Big business 'failing to disclose climate risks' to investors

guardian.co.uk, UK
The world's major corporations are failing to provide a full account to investors of the risks and potential costs of climate change, a new report said today. The report, from the Ceres network of green organisations and investors, and the Environment ...
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Mexico sees support for UN climate finance plan

Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN, Germany, June 3 (Reuters) - A Mexican proposal to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change is winning backing in talks on a new UN treaty, paradoxically because no one really likes it, ...
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It is our responsibility to combat climate change

Daily Monitor, Uganda
This is a significant statement that remains powerful to date, not just for Americans but you and I, especially at this time when climate change is threatening our livelihoods and development efforts. As we commemorate World Environment Day, ...
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The world has warmed

Business Mirror, Philippines
Meanwhile, climate scientists say that changes in the polar ice sheets could raise sea levels by a meter or more by 2100. The implications could be severe, they warn. Ten percent of the world's population-about 600 million people-live in vulnerable ...
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Origin of Antarctic ice revealed

BBC News, UK
Sun Bo from the Polar Research Institute of China, who led this study, has now provided further insight into the evolution of the ice sheet. He and his colleagues travelled 1235km (767 miles) by tractor train from a research station at the edge of East ...
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UN climate treaty talks to go down to wire

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Around 190 nations will gather in Copenhagen in December to try to agree a global pact to fight climate change. Hedegaard will be President of the conference. It is envisaged that rich countries will agree to cut CO2 emissions below 1990 levels and ...
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Japan on the Hot Seat at Bonn Climate Change Talks

TPMCafe, NY
UN-sponsored climate change talks began on Monday in Bonn. The negotiations will last two weeks and represent a step on the path towards a successor to the Kyoto agreement scheduled to be completed by December. While the negotiations are underway many ...
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Fossil Teeth Hint at Animal Adaptation to Global Warming

Wired News
By Brandon Keim Amidst predictions of global warming-driven global extinctions, a dietary analysis of ancient teeth suggests that animals may prove more adaptable than expected. The tale of the teeth, collected at two sites in Florida and spanning a ...
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Global Warming Conference: More Scientific Dissent

Heritage.org, DC
Dr. Craig Idso, is the founder and chairman of the Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. He addresses concerns about global warming and marine life, including the death of the coral reefs and other underwater ecosystems.
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Poland, Hungary May Become More Like Sicily in Global Warming

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By Alex Morales June 2 (Bloomberg) -- The climate in Poland and Hungary may become more like that of Spain and Sicily by mid-century as global warming takes hold, the World Bank said. The two eastern European countries are likely to experience 37 "hot" ...
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Growing climate change may escalate ME conflict

United Press International
JERUSALEM, June 3 (UPI) -- Growing climate change and lack of water could spur further conflict and security concerns in the Middle East, a Danish environmental report warns. Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories ...
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Climate change hoax

Northwest Herald, IL
Global climate change is a complete hoax. It is the biggest con ever pulled on the world. The climate always has changed since the earth was formed. We are in a cooling trend for the last five years and will continue until the next century.
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Global warming as the worst science fiction--Earth 2100 makes ...

Examiner.com
By presenting a fictional account of future global warming, they will make it far more difficult to do what we do need to do to combat global warming. The greenhouse effect is real. CO2 does push up temperatures. Global warming has been occurring since ...
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Pelosi takes reins on climate change

The Hill, DC
has quickly taken charge of moving climate change legislation through the House, which will be one of the toughest challenges of her political career. Earlier this year, Pelosi said she was not involved in the day-to-day happenings on the controversial ...
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Cyclones, global warming linkage found

United Press International
NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 2 (UPI) -- Harvard University scientists say they've discovered a possible link between the development of tropical cyclones and global warming. David Romps and Zhiming Kuang of Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary ...
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ABC Global Warming Special Makes Up Future But It's Not 'Sci-Fi'

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Using predictions from top experts, we will brief participants on global conditions in the years 2015, 2050, 2070 and 2100 - and we want you to describe the dangers that are unfolding before your eyes. " The Media Research Center submitted a video and ...
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Pelosi Cites Optimism On Climate-Change Bill After China Trip

NASDAQ, New York
By PATRICK YOEST, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Tuesday expressed optimism about China's progress on climate-change issues and the likelihood that Congress will have climate-change legislation ...
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Climate change threatens African farmland -study

