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Jacob Chamberlain

World’s Financial Elite Get Lofty On ‘Inequality,’ But Critics Unimpressed

‘We need much bigger changes … not just speaking out against inequality and not just speaking out against contradictory policies, but actually making those policy changes’

15 апреля, 2014
Jacob Chamberlain
15 апреля, 2014
От Jacob Chamberlain

In reference to last week's "Spring Meetings" between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, critics are calling on the two financial giants to put their money where their mouths are and initiate policies that fight growing global inequality, rather than create it. In the build-up to the annual meetings between finance ministers,

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‘Tax Break For The Rich’: House Passes Ryan Budget

Budget serves as GOP ‘campaign manifesto’ ahead of midterms

11 апреля, 2014
Jacob Chamberlain
11 апреля, 2014
От Jacob Chamberlain

In a move critics say would lead the country further down a path of austerity, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Paul Ryan's proposed budget plan on Thursday. If made into law, the bill would block funding for Medicaid and food stamps, turn Medicare into a voucher system, repeal the Affordable Care Act, cut grants for college students,

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‘This Is Not Over’: Gulf Life Still Reeling From Toxic BP Spill

Report on four year anniversary of worst oil disaster in US history details fourteen ailing species.

10 апреля, 2014
Jacob Chamberlain
10 апреля, 2014
От Jacob Chamberlain

Nearly four years after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe, plants, animals, and fish in the Gulf of Mexico are still reeling from the toxic spill, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Wildlife Federation. The report, which arrives just ahead of the disaster's anniversary, examined 14 species of wildlife in the Gulf and

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Costs Down, Profits Up: Green Energy Looking Good, Says UN

‘A long-term shift in investment over the next few decades towards a cleaner energy portfolio is needed to avoid dangerous climate change’

9 апреля, 2014
Jacob Chamberlain
9 апреля, 2014
От Jacob Chamberlain
A visitor takes photographs of solar moduls in the new solar power park in Lieberose, near Cottbus, eastern Germany, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. The solar modules were installed on a former military training area. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz)?

Costs are down, profits are up, and renewable energy is contributing an increasing amount of electricity to the world's energy grids, according to a report published Monday by the United Nations. With that information in mind, governments must now "re-evaluate investment priorities, shift incentives, build capacity and improve governance

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Arctic Sea Ice Continues ‘Death Spiral’

‘Average ice extent for March 2014 was the fifth lowest for the month in the satellite record’

4 апреля, 2014
Jacob Chamberlain
4 апреля, 2014
От Jacob Chamberlain
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Monthly March ice extent for 1979 to 2014 shows a decline of 2.6% per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average (National Snow and Ice Data Center)Looking at new data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Suzanne Goldenberg at the Guardian reports Thursday that Arctic sea ice continues down a "death spiral," disappearing much faster than

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IMF Policies Pushing Poor Countries To The Brink

‘Truly shocking’ increase in austerity makes ‘debt situations far worse’

3 апреля, 2014
Jacob Chamberlain
3 апреля, 2014
От Jacob Chamberlain

Harsh austerity measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund have risen sharply over the last few years, causing mass struggle for poor countries, a report published Wednesday shows. According to the report published by the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad)—a debt and poverty watchdog network of 48 European NGOs—this

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‘Unprecedented’ Ocean Temperatures On Track To Bring Death To Coral Ecosystems

‘It’s not that change is going to come, it’s that change is already happening’

2 апреля, 2014
Jacob Chamberlain
2 апреля, 2014
От Jacob Chamberlain
Tropical fish swim around the coral formations on the artificial reef project, in this undated handout photo taken in Pemuteran, on the island of Bali, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Wolf Hilbertz)

Coral reefs off of the Western Australian coast are in extreme peril due to "unprecedented" ocean temperatures caused by climate change, a report released Tuesday by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) warns. While ocean temperatures fluctuate over the years, both the highs and lows have consistently reached new heights in the

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