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Mercy Ships: a floating hospital for the worlds poorest regions

2016-03-03 01:00:00| Ship Technology

Through the deployment of the worlds largest non-governmental hospital ship, global charity Mercy Ships has been serving some of the poorest nations since 1978. Since its inception, an army of volunteers and crew members have delivered more than $1b

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Agricultural policies in Africa could be harming the poorest

2016-02-09 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Agricultural policies aimed at alleviating poverty in Africa could be making things worse, according to research by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published this month in the journal World Development, the study finds that so-called 'green revolution' policies in Rwanda -- claimed by the government, international donors and organisations such as the International Monetary Fund to be successful for the economy and in alleviating poverty -- may be having very negative impacts on the poorest....

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Climate compensation schemes 'failing to reach poorest'

2016-01-27 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Frontier Post: Remote communities are not receiving the compensation they are entitled to from schemes designed to conserve tropical forests, a study suggests. People who depend on being able to harvest forest resources should receive payment under the schemes. But researchers say there is a "reality gap" between safeguards designed to help affected communities and who actually receives the compensation. The findings have been published online in Global Environment Change. "About 11% of global emissions...

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World's richest tenth produce half carbon emissions, poorest half one tenth: Oxfam

2015-12-02 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The richest tenth of the world's people produce half of all carbon emissions, while the poorest half - most threatened by droughts and super storms linked to climate change - produce only one tenth, Oxfam said on Wednesday. The richest 10 percent have, on average, carbon footprints 11 times that of the poorest 3.5 billion people on the planet, the campaign group said in a report to coincide with talks in Paris this month on a global deal to slow climate change. One of the biggest obstacles...

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Paris climate talks: Poorest countries are putting richest to shame

2015-12-02 11:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: There were never more global leaders under one roof than here in Paris at the global climate negotiations on Monday. And they all talked about leadership, about fixing climate change, about not leaving an uninhabitable planet for our children. Many spoke powerful words. The French president, François Hollande, rightly called coal, oil and gas the energies of the past (he forgot nuclear). And many talked about how renewables are the future. When Greenpeace started talking about the carbon...

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