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Bookmark or Share- Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’
- UN Says Eating Insects Will Solve World Hunger, Global Warming, Pollution, and Create Jobs
- Carbon dioxide now at highest level in 5 million years
- Greenhouse gases make high temps hotter in China
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- Roadmap for Sustainable Finance in Georgia - IFCundertake ambitious efforts to adapt and build resilience to climate change and to limit global warming to well below 2°C. By adopting these initiatives, countries choose more sustainable path for development that is to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs3.
- CBE Guiding Principles on Sustainable Finance2. Encouraging financing projects aimed at reducing climate change and global warming. 3. Assessing risks of climate change in projects to be financed and work on managing those risks. 4. Increase awareness and develop the capabilities of the Bank's staff in the field of managing those risks resulting from climate change.
- Raising $23 Trillion: Greening Banks & Capital Markets for GrowthIn December 2015, at the Conference of the Parties 21 (“COP 21”) in Paris, France, 196 countries came together to forge a climate change agreement that pledged to keep global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less. To bring the world to this 2-degree track, the International Energy Agency estimates that the cumulative investments needed in energy supply and efficiency reach $53 trillion.
- A Wind Farm Powers Change in Jamaica - IFCThese turbines were set up by BMR Jamaica Wind Limited, the largest private sector-led renewable energy project in the country. Located about 90 kilometers west of Kingston, the new project is expected to generate about 120,000 megawatts of energy per year—equivalent to 3 percent of Jamaica’s energy demand—and reach about 15,000 customers.
- Taking Action on Climate - IFCTo help avoid the risks that global warming brings and capture opportunities, IFC, along with the World Bank, is systematically increasing the share of climate-related projects in our investment decisions. ... (COP 21), when 195 countries agreed to take action that would keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius.
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