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2015 shatters temperature record as global warming speeds back up
2015-11-18 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With just a month and a half left in 2015, its clear this year will be by far the hottest on record, easily beating the previous record set just last year. The temporary slowdown in the warming of global surface temperatures (also misnamed the pause) has ended, as each of the past four years has been hotter than the one before. El Nio is one reason 2015 has been such an incredibly hot year. During El Nio events, hot water is transported from the deep ocean layers to the surface. Over the...
Apparel brands back plans for global labour standard
2015-10-21 12:56:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A coalition of leading brands including Gap Inc and PVH Corp, as well as textile mills and NGOs, have joined forces to move towards an industry-wide, standardised methodology for auditing social and labour performance in apparel and footwear supply chains.
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Climate change: 10 world biggest oil companies back pledge fight global warming
2015-10-17 19:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Chief executives of 10 of the worlds biggest oil and gas companies have pledged their support for an "effective" deal to fight global warming. With the key Paris summit to fight climate change less than two months away, 10 of the world's largest fossil fuel companies, between them producing 20 per cent of the worlds oil and gas, backed an agreement to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. In a joint statement, the CEOs of BP, Shell, Saudi Aramco, Total, Repsol,...
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New study: International Energy Agency holds back global energy transition
2015-09-23 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Energy Watch Group and Lappeenranta University of Technology analysis shows that the IEA has consistently undermined potential of solar and wind energy in the last decade. Energy Watch Group makes the International Energy Agency responsible for consistently underestimating the potential of renewable energy and promoting conventional energy sources. The new study by Energy Watch Group and Lappeenranta University of Technology, released today, comes to the conclusion that the International Energy...
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ADM scaling back global sugar trading - sources
2015-05-26 08:45:51| Sugar Industry News
LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Co is scaling back its modest-sized sugar trading operations and the London-based head of that business has left after less than four years, trade sources said, a sign of the sugar market's deepening woes.
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