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Japans Misuse Climate Funds for Dirty Coal Plants Exposed
2014-12-03 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: World governments gathered in Lima, Peru for the latest round of U.N. climate negotiations should have finance on their mind. Making a just transition to a climate-safe future means helping developing countries to deal with damage from climate change, equipping them with the technology and skills to adapt to new circumstances, and to continue to develop on their own paths in the face of the climate crisis.The GCF still suffers from dismally low finance pledges compared to what is really needed...
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Walter: Future Depends On Met Coal Price Recovery
2014-12-03 22:23:59| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Walter Energy is a pure-play metallurgical coal producer. The company generates approximately 93% of its sales from met coal operations.
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Pivoting the climate debate from oil to coal
2014-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Yorker: Early on in the furious battle over the Keystone XL pipeline, a new slogan began to appear at rallies: Keystone XL = Game Over for Climate. That phrase, game over for the climate, originated in a May, 2012, Times Op-Ed, by James Hansen, who was at the time NASAs most prominent climatologist. Hansen has said many times that he was misquoted--he was referring to the full development of the Alberta oil sands, not the pipeline per se. Nonetheless, the equation with Keystone stuck. The exploitation...
Will Australia be the great coal defender at Lima climate talks?
2014-12-03 10:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When a climate science denialist starts congratulating your country on its stance at major international climate change talks, you know things have gone decidedly bad. That was a year ago in Warsaw, Poland, where Australia was establishing a new reputation as a negative force on global climate negotiations. Australia gets it, said the climate science denialist talking head Marc Morano, a man most often seen verballing peer-reviewed science on conservative American cable news channels. But...
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Australian banks to rule out funding of coal projects
2014-12-03 05:30:29| Automakers - Topix.net
The Australian Conservation Foundation has released a report calling on Australian banks to rule out involvement in financing controversial coal projects proposed for Queensland's Galilee Basin near the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area. The report called Equatorial Principles names four major banks as signatories, including Australia-New Zealand Banking Corp , Commonwealth Bank of Australia , National Australia Bank , and Westpac Banking Corp. The EPs is a result of a research undertaken by ACFs Energy Analyst Tristan Knowles which investigates how Australian banks should deal with financing coal projects in the area.
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