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Shale Gas: China's Untapped Resource
2013-06-13 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: When I met recently with a senior investment officer from China Investment Corporation (CIC), the countrys sovereign wealth fund, I was told that CIC is very bullish on the United States. Why? In CICs opinion, the existence of large shale gas reserves in the U.S. will provide a massive shot in the arm for the countrys large but mature economy -- kind of a modern-day energy equivalent to the deus ex machina in Greek literature. If that is the case, then an equally bullish case can be made for...
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gas
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untapped
Smithfield Embodies China's Record Hunger for Farms: Commodities
2013-06-12 12:53:58| Food - Topix.net
On a sunny March afternoon, 11 Chinese executives armed with digital cameras and iPads got out of a van on Brazil's highway BR-163 to photograph soybean-loaded trucks headed to export terminals in the south.
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Sizzling stocks for China's food revolution
2013-06-11 18:05:45| Food - Topix.net
China likes to eat. Just ask the nervous employees of Smithfield Foods , the acquisition target of one of the largest food producers in China.
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revolution
stocks
chinas
Analysis - China's Cognac slowdown hits Rémy Cointreau's margins
2013-06-11 14:18:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
A slowdown at the top end of China's Cognac market has knocked back Rémy Cointreau's margins in the second half of the year despite greater profits, an analyst has said.
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margins
slowdown
China's rich provinces outsource emissions to less developed areas
2013-06-11 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rich coastal provinces of China are outsourcing their greenhouse gas emissions by importing goods from less developed provinces, according to scientists. The practice makes it far less likely that China - the world's biggest emitter - will reach its climate goals, the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said. "Recent studies have shown that the high standard of living enjoyed by people in the richest countries often come at the expense of CO2 emissions produced...
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