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To keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for poor nations, the United Nations climate chief said Friday. In an unusual and blunt lecture at a university in Baku, Azerbaijan, the host city of upcoming international climate negotiations later this year, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell called gains made in the...

A new proposal from the United Nations floated the idea of higher-income nations reducing their meat intake while improving access for low-income countries as an effort to fight climate change.

Expert says its a sombre day for climate justice; Pakistan had led efforts for its creation at COP2

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Borrowers Are Feeling the Bite of Rate Hikes; Mortgage Rates Slow Unwinding of Fed Balance Sheet By James Christie Good day. Fed officials signaled last week that they plan to keep interest...

LONDON, Sept 21 — People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and fields around the...

While poverty and malnutrition are contributing factors, more research needs to be done to understand the root causes of the problem, according to Dana McCoy, lead author of the study

Alex Gladstein on how "monetary colonialism" has crippled the Third World

Article: Species Forerunners: Can Humanity Grow Up in Time? - The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. Individual thought is mostly the result of collective thought and of interaction with other people. The language is entirely collective, and most of the thoughts in it are. Everybody does his own thing to those thoughts - he makes a contribution. But very few change them very much. David Bohm, Physicist, On Dialogue

The new head of the World Bank said Tuesday that growing divides between rich and poor nations risked deepening poverty in the developing world, at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in India.Finance ministers from regional rivals and neighbours India and China met early Tuesday, without commenting to reporters.