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So Fresh and So Clean
More than $6 billion pledged to boost clean-tech in developing countries |
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26 Sep 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:01 PM on 26 Sep 2008 Industrialized countries have promised to put more than $6.1 billion in the World Bank's Climate Investment Funds, which aim to boost clean technologies and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in developing countries. On Friday, the United States pledged $2 billion over three years; Britain will chip in $1.47 billion and Japan $1.2 billion, with contributions from Australi ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, climate change mitigation, France, Germany, investing, Japan, Netherlands, news, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, tech, United Kingdom, United States, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Fiddler on the Hot Tin Roof
Climate scientists grow more concerned as Rome burns, Nero fiddles |
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10 May 2005 |
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| Fiddler on the Hot Tin Roof Climate scientists grow more concerned as Rome burns, Nero fiddles In most fields of science, lay opinion tends to be more alarmist than scientific opinion, says Carbon Mitigation Initiative codirector Robert Socolow. "But, in the climate case, the experts -- the people who work with the climate models every day, the people who do ice cores -- they are more concerned. They're goin ... |
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