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Developing Countries Lead Global Surge in Renewable Energy Capacity
2014-06-03 22:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The number of developing nations with policies supporting renewable energy has surged more than six-fold in just eight years, from 15 developing countries in 2005 to 95 early this year, according to a report from REN21, an international nonprofit renewable energy policy network. Those 95 developing nations today make up the vast majority of the 144 countries with renewable energy support policies and targets in place. The report credits such policies with driving global renewable energy capacity...
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GMO crops benefit environment, farmers, developing countries
2014-05-09 19:17:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: PG Economics Limited A recent review of biotech, or GM (GMO), crops shows that they offer major environmental benefits and allow farmers to grow more acres with fewer resources. In the 17 years of adoption, genetically modified crops delivered more environmentally friendly farming practices while providing clear improvements to farmer productivity, says Graham Brookes, co-author of the PG Economics report. read more
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USTR Discusses Efforts by Donors to Help Developing Countries Implement New WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement
2014-04-14 10:00:00| Expeditors Newsflash - Americas Edition
Expeditors Newsflash - Americas Edition
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Nearly One Billion People in Developing Countries Suffering from Obesity, Overweight: Report
2014-01-04 10:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: There are nearly a billion obese and overweight people in the developing world, according to a new report. According to the Future Diets report, which was recently released by the Overseas Development Institute, the number of obese/overweight adults in developing countries has tripled between 1980 and 2008. Also, some 200 million more people in developed nations are now obese than in the past. The rise in obesity in some countries has been tied to recent increase in income, BBC reported. About...
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Developing Countries Still Waiting for a Global Response to Climate Change
2013-12-12 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As president of the Council of Ministers of the African, Caribbean and Pacific states, Samoa`s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi had the perfect forum to voice his concerns about the effects climate change has had on his island nation. Malielegaoi, who chaired a two-day ministerial conference in Brussels, which ended Wednesday, Dec. 11, said that climate change was responsible for the frequency of natural disasters that have befallen Samoa in recent years. "This is the...
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