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Network analysis shows systemic risk in mineral markets
2015-11-16 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A shortage of a rare mineral could spur global market instabilities, according to a new analysis of international commodity trade networks. Shortages of natural resources--minerals such as copper, aluminum, and mercury--could lead to cascading shocks and lead to instabilities in the global trade system, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances. Mineral resources are increasingly important in the production of modern devices such as mobile phones and medical technologies....
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United Kingdom: Severe weather puts hundreds Cumbrian homes at risk of flooding
2015-11-15 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Police have warned motorists in Cumbria to drive only if absolutely necessary after torrential rain left roads flooded and put more than 1,000 homes at risk. The Environment Agency has issued six severe flood warnings its highest level of alert and emergency reception centres were set up in Kendal and Egremont. But Dave Hughes, the chairman of Kendal Mountain Rescue, said not everyone had been willing to leave their homes. Some people decided to stay at home. You can understand that...
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Climate Risk May Hit Portfolios Hard Now, Cambridge Study Finds
2015-11-14 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Equity portfolios may lose as much as 45 percent of their value due to shifting investor sentiment about climate change, according to a report by Cambridge Universitys Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Investors are becoming more aware of the short-term impact that the warming planet may have upon financial markets, affecting the value of holdings in portfolios modeled over five years, according to the report released Thursday. Equity portfolios lost almost half their value, and fixed...
Corn's "risk to reward" potential
2015-11-13 21:48:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Without a major weather story out of South America or some type of unforeseen bullish geopolitical event, I suspect the bears will simply remain up to bat and the cycle of lower-highs and lower-lows will continue. Grain Market Viewpoint read more
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Hinkley Point nuclear plan puts survival of EDF at risk, say employee shareholders
2015-11-13 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: EDFs 18bn project to build two nuclear reactors in Hinkley Point, Britain, is so expensive and so risky that it puts the survival of the French utility at risk, an association of employee-shareholders said on Thursday. EDF Actionnariat salarié (EAS) said in a statement that the interests of EDF are gravely threatened by the Hinkley Point project, which it calls a financial catastrophy foretold in which EDF has nothing to gain and everything to lose. EAS asks the management of EDF to stop...
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