Billionaires Bring Climate Change Action Plans to UN

Billionaires Bring Climate Change Action Plans to UN
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Stevenson Swanson of The Chicago Tribune reports: "Invoking symbols as varied as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Allied war effort in World War II, two billionaires helped open a United Nations climate change meeting Monday aimed at promoting global efforts by governments and businesses to slow the gradual warming of the atmosphere."

David Roberts | John McCain and Climate Change
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Writing for The Nation, David Roberts says, "Though recession and war are probably higher on the public's immediate priority list, there is no challenge of greater historical consequence facing the next US president than the climate crisis. It is vitally important that the next chief executive enter the Oval Office committed to decisive and sustained action."

Rising Deforestation in Amazon Undermines Brazil's Environmental Policies
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According to Jack Chang of McClatchy Newspapers, "As deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest declined over the past three years, the country's leaders crowed that they'd found the recipe for stopping the destruction of the world's most diverse ecosystem."