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Top 10 Excuses for Being Late to a RECon Meeting
2014-05-09 22:43:00| National Real Estate Investor
With the biggest retail real estate convention of the year just a week away, industry executives should prepare themselves for the madness ahead. read more
Philippines climate negotiator issued tearful plea last year: 'No more excuses'
2013-11-11 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: In December 2012, a month after Hurricane Sandy and in the wake of the deadly Typhoon Bopha, a Filipino climate negotiator broke down in tears halfway through his prepared remarks at a global climate summit in Doha, Qatar, and gave a stern warning to his fellow delegates. "Madam chair, we have never had a typhoon like Bopha, which has wreaked havoc in a part of the country that has never seen a storm like this in half a century," Naderev Sao, the lead negotiator of the Philippines delegation at...
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No more excuses over switch to clean energy
2013-07-04 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: HERE are some depressing facts: there is no global agreement to stop climate change; many countries don't have a serious policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; fossil fuels still receive more subsidy than clean energy. And yet despite this, renewable energy is catching on. It will overtake gas as a source of electricity within three years. By 2018, a quarter of the world's electricity will come from sources like hydropower and wind. Other technologies like solar panels are also going global...
TV licence fee excuses revealed
2013-06-18 04:18:50| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A homeowner said they did not think they had to pay their TV licence fee because they claimed their pet was related to one of the Queen's dogs, it is revealed.
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