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IPCC report: The financial markets are the only hope in the race to stop global warming
2013-09-27 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The financial markets are humanitys only hope in the battle against global warming, the worlds top climate expert declared today as he presented the most overwhelming case ever made that humans are responsible for rapidly increasing the Earths temperature. Rajenda Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said his organisations latest report provided unequivocal evidence that since 1950 the atmosphere and oceans had warmed, and that scientists were now...
Financial markets inherently biased against clean energy, warn analysts
2013-02-21 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Clean energy firms might be lobbying the wrong ministers when they seek market reforms to help drive green investment. Rather than focusing on energy policies, they should be seeking to reform the "institutionally fossilist" financial markets. That is the stark message contained in a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), which uncovered a litany of biases in financial regulation that tilt markets in favour of conventional energy and could potentially hold back the flow of investment...
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