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Failure of Paris climate summit would be catastrophic: pope

2015-11-26 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis on Thursday warned of a catastrophic outcome if vested interests blocked an agreement to tackle climate change at the UN talks opening in Paris next week. In a few days, an important meeting on climate change will be held in Paris It would be sad, and I dare say even catastrophic, were particular interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and projects, he said ahead of the summit which officially starts on...

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Prince Charles: Climate change failure is a factor behind Syrian crisis

2015-11-22 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Prince Charles has suggested the cause of conflict in Syria is climate change, in a wide-ranging interview. Drought and competition for increasingly scarce resources caused by manmade activities also played a role in the refugee crisis which has seen thousands of people leave the Middle East and cross Europe in recent months, the Prince of Wales said. The remarks were made in an interview with Sky News recorded before the latest wave of terror attacks in Paris, which will be broadcast on Monday....

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Banking and the failure of policing

2015-11-19 13:15:07| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The HBOS report reveals one big fact, when a bank ran out of control hardly anyone knew how to rein it back - and taxpayers ended up paying the price.

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