The summit marks twenty years since 1992's Earth Summit, which set goals for tackling climate change and poverty.
The article, however, had no mention of the many idealists working to solve problems in health, education, climate change and poverty that plague much of the globe.
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Today, no country is in the old sense far away when the consequences of regional instability and terrorism - and then also climate change, poverty, mass population movements and even organised crime - reverberate quickly round the globe.
While there continue to be some key constitutional issues and real problems of poverty and climate change, the mood was one of urging the developed world to stick to the development commitment and funds set aside for the region, now more than ever.
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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Supporters say money raised could help protect public services and jobs, fight poverty and tackle climate change.
If and when climate change promises to claim more casualties than poverty and starvation, the world will begin heeding their calls.
AIDS, poverty and climate change, and also helps other philanthropists develop programmes of their own.
He claims Mr Mugabe's presence will "divert attention" from big issues such as poverty, climate change and health.
Many Christians, Mr Warren included, are starting to expand their political concerns to include poverty and climate change.
Mr Blair joined Mr Clinton to launch a programme aiming to tackle poverty, climate change and key world issues by involving politicians, business leaders, activists and academics in seeking solutions.
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The focus has shifted to fighting global poverty and climate change, with musical events such as Live 8 and Live Earth, and while they may not be singing songs of protest, pop stars are using their presence at these global events to push for change.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee (at 9am) looks into energy prices, profits and poverty with a series of academics and the Environmental Audit Committee (at 10.30am) has its first evidence session on "well-being", a policy approach which attempts to apply the idea of natural capital, to public policy making.
The authors observe that the world needs the social sciences more than ever, in order to confront the major challenges facing humanity, such as poverty, epidemics and climate change.
Sunday's forum, which will be held at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, will allow each candidate to speak for 40 minutes on various moral issues, including poverty, global AIDS, climate change and human rights.
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Environment spokesperson for Plaid Cymru Dafydd Elis-Thomas urged the government to consider tackling fuel poverty and transport infrastructure in the climate change strategy.
The participants stressed the central role of water in ensuring sustainable development, public health, poverty alleviation and combating the effects of climate change.
Views on things like climate change, war and peace, the present capitalist economic model and poverty would all be welcome contributions to the public discourse, rather than lectures on gay marriage.
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Like poverty or ethnic and religious conflict, climate change is not something likely to be solved, eliminated or ended, but rather a condition that society will struggle to do better or worse at in managing.
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Engineering has many solutions for strengthening the resilience of our societies -- while tackling poverty, nurturing our resources and responding to climate change.
As India becomes an increasingly influential global power, we can partner to meet other transnational challenges: developing clean energy partnerships, confronting climate change, stopping infectious disease, reducing hunger and working to end extreme poverty in our time.
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Caribbean faces unique challenges in coping with the climate change, sea-level rise, natural disasters, alleviation of poverty and sustainable development.
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This is between the concept of fuel poverty and the legislation being used to try and deal with climate change.
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