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Civil Society Wants Bigger Role in Green Climate Fund Planning
2013-03-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As the new board of the United Nations Green Climate Fund meets in Berlin this week, activist and watchdog groups here and around the world are expressing frustration over proposed rules they say are already significantly limiting civil society participation in the new initiative. The fund, created in 2010 under the auspices of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is eventually expected to channel some 100 billion dollars a year to help developing countries counter and adapt...
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Volkswagen Group planning to launch 6 or more plug-in hybrids from 2014; the role of the MQB in the Groups electrification plans
2013-03-11 12:30:14| Green Car Congress
In vote, resource-rich Greenland debates new global role
2013-03-10 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Kuupik Kleist's earliest memories are hunting whales with hand-thrown harpoons. Now, as Greenland's prime minister, he is feted by Chinese and European leaders as he opens up its untapped mineral resources. A verdict on this country's transformation comes on Tuesday, when this island - a quarter the size of the United States and with only 57,000 mostly Inuit inhabitants - holds a general election. There is only one polling station in the capital Nuuk, which has just two traffic lights and where...
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New light shed on role of climate in influenza transmission
2013-03-08 12:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Two types of environmental conditions -- cold-dry and humid-rainy -- are associated with seasonal influenza epidemics, according to an epidemiological study led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center. The paper, published in PLOS Pathogens, presents a simple climate-based model that maps influenza activity globally and accounts for the diverse range of seasonal patterns observed across temperate, subtropical and tropical regions. The findings could be...
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Deutsche Telekom's Obermann gets a new role
2013-03-07 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
German incumbent's chief executive will take top job at Ziggo next year.
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