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Decisive Moment for Global Transparency Effort

Posted by Human Rights Watch on 08/03/2010

(Washington, DC) - An international initiative that seeks to promote more openness about how countries profit from their oil, gas, and mining resources should not weaken its modest membership standards because governments are unable or unwilling to meet them, Human Rights Watch said today. read m ...

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Shareholder Climate Resolutions Up 40%

Posted by Environmental Leader on 04/03/2010

U.S. investor groups have filed 95 global warming shareholder resolutions with public corporations, a 40 percent increase over last year, according to a press release from the Investor Network on Climate Risk.The resolutions, lodged with 82 U.S. and Canadian companies, seek a range of concessions ...

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Room for Improvement in e-Waste Recycling

Posted by Environmental Leader on 03/03/2010

The rising sales of consumer electronics in developing countries will have dire consequences on their environment and public health, according to a report from The United Nations Environment Programme, reports GEEP Michigan.The report finds that over the next decade there will be a significant in ...

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Bill Gates Calls for Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

Posted by Environmental Leader on 01/03/2010

At TED2010, Bill Gates discussed his vision for the world’s energy future, and why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. Gates said the world needs to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050 to avoid planetary catastrophe.

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World’s Biggest Companies Cause $2.2 Trillion in Environmental Damage

Posted by Environmental Leader on 22/02/2010

The estimated cost of environmental damage by 3,000 of the world’s biggest companies is about $2.2 trillion in 2008, according to a report to be released this summer, reports The Guardian. The biggest single impact was greenhouse gas emissions, which accounts for more than half of the total ...

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