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In Global Warming Debate, Insurers Play it Cool

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Both sides embroiled in the political debate over climate change will find proof for their positions in data collected by the insurance industr...

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Environment

Experts discover new greenhouse gas

Scientists in Canada on Tuesday announced the discovery of a greenhouse gas with unprecedented potential to warm the Earth, and said the chemical has been lurking...

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Environment

Climate-friendly investments key in sustainable development

Businesses that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote renewable energy, and other such agenda that help lessen climate change impact took the spotlight at a fringe event...

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Environment

Warsaw - All nations agree to Carbon Dioxide Emission targets

For the first time, all countries of the world have agreed to make contributions in cutting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the planet?s temperature rising above the 2?...

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Environment

Corporates cause two third of global warming emissions

The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated...

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Environment

Small Farmers & Climate Change

“Farmers have been adapting for centuries and so there is a lot they can already do,” wrote Vincent Vadez, principal scientist with the International Crops Rese...

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Environment

‘Loss and damage’ : Highlight of the Warsaw climate talks

A day prior to the the formal inauguration of the U.N. climate negotiations, delegates from over 190 countries started informal parleys for setting up common positions and ...

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Environment

UN Environment Programme states an increase in global green house gas emissions by 2020 (Emissions Gap report 2013)

The United Nations says it is “less and less likely” that global greenhouse gas emissions will be low enough by 2020 to stop the atmosphere warming beyond the i...

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Sustainable Development

GE Generates $25 Billion in Revenues from Sustainability Investments

Last year, General Electric invested nearly $2 billion in research and development for sustainability innovation and generated some $25 billion in revenue, according to the...

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Sustainable Development

Global Waste on Pace to Triple by 2100

The amount of garbage humans throw away is rising fast and won’t peak this century without transformational changes in how we use and reuse materials, write former Wo...

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