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Faith groups launch climate initiative.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 30-OCT-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Faith groups launch climate initiative.(NATION)

Article Excerpt
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 of those changes. Faith-based backers of the DaySix initiative are seeking to have the Senate version of that bill increase the...

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