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Q U I Z - Climate Change vs. Economic Growth
2015-12-02 17:18:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Is It an "Either - Or" Proposition A choice between fighting carbon emissions and economic growth? read more
Exxon case revives the debate over corporate climate disclosures
2015-12-02 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Public corporations are supposed to warn investors about the risk to their businesses from climate change, but the tone and wording of those disclosures vary widely among big U.S. manufacturing, automotive and energy companies, according to company documents, and legal and corporate governance experts. Pressure on companies to inform investors about risks associated with climate change was intensifying even before New York state's attorney general disclosed last month that he was investigating...
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Paris climate summit: Earth may warm by 6°C even with deal
2015-12-02 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The offers on the table for the UN`s climate summit in Paris this month are not enough to limit warming to 2 °C, a level considered to be relatively safe. But a series of recent analyses suggest a deal could put us on course to keep warming below 3.7 °C - perhaps as low as 2.7 °C. The analyses are based on the actions countries are prepared to take, known as their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. These only cover the period up to 2030, and many are very vague, so a host of assumptions...
Paris UN Climate Conference 2015: $1Tln in funds exit fossil fuels in 10 weeks
2015-12-02 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: More than 100 institutions controlling $US800 billion ($1.09 trillion) in funds worldwide have opted to make new divestments of at least some of their fossil fuel assets in the 10 weeks running up to the Paris climate summit, according to campaign groups 350.org and Divest-Invest. The tally brings to $US3.4 trillion the amount of funds under management by firms that support at least a partial sell-off of their holdings of coal, oil or other fossil fuels. The latest to sign up range from the City...
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Exxon Targets Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Cover Up
2015-12-02 16:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: ExxonMobil has launched a full-throttled "bully" campaign against the graduate students who recently unmasked its scandalous climate change cover-up threatening to pull funds from the university that helped bring to light its dangerous and "most consequential" lies. In a letter addressed to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and obtained by Politico, the oil giant`s vice president of Public and Government Affairs accuses a team of investigative journalism students of violating the school`s...
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