ADB's 700 million dollar global warming fight fund
AFP - Fri Dec 4, 1:02 am ETThe Asian Development Bank said Friday it would invest 700 million dollars to help member countries adapt to climate change and develop renewable energy technologies.
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The Asian Development Bank said Friday it would invest 700 million dollars to help member countries adapt to climate change and develop renewable energy technologies.
Leaders have refused to sign any pact that would inhibit the country’s growth, but India is considered especially vulnerable to the problems attributed to global warming.
The shopping list includes wind farms, seawalls and even real estate — new homelands for flooded-out islanders. And poor countries want to present the bill to the rich at next week's climate talks in Copenhagen.
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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Across Uganda, thousands of women warm supper over new, $8 orange-painted stoves . The clay-and- metal pots burn about two-thirds the charcoal of the open-fire cooking typical of East Africa , where forests are being chopped down in the struggle to feed the region’s 125 million people.
Greenpeace executive director Phil Radford wants environmental organizations to return to their grassroots.
President Obama on Thursday highlighted renewable energy and green technology as the nation's "best candidate" for moving away from employment bubbles like the ones that have caused so much havoc on the nation's economy.
The Internal Revenue Service plans to auction land on one of America's poorest Indian reservations, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit which seeks to block the sale.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- India’s offer to voluntarily reduce the amount of carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product after numerical pledges from the U.S. and China may move the climate-change talks ahead.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has signed a contract to buy and operate a wind-energy project that would produce enough electricity for about 100,000 California homes.
Corporations should examine their own energy use. Dell already has.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- China Longyuan Power Group Corp. , the nation’s largest wind-power producer, raised HK$17.5 billion ($2.26 billion) in the world’s third-biggest initial public offering by an alternative energy company.
The prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said.
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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan aims to fit solar panels on 100,000 roofs as a new pricing structure for renewable energy helps ensure profits for builders, a government official said.