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CEOs: environmental and social data helps companies make better decisions
2013-09-25 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Chief executives acknowledge businesses will make better long term decisions if they consider their company's environmental and social footprints alongside financial impacts, but very few are using data about their total impact for this purpose. That is the conclusion of a survey of 187 chief executives from companies with turnovers larger than $100m conducted by financial services company PwC, which suggests companies are increasingly looking beyond "narrow notions of input, output and profit"...
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The whitewashing of the environmental movement
2013-09-24 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The traditional environmental movement has a diversity problem. Thats according to Van Jones, founder of Green for All and environmental and civil rights advocate. But Jones says its not just that the staffs of many large, mainstream environmental organizations have been historically mostly white -- its that most of the smaller environmental justice groups are getting a fraction of the funding that the big groups receive. Jones says for the environmental movement as a whole to succeed, that...
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Environmental inspections of US oil and gas wells falling short, agency says
2013-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FuelFix: Environmental inspections of oil and gas facilities on public lands have jumped nearly twofold since 2007, but federal investigators said Monday that the government is doing a poor job of targeting the riskiest sites. In a new report, the Government Accountability Office faulted the Bureau of Land Management for not including information about the environmental inspection history of many wells in its central database for tracking oil and gas facilities on public lands. As a result, the inspection...
Lagarde says IMF work can contribute to environmental change
2013-09-24 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The International Monetary Fund can play a role in protecting the planet from environmental damage, IMF head Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday, as she highlighted how an analysis of the harmful effects of energy subsidies could act as a catalyst for action. Lagarde's speech at the United Nations on Tuesday was the most direct example yet of the IMF's foray into focusing on climate change, after it published a research paper on energy subsidies in March. "The IMF is not an environmental organization,...
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International Arbitration Tribunal Finds Chevron Not Liable for Environmental Claims in Ecuador
2013-09-23 06:32:25| chemicalonline News Articles
An international arbitration tribunal yesterday issued a Partial Award in favor of Chevron and its subsidiary, Texaco Petroleum Company (TexPet). The Tribunal found that the Settlement and Release Agreements that the government of Ecuador entered into with TexPet released TexPet and its affiliates of any liability for all public interest or collective environmental claims
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