Environment

New $500 million initiative to boost large scale climate action in developing countries

Four European countries - Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland - Monday announced a new $500 million initiative that will find new ways to create incentives aimed at large scale cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries to combat...

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Greenpeace expects big action from the big economies at the Climate Summit

As world leaders set out their response to climate change Monday in Paris, Greenpeace is calling on the leaders of the G7 and the BRICS countries to do more to transform their energy systems, and to switch to 100 percent clean renewable energy by 2050...

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Development Banks Vow to Mobilize Collective Resources to Confront Climate Change

The heads of the world’s largest development banks pledged Monday to work together to substantially increase climate investments and ensure that development programs going forward consider climate risks and opportunities.

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WWF statement on first day of UN climate talks in Paris

“An unprecedented 150 heads of state arrived in Paris Monday on a wave of historic momentum in the fight against climate change. This is a significant demonstration that climate change is at the top of the political agenda.

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