Coal and Electricity - NYTimes.com

[Letter] There is a reason coal generates nearly half of our nation’s electricity: because it’s affordable, abundant, reliable and increasingly clean. We need energy policies that take advantage of coal’s importance to the United States, not diminish it.

Now Global Warming Is Going To Kill Off All The Males. - Story Balloon

Global warming is tricking mothers into giving birth to more boys who ‘never should have been born in the first place.’

Gender Indicators for Global Climate Funds Still an Afterthought

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF), established by the World Bank in cooperation with regional multilateral development banks, provide funding for developing countries' climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

Since their launch in 2008, CIF has allocated 6,5 billion dollars to climate change projects in 45 developing countries. More than a third of the money went to 15 African states.

But most of the money - more than 70 percent - is financing large-scale clean technology energy and transportation projects.
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Florah Mmereki, project manager at Wena Industry and Environment, an environmental education trust based in Gaborone, Botswana, agrees that efforts need to be accelerated: "The few climate change project projects that exist in Botswana today are not targeted at women. It's a huge oversight."