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Comcast on brink of $45bn Time Warner Cable deal

2014-02-13 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

All-stock deal would create cable giant with 33% share of U.S. pay TV market.

UN climate talks on 'brink of collapse'

2013-11-23 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: U.N. climate talks were deadlocked Saturday as the U.S. and China clashed over what role the Chinese and other fast-growing economies should play in a new pact to fight global warming. Disputes over climate aid for poor countries also overshadowed the Warsaw conference as it stretched a full day beyond its scheduled end time. The two-week talks were supposed to lay the foundation for a 2015 climate deal in Paris that countries have agreed should apply to them all. But after all-night talks,...

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Al Gore: world on brink of 'carbon bubble'

2013-11-01 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The world is on the brink of the "largest bubble ever" in finance, because of the undisclosed value of high-carbon assets on companies' balance sheets, and investment managers who fail to take account of the risks are failing in their fiduciary duty to shareholders and investors, Al Gore and his investment partner, David Blood, have said. "Stranded carbon assets" such as coal mines, fossil fuel power stations and petrol-fuelled vehicle plants represent at least $7tn on the books of publicly listed...

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