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Businesses call for stronger policy to avoid trillion tonne carbon milestone

2014-04-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: A coalition of global businesses has called on world leaders to prevent a trillion tonnes of carbon from entering the atmosphere, by promoting clear low-carbon policies. The Trillion Tonne Communiqué, a coalition of 70 companies including Mars, Unilever, Adidas and EDF, and co-ordinated by the Prince of Waless Corporate Leaders Group, has called for the measures in order to avoid climate disasters. The Communiqué said that governments must set targets to achieve zero net emissions before 2100...

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Vatican halts 'trillion euro fraud'

2014-03-30 17:03:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Italian police arrest two men who were allegedly trying to deposit trillions of euros in fake bonds in the Vatican bank.

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Administration Proposes $3.9 Trillion Budget

2014-03-10 19:26:00| National Hog Farmer

President Barack Obama released the administrations $3.9 trillion fiscal year 2015 budget that provides additional funding for preschool, job training and climate change research. The budget also provides funding for manufacturing institutes, health and environmental research, and supports funding to train 100,000 teachers in 500 districts. Money is also allocated for infrastructure repair for roads, bridges, railways and transit systems. The President said, Our budget is about choices. Its about our values. As a country, weve got to make a decision if were gonna make smart investments necessary to create jobs and grow our economy and expand opportunity for every American. read more

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Global Apparel and Footwear Sales to Hit US$2 Trillion by 2018

2014-03-10 08:14:44| Footwear - Topix.net

Despite subdued consumer confidence in Western Europe, excessive discounting impeding profits and the slowdown in China, the global apparel and footwear industry generated incremental retail growth of US$85 billion in 2013, a growth rate of 5% .

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