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Canada: Natural Resources Minister under fire for climate-change comments
Posted by Globe and Mail: Heather Scoffield on April 13th, 2013
Globe and Mail: Just as one federal cabinet minister is urging a more sophisticated tone to the climate-change debate, a second cabinet minister has found himself trying to prove he is not a climate-change denier.
Environment Minister Peter Kent this week said the federal government would never opt for a carbon pricing scheme itself, but would be open-minded about pricing arrangements set up by the provinces.
"We need to add a bit of subtle differentiation when we talk about carbon pricing," Mr. Kent said...
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Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 13th, 2013
Inter Press Service: The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025.
Together, these two diseases account for around 30 percent of all deaths of children under five years old, around two million every year. According to new data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), most such deaths are taking place due to "piecemeal"...