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UK Report: Just 30% of Carbon Offset Dollars Spent on Emissions Reduction

Posted by Environmental Leader on 08/12/2009

Overhead and profit-taking in the carbon offsets system eats up about 70 percent of what is spent on carbon offsets, according to a report from UK-based Carbon Retirement report.About 30 percent of the funds go into actual projects that reduce emissions, such as a wind farm in a developing nation ...

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WWF to Screen Forest Carbon Investments

Posted by Environmental Leader on 26/10/2009

WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) plans to launch investment screening guidelines for financial investors in the upcoming months to encourage support for responsible forest finance. WWF believes failure by the world’s financial leaders to support responsible forest financ ...

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Investors Pressure GM, Boeing, Deere, Xerox to Quit U.S. Chamber

Posted by Environmental Leader on 14/10/2009

Trying to ramp up pressure on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its position on climate change, an investors group has fired off letters to 14 major U.S. corporations, asking them to publicly distance themselves from the chamber’s positions.Representing $16 billion in assets, the investors g ...

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Time to Tear Down the Wall of Caste

Posted by Human Rights Watch on 09/10/2009

(New York) - Governments in countries with caste systems should respond to the call from a top UN official to end this form of discrimination, Human Rights Watch, the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), and the International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) said today. read more

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Whirlpool to Produce 1M Smart Energy Dryers by 2011

Posted by Environmental Leader on 29/09/2009

Whirlpool Corp. will produce one million smart-energy clothes dryers by the end of 2011 as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant program. These dryers could save consumers $20 to $40 per year in markets where utilities offer variable or time-of-use pricin ...

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