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Feds tell Exxon Mobil to allow climate change vote
2016-03-24 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Exxon Mobil Corp. must allow its shareholds to vote on a proposal to receive more information about climate changes impact on the oil giants business. The Securities and Exchange Commission told Exxon this week that it must include the resolution among the slate of proposals shareholders will vote on in May, Reuters reported Thursday. The proposal would have the company outline the way climate change and energy legislation impact its ability to operate profitably. "It does not appear that...
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New methodology for adapting Mediterranean basins to the demands of climate change
2016-03-24 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The paper, published in Global Environmental Change, is the result of a research project designed to establish selection criteria when choosing what climate change actions to take, based on economic and environmental principles. Evaluating all options before embarking on expensive projects By means of an optimisation model, the system selects the best combination of actions based on the nature of the basin, demand planning forecasts, economic factors and different plausible climate change scenarios....
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Exxon Mobil must give shareholders climate vote, regulator rules
2016-03-24 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered Exxon Mobil to give shareholders a vote on how it discloses climate risk data. The oil major had sought to block a shareholder resolution that would make it reveal how climate action could hit its profits. Exxon argued it already gave enough information. That was overruled by the regulator, as explained in a letter dated Tuesday 22 March. It found Exxon was not doing as much as investors including New York State`s pension fund and the Church...
Framing climate risk: We need more few magic words
2016-03-24 11:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: As years of heads being banged against brick walls can attest, climate change doesnt communicate itself. For the vast majority of us who are not scientists, climate change is always mediated in some way filtered through a campaigners rhetoric, a newspapers editorial stance, or through the social media hall of mirrors. Everything we read, see and hear about climate change is communicated by someone, and that person (or organisation) comes loaded with cultural baggage. Do we trust them?...
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Switzerland approves Paris Agreement, outlines strategy to meet climate pledge
2016-03-24 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Carbon Pulse: Switzerlands Federal Council on Wednesday approved the Paris Agreement and outlined its strategy for meeting its carbon reduction pledge, setting it up as one of a handful of nations intending to make substantial use of international credits. The Councils approval paves the way for the countrys parliament to ratify the agreement and Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard to sign it along with other world leaders on Apr. 22 in New York. In a release on the Swiss environment ministrys website, the...
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