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Final climate change deal keeps emissions in check, if it sticks
2015-12-12 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Engadget: After weeks of work, the United Nations is on the cusp of reaching a deal to prevent climate change... hopefully. A just-published final draft agreement sets some clear targets that include a hefty amount of cooperation. The deal would limit the global temperature increase to "well below" 2 Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and reach a balance in greenhouse gas emissions (that is, as many offsets as there are emitters) by the second half of this century. There would be a progress review every...
World leaders adopt 1.5 C goal damn well going to hold them to it
2015-12-12 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Heres the crucial plaintive paragraph from the preamble to the Paris climate agreement released today, written in the almost indecipherable bureaucratese that attends this international circus: Emphasizing with serious concern the urgent need to address the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with holding the increase in the global average temperature...
Digital Transformation: Bridging Business and IT
2015-12-11 21:01:12| Appliances - Topix.net
For Niels Aillaud, chief digital officer of Whirlpool Corp., digital transformation means using technology to better understand customers. He spoke with Knowledge@Wharton at the "Fast Forward: Executive Strategies for Personal Digital Transformation" conference, sponsored by Mphasis.
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A Hedge Fund Founder Says Abe's Activist Army Is Doing It Wrong
2015-12-11 16:50:35| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Jamie Rosenwald, who's been buying Japanese shares since 1972, says short-sighted activists are failing to make the most of one of the biggest opportunities for investors in decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's governance overhaul is about getting executives to invest excess capital, not just give it back to shareholders, says the co-founder of the $3.3 billion Dalton Investments.
Americans weaned themselves off oil in the 1970s. We can do it again
2015-12-11 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Americans are capable of dramatically changing their energy use. And our political leaders can take decisive, bipartisan action on global environmental problems. This is not just wishful thinking. We know this because they have done so before in response to the 1970s oil crisis. Before the crisis, the federal government had no real energy policy. Decades of cheap oil helped fuel the economic boom after the second world war. Until the early 1970s, few policymakers believed this would change....
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