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Agrium CEO slams activist investor Jana, says proposals "all wrong"
2013-01-28 21:09:35| Chemicals - Topix.net
The CEO of fertilizer giant Agrium Inc. is showing no signs of warming to an activist hedge fund's plans for improving the company, telling analysts Monday that Jana Partners LLC's ideas are "all wrong." In feisty remarks to sell-side analysts in New York, Mike Wilson ridiculed Jana's notion of breaking up the company into separate retail and ... (more)
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United Kingdom: Economist Stern: 'I Got It Wrong on Climate ChangeIt's Far, Far Worse'
2013-01-27 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: Lord Nicholas Stern, the widely respected author of a landmark 2006 government-commissioned report on global warmings effect on the world economy, says he should have been more blunt about the dangers posed by rising temperatures. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Stern said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects...
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I Got it Wrong on Climate Changeit's Far, Far Worse
2013-01-27 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Nicholas Stern, the author of a 2006 report commissioned by the British government on climate change that has been used as a reference ever since, says he now realizes he "underestimated the risks' of rising temperatures. In an interview with the Guardian, Stern, who is one of the world's leading environmental economists, says that had he known then what he knows now, he would have been "a bit more blunt' about the risks that climate change poses to the economy. Stern, who heads up the Grantham...
United Kingdom: Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change it's far, far worse'
2013-01-26 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt" about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Stern, who is now a crossbench peer, said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected,...
Clegg: Capital spending cut wrong
2013-01-24 23:37:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The coalition made a mistake in cutting back capital spending when it came into office, Nick Clegg says.
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