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Asset managers accused of climate change hypocrisy
2016-09-25 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Five of the worlds largest fund houses have been accused of playing games with their investors after failing to back motions that sought greater climate change disclosure at ExxonMobil and Chevron. BlackRock, Invesco, Aberdeen, BNY Mellon and Vanguard all voted against an investor-led climate change resolution at the annual meetings of the two US oil companies in May, according to data shared exclusively with FTfm by Fund Votes, a project that tracks proxy voting. The investment houses backed...
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In boost to Paris climate pact, Indian PM says will ratify it on October 2
2016-09-25 16:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India, the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, will formally join the Paris agreement on climate change on Oct. 2, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. The ratification by India, which follows that of the United States and China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, will help accelerate the enactment of the landmark Paris agreement on climate change forged last December. "Now the time has come to ratify the COP21 protocol. India will do it on Gandhi Jayanti, on...
India to ratify Paris agreement on climate change on October 2: Modi
2016-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Express: In an announcement which will cheer the global community, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that India would ratify COP21 Paris agreement on climate change, which binds each country to cut down on carbon emissions. The announcement also came just a day before External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is to address the United Nation General Assembly where she is all set to make a forceful argument to isolate countries sponsoring and exporting terrorism. "I want to make an announcement...
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Support for world-leading action on climate change skyrockets
2016-09-25 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Public support for world-leading, federal government-level action on climate change has bounced back, according to a new poll, as people perceive environmental impacts around them and support a larger role for renewable energy production. According to the Climate Institute's Climate of the Nation poll, 65 per cent of Australians want their country to lead the world on finding solutions, a significant increase since the time of divisive debates about the Gillard government's carbon tax. The...
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We have to inhabit other planets: Gary Johnson offers libertarian solution to climate change
2016-09-25 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rawstory: Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson suggested on Sunday that climate change could not be stopped and that the solution was for the human race to "inhabit other planets." During an interview on ABC`s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos reminded Johnson that he had warned in 2011 that global warming was "in our future" because the sun would eventually "grow and encompass the Earth." "Does that mean we don`t do anything about it now?" Stephanopoulos wondered. "No, come on,"...
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