear power station will weigh on poorer households.

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Free trade deals for 'poorest countries' to be maintained post-Brexit

2017-06-25 02:03:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The government commits to maintaining duty-free imports for 48 developing countries.

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Climate impact on crops will hit poorest

2016-09-27 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: More than half of all the worlds maize crops and around a third of all wheat and rice will be grown in regions vulnerable to climate change in the next 50 to 100 years, according to new research. At the same time, the worlds population will grow to 9 billion, and global food production will need to rise by from 60% to 110% by 2050 to keep up with demand. Such changes will inevitably hit the poorest nations hardest, and will put at hazard the planets remaining wilderness areas and the surviving...

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Mary Robinson: World's poorest pay the price for our emissions

2016-07-11 00:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Irish Examiner: UN envoy Mary Robinson has called for schoolchildren to be taught more about how their lives directly impact climate change. Mary Robinson talking to Senait Gebresadik, 8, who carried her two-year-old stepsister to a nutrition and health clinic in Tigray, Ethiopia. At the end of a trip to Ethiopia, which has suffered its most severe drought in half a century, the former president of Ireland said youngsters born today will live through a potentially existential crisis. The east African nation...

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Clean energy for poorest starved of investment: researchers

2016-06-17 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Only a tiny fraction of climate change funding is going into small-scale solar, biogas and other off-grid systems that may be the best way to get power to the world's poorest, researchers say. That problem, evident in new figures from the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), points to a challenge for the main international organization promoting access to clean energy for everyone on the planet, which this week adopted a strategy to achieve that goal earlier...

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