Sunday, March 14th, 2010
BEIJING — China sought Sunday to deflate rising pressure from the U.S. and other powers over Chinese economic policies and growing assertiveness in world affairs, with its prime minister promising cooperation to bolster the global recovery.
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China Defends Trade Policy, Blames U.S. For Tensions
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Bill Maher called the environment the “ultimate health care issue” Friday night during “Real Time” and argued that our future depends on our ability to stop global warming. But some on his panel weren’t so convinced
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Bill Maher: The Environment Is The Ultimate Health Care Issue (VIDEO)
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
UNITED NATIONS — At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world’s most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations’ Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel. “We enter this process with no preconceived conclusions,” said Robbert Dijkgraaf, a Dutch mathematical physicist who co-chairs the group, the InterAcademy Council of 15 nations’ national academies of science. U.N
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U.N. Climate Panel To Be Reviewed By Scientific Groups
Friday, March 5th, 2010
The tiny island nation of the Maldives is under serious threat from rising sea levels caused by climate change. No part of the 1200 islands which make up the Maldives is more than six feet above sea level, so as sea-levels rise (as they will if rampant climate change is not stopped), the entire nation will be under water.
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Maldives Will Fight Rising Sea Levels With Floating Islands
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Last week, Treehugger and ThinkProgress reported that the South Dakota state legislature passed a resolution to urge schools to teach climate science and facts about global warming as “astrological” and “cosmological” theories rather than hard science. This is a similar argument that creationists and proponents of intelligent design have used to encourage that their beliefs should be taught in schools. On Thursday, the New York Times reports that legislatures or boards of education in Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas have also suggested that climate change be treated like one theory in a spectrum of beliefs
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Creationists And Climate Deniers Take On Teaching Climate Science In Schools
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.
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Al Gore: IPCC Mistakes Don’t Change ‘The Reality Of The Danger We Are Courting’
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Inhofe didn’t get as much attention as he might have hoped for during his December visit to Copenhagen to denounce climate treaty negotiations, but he tried to reclaim the stage this week during a Senate hearing that addressed EPA’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gases. He argued that “the science of the IPCC … has been totally discredited” and unveiled an 84-page report titled ‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy
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James Inhofe Interview: Senate’s Top Skeptic Explains His Climate Theory
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Vermont senator fires stringent rhetorical shot in debate over climate change.
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THE POLITICO: Bernie Sanders compares climate skeptics to Nazi deniers
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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EPA Backs Down From Greenhouse Gas Regulation: Lawmakers Relieved
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
As amazing as it may seem, many organizations are still not \”on board\” when it comes to the issue of corporate sustainability. Many see this as just another \”buzzword\” and have not taken the issue to heart. In truth, an organization that does not realize how important this matter is to its very survival is doomed to failure unless it acts and acts relatively quickly. This is not about the \”green\” movement any more, but a fact of corporate life.
The SEC carbon disclosure finding was issued in early February and caught many public companies off their guard. Opinion had been growing around the country however and pressure groups had already submitted several petitions to the Securities and Exchange Commission over the years. While the Commission was not seen to be very active during the previous administration, an important clarification has now been issued and corporate action is expected.
The SEC carbon disclosure finding means that companies have a clear responsibility to disclose anything related to climate matters as \”material.\” This is fundamental to the decision-making process of investors. In other words, now that carbon related issues have been classified in this way, companies may no longer be vague and it will not be acceptable for them to say that climate issues are \”unknown.\”
Many developments have occurred in the last year or so with regard to corporate level sustainability. we could certainly have been disappointed by the outcome of the Copenhagen Summit, but we must have noted that the American Clean Energy and Security Act was passed by the House of Representatives. The EPA made a landmark ruling that greenhouse gases were a hazard to public health and Pres. Obama took a direct Executive Order and mandated that major Government agencies become sustainable quickly.
While the ACES Act passed by the House of Representatives has yet to be discussed at the Senate level and it seems unclear whether it will ever be passed into law in its current form, few would doubt that some kind of significant legislation is in the corporate future. The SEC carbon disclosure finding should only emphasize to corporate chiefs that they must act immediately to put their house in order and review all operations from the point of view of sustainability.
The SEC carbon disclosure finding requires organizations that trade publicly to include material climate change related information within their annual reports. For example, should a company rely heavily on fossil fuel based energy for its operations, any pending emission regulations could be detrimental to its future. Major weather events, potentially linked to climate change could affect the company\’s portfolio of interests elsewhere.
Does the SEC carbon disclosure requirement have any teeth? If it is interpretive guidance and the company is not bound by its findings, you could nevertheless argue that the company that does not act proactively could be seen to be ducking the issue.
Each and every organization must be sustainable and this theme should run throughout the decision-making process. When greenhouse gases are emitted as a consequence of using energy, the user is responsible. Legislation is sure to await those who fail to see this and if a company does not look at the impact of emissions in both its supply chain and its direct operations, it could face reputational difficulties.
Daniel Stouffer has a lot of information about SEC carbon disclosure and how a visit to www.verisae.com will be of use to you.
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AMSTERDAM — Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal. His departure takes effect July 1, five months before 193 nations are due to reconvene in Mexico for another attempt to reach a binding worldwide accord on controlling greenhouse gases.
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Yvo de Boer, UN Climate Chief, Resigns To Work For KPMG
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Microsoft founder Bill Gates took on climate change during his TED Talk Friday. He told those at the technology conference that climate change will cause poverty and famine that will disproportionately affect the world’s poorest people.
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Bill Gates’ TED Speech 2010: Climate Change Is Bigger Issue Than Vaccine Development
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Amidst high unemployment, hundreds of thousands of women have entered the workforce during the recession. They are wives and stay-at-home moms who found new jobs, added hours or became sole breadwinners of their families to keep their loved ones financially afloat, the Washington Post reports. In Silver Spring, musician Alison Crockett continues to work three part-time jobs, even though she had hoped to be with her infant daughter…Crockett, who recently gave birth to her second child, intended to scale back on her hours as a teacher and musician to be with her baby
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Moms And Wives Fill Family Financial Gaps In Recession
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
A new study suggests that, in certain parts of the country, total emissions would actually be lower if there weren’t any lawns. More on Climate Change
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Lawns May Contribute to Global Warming, Study Says
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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How To Install A Drip Irrigation System (VIDEO)
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