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Needed: Urgent Climate Change Action

By | Published: April 27, 2009
Prince Charles told Italian lawmakers, “The world is struggling with the consequences of the economic crisis in which we find ourselves (but) any of the difficulties we face today will be as nothing when the full horror of global warming unfolds.” At the same time, the Asian Development Bank released this report: Southeast Asia Faces [...]
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Energy Cooperatives Oppose Obama

By | Published: April 23, 2009
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) is opposed to the President’s Cap-And-Trade auction plan. Their position statement: Cooperatives Oppose Full Auction of Allowances Under Carbon Cap-and-Trade Under a “Cap and Trade” approach to reducing greenhouse gases, Congress must decide how to distribute emissions allowances. Congress can choose to freely allocate allowances to the regulated [...]
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Urban Crisis: Poverty and Climate Change

By | Published: April 22, 2009
by The World Bank We read Nicholas Stern’s blog post, “Low-Carbon Growth: The Only Sustainable Way to Overcome World Poverty,” with appreciation and enthusiasm. It is an insightful and important essay, illuminating the bedrock recognition on which effective 21st century development efforts must build: global climate change and poverty are inextricably interconnected. The best way [...]
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