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Warsaw climate talks warned time is running out to close 'emissions gap'
2013-11-05 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As world leaders prepare to meet in Poland for the latest United Nations summit on climate change, a major new report has warned that the chance to limit global temperature rises to below 2C is swiftly diminishing. The United Nations Environment Programme's annual "Gap report", issued on Tuesday aims to highlight the efforts needed by governments and businesses to avoid catastrophic climate change. This year's report shows that even if nations meet their current climate pledges, greenhouse...
World leaders warned time is running out to close widening emissions gap
2013-11-05 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: As world leaders prepare to meet in Poland for the latest United Nations summit on climate change, a major new report has warned that the chance to limit global temperature rises to below 2C is swiftly diminishing. The United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) annual "Gap report", issued today aims to highlight the efforts needed by governments and businesses to avoid catastrophic climate change. This year's report shows that even if nations meet their current climate pledges, greenhouse...
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Time Running Out for Green Building Incentive
2013-09-27 19:13:00| National Real Estate Investor
Owners and managers might not have much time. In just three months, one of the strongest incentives to make buildings more energy efficient will expire. Commercial real estate owners and managers are hurrying to place energy-saving improvements in service by New Year's Eve in order to claim a $1.80-per-sq.-ft. tax deduction under the Energy Efficient Commercial Building Tax Deduction, Sec. 179d of the tax code. Meanwhile advocates for the commercial real estate advocates are pressing Congress to renew the tax benefit and even expand it to apply more easily to companies like real estate investment trusts. read more
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Sands of time running out for rare Canadian desert
2013-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: As desertification creeps into parts of the world, a rare stretch of sand in Canada's vast western plains is oddly doing the reverse -- slowly sprouting with vegetation. Tufts of prairie grasses are emerging throughout Spirit Sands, a stretch of dunes steeped in local lore in a popular nature park in Manitoba province. The sands cover only about four square kilometres (1.54 square miles) and in some parts, entire mounds have been completely overgrown. Today, this small patch is the only...
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Time Is Running Out On Beef Demand
2013-06-20 22:14:00| Beef
The numbers continue to tell a depressing story relative to the beef industrys efforts to grow market share and demand. Perhaps most alarming is that weve become so conditioned to losing market share to our competitors (other protein sources and global beef suppliers), that we tend to celebrate that the rate of decline is not as fast as it once was. My View From The Country read more
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