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Bureau releases Natural Resource Packet for Planning and Sustainability Commission
2013-01-23 01:51:41| PortlandOnline
Packet to provide background and discussion information for January 29th
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Pensions could be "wiped out" by resource shortages, actuaries warn
2013-01-23 01:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Shortages of water, metals, and other crucial resources could see pensions "wiped out and reduced to negligible levels", according to new research. Such constraints are not currently being factored into standard economic modelling even though they have had a significant impact in the past, the paper by Anglia Ruskin University's Global Sustainability Institute finds. Commissioned by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, the report models how resource constraints will affect investment and...
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Resource Scarcity Drives Singapore to Sustainability Leadership
2013-01-22 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: With more than half of the worlds population now urban, cities are natural venues for business, government and community efforts to identify key economic drivers of the early 21st century. Cities have the scale to effect real environmental change and -- in many cases unlike their national governments -- the political will to do so. Singapore has become an internationally recognized leader among global cities, for its forward-looking policy goals and strong execution. The southeast Asian city-state...
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Canadian resource firms step up legal fight against green groups
2013-01-22 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Risks are growing for climate and environmental activists who take a stand against Canadian firms involved in the resource extraction and energy businesses, because companies are increasingly using the law to fight back. On Dec. 5 2012, lawyers for EthicalOil.org, a lobby group that supports the exploitation of oil sands, sent a fax to the Canada Revenue Agency alleging that the Sierra Club of Canada Foundation was flouting tax laws and urging the agency to investigate. EthicalOil.org has hit...
Climate change and resource scarcity may wipe out pensions industry
2013-01-18 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: How could actuarial professionals, tasked with risk management in the financial sector and beyond, have ignored the biggest risk humanity has ever faced? It's difficult to get one's head around, but the simple fact is that actuaries have so far failed to even begin to factor into their financial models the impacts of climate change and resource scarcity, apart from a narrow focus in some insurance products related to direct weather impacts. This is despite the fact that the issues have been known...
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