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By Jasmin Melvin WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Climate change could cost the African continent more farmland than the United States uses to plant its eight major field crops combined, according to a study published in the June issue of Environmental ...
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Pelosi Received In China With Pomp And Circumstance

Talk Radio News Service, DC
And in our own country, we saw the impact of climate change and of the global warming crisis. We saw that the polar cap is melting, the thermal control of the planet is affected��� It is urgent to meet the issue of global warming crisis," said Pelosi ...
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Woodside remains optimistic on LNG despite downturn

EnergyCurrent, TX
Growing concern about greenhouse gas emissions is underpinning demand for LNG as a cleaner source of energy. More emissions efficient than all other fossil fuels, LNG is the fuel that is helping the global economy transition to a low carbon future.
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Waiting for Sotomayor: 3-year delay in greenhouse gas case

CNN International
She was the presiding judge in a case involving state claims against power companies over greenhouse gas emissions. The case was filed in the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in September 2005. Sotomayor was one of three judges who heard oral arguments ...
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SAVE OUR PLANET?

Canada.com, Canada
Each new piece of scientific data makes it clearer that we're running out of time to take action on climate change. So the question is: are we at the beginning of a global revolution or the beginning of the end? It begs a speedy answer.
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Examiner.com's exclusive global warming debates: Roger Pielke Sr ...

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In the third of our global warming debates, and hot on the heels of yesterday's interview with Professor Stephen Schneider (which has several comments on the work of today's interviewee) we are happy to present Part 1 of our interview with Dr. Roger ...
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Rangel Says Climate Bill Takes Priority in House

Wall Street Journal
"I may have misspoke, until we say we've got to do climate change," Mr. Rangel said. "We've got a head of steam with the health bill," Mr. Rangel said. He said the order in which the House considers health, climate, or trade bills is less important.
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EU greenhouse gases decline due to warmer weather not cap-and ...

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Falling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in EU is not the result of the European emission trading system, this is at least the conclusion of the European Environment Agency's (EEA) greenhouse gas emissions inventory report released Friday.
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Burger King says "Global Warming is Baloney" signs have been removed

Memphis Flyer, TN
The Burger King Corporation (BKC) seems to be in denial regarding the decision by Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC), a Memphis-based management company with more then 40 Burger King locations across the Mid-South, to place the words "Global Warming ...
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GOP Governor Defends Against Obama's Imperialist Global Warming Policy

OpEdNews, PA
The GOP had Mitch Daniels deliver a weekly address recently where he came out against the Waxman-Markey legislation (the Obama Administration's and Congress' answer to concerns over global warming). He condemned the establishment of a cap-and-trade ...
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Alarm raised over forest plan to fight climate change

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BOGOR, Indonesia (AFP) - An ambitious plan to fight climate change by making polluters pay to preserve forests has come under a cloud, with some environmentalists calling it unworkable and dangerous. The plan, known as Reduced Emissions from ...
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Former Soviet bloc in firing line of climate change: World Bank

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PARIS (AFP) - The countries of the former Soviet bloc face huge challenges in the next decade to avoid the worst ravages of climate change, the World Bank warned on Tuesday. From Poland to Kazakhstan, from the Arctic circle to the Caucasus, ...
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State scientists unite against climate change

Detroit Free Press, United States
BY KNUTE NADELHOFFER ��� GUEST BLOGGER ��� June 2, 2009 Climate change is a serious and immediate threat to Michigan's way of life and our economy. Long-term records show that Michigan's climate has changed markedly during recent decades.
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Investors Must Lead Efforts to Reduce Climate Change Risks

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by Robert Kropp Report by the United Nations Global Compact finds opportunities in a transition to a low-carbon economy to be challenged by the urgency of climate change risks. socialfunds.com -- The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that in ...
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Key climate negotiations under way

United Press International
BONN, Germany, June 2 (UPI) -- Negotiations on a global climate change treaty began Monday in Bonn, Germany. Delegates from more than 180 countries meeting in the western German city are hammering out the details of a treaty to succeed the Kyoto ...
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What a difference a little ampersand makes for Beijing

