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Australia: Direct Action is a mickey mouse scheme says former Howard adviser
2014-11-02 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Direct Action is a "Mickey Mouse" scheme that falls short of the "real leadership" needed to tackle climate change, a former adviser to John Howard says. The president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Geoff Cousins, has slammed the Abbott government's Direct Action policy, which was approved by the Senate last week, following a surprise deal between the Coalition and the Palmer United Party. The program will set up a $2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund, designed to help Australia...
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UK's National Pig Association Appoints Senior Adviser
2014-09-24 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Georgina Crayford, who is majouring on salmonella surveillance and control in her University of Liverpool PhD, is to join NPA next month as a senior adviser.
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VIDEO: UN adviser on 'alarming climate change'
2014-09-24 00:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A UN climate change summit is taking place in New York which aims to galvanise 120 member states to sign up to a new global climate agreement at talks in Paris next year. The US economist Jeffrey Sachs is a special adviser to Ban Ki-moon and he is also director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. The BBC's Michelle Fleury started by asking for his reaction to Sunday's demonstration in New York calling for action on climate change.
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Shareholder adviser recommends against Chiquita-Fyffes merger
2014-09-07 10:42:41| Food - Topix.net
Cutrale-Safra announced the proxy firm Institutional Shareholder Services recommended its clients vote against the proposed Chiquita-Fyffes transaction. ISS recommended for clients to vote for the Cutrale-Safra proposal to adjourn the Sept.
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Paging Dr. Watson, IBM's medical adviser for the future
2014-08-29 06:35:31| Biotech - Topix.net
IBM continues to make the case for the nascent field of cognitive computing, showing off some Watson prototypes Thursday that could help speed scientific discovery in the medical field, by scanning large volumes of literature and data far more quickly then humans can, and suggesting possible leads.
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