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Corporate heavyweights face shareholders in annual meetings with some change of rules
2015-03-09 05:53:55| Chemicals - Topix.net
South Korea's weighty corporations will hold their shareholders meetings starting this week, where minority stake owners and the national pension fund operator are expected to gain a bigger voice, market watchers said Sunday. The assembly for shareholders began last month, but big-name companies, including Samsung Group and Hyundai Motor affiliates, have scheduled the meetings in the coming two weeks, mostly on Fridays that have been duly named the "super" day of shareholders.
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Political fallout predicted from papal letter climate change
2015-03-09 04:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Trib: Alfred Cipriani considers Pope Francis the right pope for the right time but believes his much-anticipated papal letter on the environment will stray into an area better left to others. My problem with him talking about the environment is I don't think he has the whole story, said Cipriani, 64, of Greensburg, who attends St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church in the village of Crabtree. I don't think it will have any impact on the people in the pews. Pope Francis, who plans to release a letter...
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Florida officials banned term 'climate change' state employees say
2015-03-08 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Former employees from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection say they were ordered to avoid using terms such as "climate change" in official reports, emails and other communications following the appointment of a new DEP director by Gov. Rick Scott. Four former DEP employees told the Miami Herald that the policy was unwritten but verbally distributed across the state in 2011, when the Republican governor appointed Herschel Vinyard Jr. as the DEP's director. "We were told not to...
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Florida banned state workers from using term 'climate change' report
2015-03-08 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Officials with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the agency in charge of setting conservation policy and enforcing environmental laws in the state, issued directives in 2011 barring thousands of employees from using the phrases climate change and global warming, according to a bombshell report by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR). The report ties the alleged policy, which is described as unwritten, to the election of Republican governor Rick Scott...
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Climate change and social disruption: how one form of chaos breeds another
2015-03-08 19:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In 2014, around 3,500 boat people died trying to cross the Mediterranean to enter Europe. They risked their lives and lost. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees around 218,000 people got to Europe by irregular means last year. They took a chance and survived. Among them were those fleeing the violence in Syria, and of these, a proportion must be counted as climate refugees. Possibly because of global warming, the years 2007 to 2010 saw the most sustained drought on record in the...
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