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Donors Pledge $6.1 Billion to Climate Change Funds

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Monday, 29 September 2008
windmill-santorini.jpgIndustrialized countries pledged more than $6.1 billion on Friday to international investment funds aimed at helping developing countries adopt cleaner technologies and mitigate growth in greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank said. These included 10 countries -- Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland Britain and the United States. (Full story in Reuters News)

 

 

Hamas Releases Prisoners as Goodwill Gesture

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Monday, 29 September 2008
Hamas security forces in Gaza released 35 members of the rival Fatah movement from prison on Sunday as a goodwill gesture to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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$4.5 Billion Pledged to Send Kids to School

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Saturday, 27 September 2008
A coalition of governments, charities and U.N. agencies pledged $4.5 billion on Thursday in an effort to get all the world's children in school by 2015. (Associated Press via MSNBC )
 

Sahara Solar Scheme Could Power Poor West Africa

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Saturday, 27 September 2008
West African legislators worried by climate change and soaring energy costs want regional leaders to back plans to harness sun and wind energy that experts say could bring electricity to some of the poorest people on earth. 'We have the natural resource—enough sunshine that can supply our total power requirements,' an energy expert on the Ghana parliament told Reuters. (Full story on Reuters)
 

Anti-Poverty Summit Raises $16 Billion- $3 Billion for Malaria (with Video)

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Friday, 26 September 2008
bono-poverty-gathering.jpgDespite current financial woes, a UN summit called to rev up the war on global poverty raised a total of roughly 16 billion dollars, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said. "We have full commitment from many countries in pledges to help the world's poor."

On the malaria front, participants committed around three billions dollars for a program to save more than 4.2 million lives between 2008 and 2015. (Thanks to Bill F. for the news tip)

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