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Insurance Companies Unwittingly Aid Marine Poaching
2016-06-11 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Authorities blow up a Thai fishing boat caught fishing illegally in Indonesian waters. A new study shows that some illegal vessels still carry marine insurance. Last spring, the Thunder, an alleged poaching vessel, met its end off the coast of So Tomé and sunk to its watery grave. The Thunder was allegedly part of an armada of fishing scallywags that cumulatively siphon billions of dollars a year from the global fishing economy and wreak untold damage on fisheries around the world. Now, recently...
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Companies Use Voluntary Carbon Markets for More Than Just Offsetting
2016-06-10 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: William Theisen says his heart sank when he opened the latest edition of Ecosystem Marketplace's annual survey of voluntary carbon markets, entitled Raising Ambition: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2016. "The first thing we go to is the price," he recalls, "And we were like, 'Oh no, $3.30!'" As Director of Business Development at carbon strategy consultancy EcoAct, low prices are bad for business, and the report identified a record low of $3.30 per metric ton of greenhouse-gas emissions...
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Companies Failing To Account For Climate Change At Risk Of Decline & Bankruptcy
2016-06-09 17:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: Companies failing to account for the impact of climate change and a transition to a low-carbon economy are at risk of decline or even bankruptcy. This is the primary finding from a new submission to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures published earlier this week by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, along with the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economies and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to the...
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Semtech LoRa Wireless RF Technology Adopted By Metering Companies Throughout China
2016-06-07 09:24:09| wirelessdesignonline News Articles
Semtech Corporation(Nasdaq:SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced today that its LoRa™ RF wireless technology has been widely adopted by many metering companies in China to scale metering deployments domestically and internationally.
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Another Giant Pension Fund Divested From Oil, Coal, And Gas Companies
2016-06-07 01:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: D.C.`s $6.4 billion city government pension fund has divested from fossil fuels. In September, the District of Columbia pledged to curb its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Consistent with that aim, D.C`s Retirement Board has scrubbed its $6.4 billion pension fund of investments in the 200 largest publicly traded coal, oil and gas companies. I applaud the D.C. Retirement Board for doing right by all Washingtonians, said D.C. Council member Charles Allen. In the past, divestment...
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