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Investors worth $800bn back Obamas US emissions reduction plan
2014-06-03 10:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A group of 128 companies and 49 investors, worth $800 billion in assets, has sent letters of support to Barack Obama, backing the presidents new guidelines unveiled on Monday to cut pollution from power plants. Signatories of the letters include multinational businesses Unilever, Starbucks, Nike, Adidas, Mars and Ben & Jerrys and leading investors Calvert Investments, F&C Management and Impax Asset Management US. They have expressed support for the new rules which were announced by the US Environmental...
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Drought brings California gold prospectors back life
2014-06-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: David Fiori, waist-deep in the chilly Kern River, braced against the current, stabbed a shovel into the ancient silt between his feet and tossed the muck downstream. His eyes, though, wandered to a potential prize - a spot on the opposite bank of the river. To the uninitiated, it looked like just another leafy bend in the 165-mile-long Kern, which carries the snowmelt of the Sierra Nevada toward the sea. But prospectors have had a different sort of perspective in this stretch of California for...
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VIDEO: Is 'made in Britain' bouncing back?
2014-06-01 13:49:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC's Emma Simpson says there are signs that textile businesses are shifting back to the UK.
Obama step forward on carbon undone by Chinas steps back
2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obama is set to take his boldest step to halt the rise of the oceans and stop the warming of the planet. It wont be enough unless the rest of the world follows. Trimming carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by 25 percent in coming decades, as Obama is said to be proposing, would be more than overwhelmed by increases in China and India where coal-fired power plants are springing up and new cars are rolling out of showrooms. Its not a magic bullet, Alden Meyer, director...
Low-Carb Diets Are Back, but for National Governments
2014-05-30 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Judging only by U.S. political debates about climate change, a reasonable person might conclude that the world was still stuck at square one when it comes to cutting carbon. The situation is nowhere near that dire. The world is stuck at square two. Around the globe, 39 nations either price carbon emissions, or are close to doing so. There are also 23 sub-national programs in state or provincial governments. Carbon markets are worth about $30 billion and pricing programs cover 12 percent of global...
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