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Deforestation cuts into climate change goals
2014-12-08 11:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mines, palm oil plantations, large farms and mining projects are contributing to an alarming pace of forest destruction, a new report has found, hampering efforts to curb global warming. Satellite imagery indicates that more than 30,000 hectares of forest are lost daily, said the report "Securing Forests, Securing Rights", launched in Peru on Monday by a coalition of rights groups during international climate change talks. Forests play a key role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere;...
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Abbott must shift with tide on climate change
2014-12-08 07:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Advertiser: Tony Abbott's office was counselled by some of the ministers in the Abbott cabinet that it would be unwise to try to keep climate change off the agenda for the G20 summit. If Australia tried to avoid the subject, it would become the dominant one, ministers advised. This warning was offered more than once, and over the course of about a year. Of course, that advice was exactly right. And, of course, the prime minister's office ignored it. The result was that the Abbott government was damaged...
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Sika Does Not Support Change of Control to Saint-Gobain
2014-12-08 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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Giant Phil storms show climate change threat: Greenpeace
2014-12-07 17:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Greenpeace global chief Kumi Naidoo said Sunday increasingly violent storms hitting the Philippines showed the world had to act on climate change, as Typhoon Hagupit barrelled across the country. Naidoo was in the Philippines to "bear witness" to the damage done by Hagupit, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year, and planned to visit some of the worst-affected areas on Monday. "Nature does not negotiate, We actually have to wake up and smell the coffee. We need to understand that...
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Financial advice ripe for change
2014-12-07 15:36:19| Automakers - Topix.net
Those were two of several recommendations outlined in David Murray's inquiry, which argues the advice industry needs to take major steps to create a culture that focuses on consumer interests. Mr Murray's inquiry also pushes for higher education standards for planners, and stronger powers for the corporate regulator to crack down on wayward financial professionals, among others.
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