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Replacing plastic "not an environmental panacea", warns engineering group
2019-01-17 18:20:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Replacing plastic packaging with more environmentally-friendly alternatives will not solve the global plastic crisis, an international engineering firm has warned.
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Momentum for insurance; No panacea for tackling climate risk
2016-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: David Bresch has headed the Sustainability & Political Risk Management Unit at Swiss Re in Zurich since 2008, and he has lectured on climate adaptation and risk insurance as an emerging tool to provide a kind of last line of defense for property owners from catastrophic climate damage. As nearly 200 nations headed into the Paris talks that concluded in December with the first truly global climate deal, leaders from Swiss Re and nearly 80 other companies including Toshiba Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and...
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Panacea
2016-01-12 00:05:57| PortlandOnline
6714 NE Sandy Blvd PDF Document, 248kbCategory: Central Northeast Portland (CNN)
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Electric vehicles no panacea for B.C. to meet its climate change goals
2015-11-28 08:18:51| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Gas tax revenues for TransLink would take a hit while greenhouse gas emissions would not decrease enough to hit targets An electric car is plugged into a charging station at Vancity's office in Vancouver. Electric vehicles accounted for 1,200 of the 1.3 million passenger vehicles on Lower Mainland roads in 2014.
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Carbon prices - work in progress, not panacea, for rich & poor
2015-11-27 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It was supposed to be the way the market would cut greenhouse gases by itself: governments selling companies permits-to-pollute, which they could trade among themselves. Over time, the number of permits would be reduced, and the cost to companies of failing to cut emissions would rise. Yet, 10 years after the EU launched the world's biggest carbon trading scheme, the effectiveness of the concept is in question and climate activists are disenchanted or hostile. While there is still support for...
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