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NGOs: World Banks New Safeguards Weaken Protections
2016-07-29 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: After a four-year review of its environmental and social safeguards, the World Bank has released an updated set of safeguards in the newly drafted document "Environmental and Social Framework." But nongovernmental organizations say the safeguards have been weakened, not strengthened. The Bank says the safeguards review and update is part of a larger modernization effort within the institution, which includes separate reviews of Investment Lending, to which the safeguard policies are applied, and...
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UK government's fracking definition 'could allow drilling without safeguards'
2016-04-13 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK government has been accused of including a large loophole in its legal definition of fracking which could enable companies to bypass safety regulations, according to a leading geologist. In rules that came into force on 6 April, fracking is defined by the amount of high-pressure fluid used to fracture shale rocks and release gas or oil. However, the only well fracked in the UK so far, which caused small earthquakes near Blackpool in 2011, would not qualify as fracking under the definition....
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Recent Food Recalls Due to Plastic Contamination Prompt Major Restaurant Chains and Retailers to Insist on Additional Food Processing Safeguards; Eriez PolyMag Additives Provide a Solution
2016-03-15 11:31:08| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Erie, PA - Recalls resulting from plastic contamination in food products are on the upswing in the United States, prompting major restaurant chains and retailers to demand their food processing suppliers utilize plastic and rubber items that are metal detectable. Eriez provides a solution with its FDA compliant...
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United Kingdom: Ministers urge safeguards for Green Bank to retain low-carbon mandate
2016-03-07 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The head of a parliamentary committee is to demand ministers introduce tougher safeguards to ensure the Green Investment Bank continues with its low-carbon mandate following a controversial privatisation. Mary Creagh MP, who chairs the environmental audit committee (EAC), also expressed concern that the bank could in future put more effort into overseas projects than in supporting the domestic sector for which it was set up. The government has said it will retain a special share in the lending...
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Brazils Senate could soon be voting against the countrys environmental safeguards
2016-02-16 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Tomorrow, Brazils Senate could be voting on a new measure which would speed up the process required to obtain environmental licenses for infrastructure projects. Dubbed as PLS 654/2015, the bill is moving urgently through the Senate, according to the Senate general secretary board. The project would grant the governments executive branch the power to indicate, by decree, which constructions are considered strategic for the sustainable development of the country, by offering them a so-called...
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