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Financial systems must consider extreme weather, or risk condemning millions to die
2014-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its extraordinary how the financial markets that pride themselves on their data analysis and forecasting have such a blind spot when it comes to the impacts of climate change. I was reminded of this by a new report released today from the Royal Society, which calls on our global financial systems to start considering the risks posed by extreme weather, or risk condemning millions of people to die. The failure of financial institutions to focus on the dangers comes despite increasing numbers...
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Industry condemning climate change push
2013-07-05 05:35:16| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's push to fight global warming has triggered condemnation from the coal industry across the industrial Midwest, where state and local economies depend on the health of an energy sector facing strict new pollution limits. But such concerns stretch even to New England, an environmentally focused region that long has felt the effects of drifting emissions from Rust Belt states. Just ask Gary Long, the president of the Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, the state's largest...
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