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World losing ground in climate battle says UN body
2014-04-13 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: An immediate effort to cut carbon emissions and avoid the most severe impacts of global warming would slow the world's economy by 0.06 per cent per year through to the end of the century says the UN body tasked with tracking climate climate mitigation worldwide. The estimate assumes that all countries begin reducing emissions now under an international scheme that includes a "single global carbon price", according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). But...
Indigenous Leaders Targeted in Battle to Protect Forests
2014-04-10 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies. Indigenous representatives and environmental activists from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas met over the weekend here to commemorate those leading community fights against extractive industries. The conference, called Chico Vive, honoured Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber-tapper killed in 1988 for fighting to save the Amazon."Right now in our territory...
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Battle Plan for Climate Change: How to Cut Greenhouse Gases
2014-04-09 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Trust in technology: That seems to be the underlying message of a coming report from the world's top panel on climate change. elated: "Can Coal Ever Be Clean?") Scheduled for release on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report will point to many possible ways-from burying greenhouse gases to going nuclear to encouraging biofuel production-to save humanity from the ravages of climate change. "We are at a critical juncture," IPCC chair Rajendra...
Non-banks notch a win in long-running derivatives battle
2014-04-09 07:29:42| Food - Topix.net
A group of small brokerages and large commodities companies convinced lawmakers to tweak a rule that they say would have made derivatives trading more expensive for them and sent more business to Wall Street banks that already dominate the market.
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United Parcel Service, Inc. Labor Battle Heats Up: Is Worldport at Risk for a Strike?
2014-04-09 03:00:00| Trucking - Topix.net
This story hasn't garnered much attention from the financial media outlets or during UPS earnings releases.
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