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Poorest countries 'left behind': Climate finance report

2014-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Half of nearly $8 billion in climate finance given to the developing world since 2003 went to just ten countries, and nations most at risk got the short end of the stick, a report said Sunday. The top recipients were Morocco, Mexico and Brazil, which each got more than $500 million (406 million euros) of the $7.6 billion total, according to an analysis of spending over the last decade in 135 countries. The report of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a UK think-tank, was released ahead of...

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Big oil must pay for climate change harm worlds poorest

2014-12-05 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RTCC: The residents of the Philippines region of Tacloban know what loss and damage from climate change looks like. This weekend, this exact same region is now bracing for super typhoon Hagupit, due to hit on Saturday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm. Hagupit comes almost exactly a year after Haiyans six metre storm surge flattened the area. Some 6,300 people of Tacloban paid with their lives and four million of their friends and relatives paid with their houses. Someone has to pay for climate...

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'Poorest of poor' test talking tech

2014-11-20 18:22:18| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A charity is to give away 2,000 Talking Book audio computers to some of Ghana's poorest communities after securing funds from Unicef and ARM.

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VIDEO: Bringing internet to India's poorest

2014-10-20 19:37:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

More than a billion Indians don't use the internet - and addressing that was the focus of a summit in Delhi where Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was the star attraction.

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