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Sustainability is impossible until companies admit environmental cost

2014-01-13 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: On holiday recently, I visited the Japanese sacred area of Kumano Kodo. Miles of treks mark pilgrim routes from the ancient capital of Kyoto to a number of shrines located around the Wakayama peninsula. We were walking on a high ridge and stopped to look and to listen to the forest sounds bird song, a variety of insect noises and large butterflies. But something was strange. The sound was coming at us in mono not in stereo. One side of the ridge fell off steeply. The forest was lush, varied...

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Climate targets impossible unless rich cut emissions 10%

2013-12-10 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RTCC: Rich countries need to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% every single year to stay beneath 2C of warming -- the upper limit for what scientists have deemed acceptable for mankind -- according to Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Speaking to RTCC in Warsaw, he argued that such reductions are necessary to ensure that a new climate deal is fair on developing countries, which he argues is entitled to the majority of the remaining carbon budget in order to catch...

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Sugar roads make delivery impossible

2013-11-26 05:45:36| Sugar Industry News

Currently, the ball is in B.S.I.\'s court. What they do with it will have great impact on the industry in days to come. Experience has shown that cane-farmers are perhaps the most militant and determined protesters. They haven\'t had to demonstrate that militancy so far because the rains and the deteriorated sugar roads have made delivery of sugar-cane impossible anyway. According to B.S.I., the factory would have been ready for operation today, but that\'s not going to happen. The B.S.C.F.A. says the condition of the roads is a major challenge facing farmers right now. Millions of dollars have been allocated by the E.U. to sugar roads over the past few years, but each season the farmers are faced with the same problem. C.E.O. of B.S.C.F.A., Oscar Alonzo, says that because the E.U. money is handled by politicians, it may not always go where it should.

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