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Axa: climate risks should not be neglected from investment decisions

2015-01-16 13:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: Despite arguments that climate change is not a financially material risk in the short and medium term, asset manager Axa has warned investors not to exclude climate risks from their investment decisions. The asset manager, one of the largest in Europe, noted that some in the investment industry are under the illusion that climate risks are a long way off because of signals from carbon markets, a robust climate change deal has yet to be agreed and scientists suggesting temperatures will not rise...

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Market year average prices affect farm program decisions

2015-01-06 22:02:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

One of the key components for farm operators to understand as they evaluate the new farm program options is the concept of Market Year Average (MYA) price. The MYA price for a given crop year is used to calculate any potential payments for all three farm program options: Price Loss Coverage (PLC), Ag Risk Coverage-County (ARC-CO), and Ag Risk Coverage-Individual (ARC-IC). The historical MYA prices are also used to determine the benchmark revenues for both the ARC-CO and ARC-IC program options. Focus on Ag read more

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Lima climate talks: Tough decisions deferred as UN meeting winds up

2014-12-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: Negotiators in Peru are racing to reach an agreement in the dying hours of the United Nations climate change talks and have been forced to defer many of the tough decisions until next year. The scramble came as the Abbott Government was accused of "creative accounting" in the way it reported emissions from land clearing and forestry in a new study by German-based research organisation Climate Action Tracker. Australia also took the award of the "colossal fossil" from environment groups as the...

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2014 farm bill decisions: The choice of ARC or PLC, and more

2014-12-08 22:55:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

The process of enrolling in either the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) program or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program, which began in October and runs through spring, requires farmers to update their base acres and yields, then make a one-time decision for the program they will use for the next five years. read more

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