[Rio+20 Info Group] RELEASE: CSO SE4All Statement

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We at Ethical Markets Media fully support this Statement and hope that signers will also join in signing our statement on Transforming Finance and a Financial Transactions Tax, Hazel Henderson, Editor CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT Governments and the UN should support a more ambitious, accountable and people-driven Sustainable Energy for All …

Clean Energy Revolution Crucial To Ensure Growth In Poorer Countries Ban

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CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION CRUCIAL TO ENSURE GROWTH IN POORER COUNTRIES BAN New York, Oct 10 2011 2:05PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today for a ?clean energy revolution? to help the estimated three billion people that lack modern power and urged countries to recognize the impact that energy security has on …

Shining a Light on Energy Efficiency

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Shining a Light on Energy Efficiency www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights15 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight July 12, 2011 Our inefficient, carbon-based energy economy threatens to irreversibly disrupt the Earth’s climate. Averting dangerous climate change and the resultant crop-shrinking heat waves, more-destructive storms, accelerated sea level rise, and waves of climate refugees means cutting …

Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Leave Climate on the Brink

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Published on Monday, May 30, 2011 by The Guardian/UK Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Leave Climate on the Brink Exclusive: Record rise, despite recession, means 2C target almost out of reach by Fiona Harvey Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, …