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Fortis to buy Arizona-based UNS Energy for $2.5 billion
2013-12-12 01:19:13| Energy - Topix.net
Fortis Inc., a Canadian utility company, said Wednesday that it plans to buy power provider UNS Energy Corp. for $2.5 billion, expanding its business into Arizona.
UN's 2C target will fail to avoid a climate disaster, scientists warn
2013-12-03 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The limit of 2C of global warming agreed by the world's governments is a "dangerous target", "foolhardy" and will not avoid the most disastrous consequences of climate change, new research from a panel of eminent climate scientists warned on Tuesday. In a new paper, the climate scientist Professor James Hansen and a team of international experts found the most dangerous effects of a warming climate sea level rise, Arctic ice melt, extreme weather would begin kicking in with a global temperature...
BRF Selected as Component of UN's New Global Compact Index
2013-10-03 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
BRAZIL - BRF (formerly Brasil Foods) has been selected as a component of the United Nations' new Global Compact index for companies that are committed to sustainability with the best performance in the capital markets.
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Climate-Change Deniers Misinterpret Data, UNs Figueres Says
2013-09-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Critics of efforts to address climate change are misinterpreting a slowdown in the pace of global warming, the United Nations top climate official said. Those who deny mankinds contribution to warming have a primitive understanding of the science behind the Earths climate, Christiana Figueres, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said today in an interview. She spoke a day ahead of the release of the groups updated assessment of climate science. It will show a slowdown in...
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Indian-origin scientist chosen for UN's highest environmental award
2013-09-17 06:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: KOLKATA: An Indian-origin scientist, who proved how cutting emissions of "black carbon" or soot can significantly lessen the impact of climate change, has been selected for the United Nation's top environmental award. A statement issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Tuesday said Veerabhadran Ramanathan of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California is to receive the 2013 " Champions of the Earth award", the UN's highest environmental award. In 1997, he had co-led an...
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