Social development, the prosperity of our people, climate change, the environment -- those are the type of issues that we can now include in our agenda.
With more than 25 years of experience in broadcast journalism, Allen has also worked at NBC News, MSNBC and The Weather Channel, where she served as the network's first full-time environment and climate correspondent.
But in the wake of Sandy, he says it is the environment - specifically the threat of climate change - which decides him for Mr Obama.
"The key message to rich countries is that what seems like them to be a domestic political difficulty is for the vulnerable nations an existential problem, " said Saleemul Huq, senior fellow in climate change at the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), which gave technical support to the Maldives meeting.
But Correa stressed that the knowledge of how to work with the environment, climate and materials had long been available - but modern architects had "forgotten and forsaken" it.
While there are ongoing failures in the community bank space, it has become very clear that the climate and environment for those institutions has strengthened, and in fact fourth-quarter earnings for the group have improved.
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The nature of the cuts became clear this week with an announcement from the Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA) that feed-in tariff rates would be reduced by 40 percent for those projects installed after February 1, 2013 and before January 31st, 2014.
He spoke in a conference call with several reporters on the eve of his Clinton Global Initiative University this weekend in San Diego, where 1, 100 students from 300 schools around the world and in every state will gather to create problem-solving pr0jects in five areas: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation, and public health.
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In the past two years, I've been a contributor to Scientific American.com, Universe Today.com, Nature News online, Cosmos magazine online, Physics World, Smithsonian magazine online, Yale Environment 360.com, Miller-McCune.com, Climate Central.com and The Daily Climate.com.
One is up in the high Meseta of central Spain, at 1, 000m or more, with a very harsh climate and the other is in the mountains of Granada - again in a very harsh environment.
Ministers and officials will be coming to Brussels fresh from an informal two-day session at UN climate convention headquarters in Bonn, where they've heard United Nations Environment Programme chief scientist Joseph Alcamo outline a few key issues.
That satisfied global-warming sceptics in the ruling party but failed to address rising public concern over the environment and climate change.
Population science is once more centre-stage, pushed by climate change, which raises worries about the impact so many billions have on the environment of the earth, and food-price spikes, which imply doubts about whether it will be possible to feed them all.
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