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Article: Faith groups launch climate initiative.(NATION)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 30, 2009
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WASHINGTON * With a media teleconference earlier this month, a wide coalition of U.S. Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and interfaith groups launched a new poverty-oriented climate change initiative, DaySix.org. The Internet-based project is a new effort to raise awareness of climate change among hundreds of thousands of Americans and engage them in a grass-roots campaign to increase U.S. funding to help the world's poor adapt.
A climate change bill already approved in the House of Representatives devotes virtually all its funding to causes of climate changes, with only 1 percent, less than $1 billion, going to help developing countries abroad cope with the effects ...