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17.10.2012
Kesko is the sector's best in the Nordic climate index
Kesko has been awarded the highest score in the 'Consumer Staples' sector in the Nordic Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. The index comprises the Nordic companies which have displayed the most professional approach regarding climate change information disclosure practices. Kesko was included for the second consecutive time in the index consisting of the best 26 Nordic companies.
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16.10.2012
EU parliament sticks to slow carbon reform timetable
EU politicians have ignored European Commission efforts to hasten plans to bolster the bloc's carbon trading scheme (ETS), in which prices have plunged under a burden of surplus allowances generated by recession, EU sources said on Tuesday.
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16.10.2012
Indonesia to double efforts at climate conference
The Indonesian government is expected to double down on its efforts on the climate-change issue by sending more delegates to the upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar, slated for between Nov. 26 and Dec. 7.
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15.10.2012
Australian Ski Industry to Banish Due to Global Climate Change?
Skiing aficionados who often go to Australia to experience the resource-rich nation's ski resorts and alpine regions may be forced to scout other locations in the coming years as the worsening global climate change could kill the Australian ski industry by year 2020.
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15.10.2012
First Climate Change Summit for Fiji
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is stepping up its awareness campaign on climate change with a first ever National Climate Change Summit to be held in Labasa next week.
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14.10.2012
A climate change call to arms
THE OFFICIAL START OF WINTER may still be more than two months away, but in New England, we should be watching the long-term forecasts. Despite predictions for a snowy winter, the season’s temperatures have been rising over the long term. And the implications of climate change for this region’s economy — including how we play on and earn our livings from the snow — are enormous.
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12.10.2012
Adapting to climate change key to survival’
Bangladesh’s leading environment expert has said the country needs to adapt to climate variability on an urgent basis as climate change and climate variability are now real.
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11.10.2012
Global warming means more Antarctic ice
The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world, that spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-made climate change, scientists say.
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09.10.2012
How temp talk could doom climate treaty
At the much-heralded climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009, world leaders agreed to limit manmade global warming to less than two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The agreement at Copenhagen, however, and in multiple rounds of subsequent negotiations, hasn’t led countries to make actual commitments to the kind of emissions reductions that would put the world on a path to meeting that two degree target.
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09.10.2012
Climate change, tourism threatening mountains
A combination of climate change and booming tourism could cause famous mountain spots in Southwest China's Yunnan province to lose their snow, authorities and experts have warned.
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08.10.2012
Why Obama must win
The results of this US election will be critical to the Australian efforts to reduce emissions whether an Australian government is led by the Labor or Liberal parties.
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