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
He applied the dictum not just to resolving the world financial crisis but the "entire range" of issues, from climate change, global trade and the thorny diplomatic issues of Pakistan and North Korea. His respectful, even ingratiating tone, ...
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Science academies urge CO2 cuts to protect oceans, reefs

New York Times, United States
"At current emission rates models suggest that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or potentially even earlier," they wrote. Some climate models suggest that, at current CO2 emissions levels, 80 percent of Arctic ...
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A&M-College Station Studies Global Warming Effects On Hurricanes

KRIS-TV, TX
The study released on the first day of the new hurricane season predicts that global warming could have a major impact on the intensity of major storms and their effect on coastal cities, including Corpus Christi. The study is based on certain ...
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A Rogue Burger King Says "Global Warming Is Baloney"

The Business Insider, NY
A reporter in Tennessee noticed his local Burger King had a sign out front declaring "Global Warming Is Baloney." He tried to figure out if that was the official stance of Burger King, or just a franchise gone rogue. Turns out it's a franchise gone ...
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Energy from pig slurry helps fight climate change

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As the world struggles to reduce pollution causing climate change, attention has focused on the burning of fossil fuels in factories, power stations, and vehicles. But UN scientists says farming and forestry account for more than 30 percent of the ...
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Study finds climate change boosts Tex storm flood risk

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Climate change over the next 20 to 70 years can be expected to increase hurricane flooding in Corpus Christi, Texas, home of three US refineries, according to a study by Texas A&M University sponsored by the National Commission on ...
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Science academies: ocean acidification must be on CO2 agenda

Ars Technica, MA
The authors state that, at current rates of CO 2 emissions, ecosystems in polar waters will be under severe stress within the next 50 years. They recognize that some species will do well in the changed conditions; for example, a recent study shows that ...
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Australia may breach Kyoto greenhouse targets

NEWS.com.au, Australia
The Government's National Greenhouse Gas Accounts, released this week, show Australia emitted 553 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2008. That's short of the Kyoto cap, which is 559 million tonnes, but emissions have been rising by 1.5 per cent a ...
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Ottawa voiceless on climate change

Toronto Star,  Canada
The intensive preparations in provincial capitals would be laudable if not for the reality that something is sorely missing: a truly national response to the global spectre of climate change. After more than three years in power, ...
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Coming Clean on Going Green

BusinessWeek
In 2002 a group of investors banded together to ask companies to come clean on greenhouse gas emissions. Known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, the group has grown to 475 in 2009 from 35 in 2002 and has a combined asset base of $55 trillion.
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Biomass Power Generates Traction

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While greenhouse gas is released when biomass is burned, the process is considered nearly carbon neutral because the plants only emit the carbon they absorbed while they were growing. The plants would release the same amount of greenhouse gas if they ...
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Pro-Con | Is global warming real and threatening the planet?

Kansas City Star, MO
... which is why the polar ice caps are melting. And the scientific community - real scientists, not those who work for industry or right-wing think tanks - is united ��� in the belief in climate change and its connection to excessive carbon output.
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Burger Kings Deny Global Warming

MyFox Chattanooga, TN
By ANTHONY BARTKEWICZ Several Burger King restaurants in and around Memphis, Tenn., were seen displaying the message "Global warming is baloney" on their signs, according to the Memphis Flyer. The Memphis Flyer's Chris Davis spoke with an employee at ...
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Climate talks move into next phase

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The US delegation wanted the text to put all countries on a more equal footing, requiring every country to take action to fight climate change according to its capability. Developing countries said the draft failed to take adequate account of their ...
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Dolphin and whale climate fears

BBC News, UK
Dr macleod, said: "In the past, the main concern was for the small number of polar species likely to be affected by a decline in sea ice. However, this new study shows that there are many more species to be worried about.
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World's next big climate pact begins to take shape

Christian Science Monitor
The protocol, which formally took force last year, calls on industrial countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by a combined average of 5.5 percent below 1990 levels. The timetable and topics the new treaty must cover were set out at global ...
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US climate bill best bet to take enviro lead: Chu

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By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US climate change bill making its way through Congress is the best legislative bet to help the country take the lead in tackling global warming on the world stage, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on ...
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US Fuel Efficiency Policy

Voice of America
In May, President Barack Obama set in motion a new national policy aimed at both increasing fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks in the United States. The new standards covering automobile model years 2012 to ...
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