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UK: Fashion retailers urged to hold nerve on discounts
2013-11-04 13:47:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
UK fashion retailers should hold their nerve when it comes to discounting to tempt cautious consumers to spend this Christmas, new research suggests.
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Supermarkets Urged to Adopt Three-point Waste Food Protocol
2013-11-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - If swill-feeding of pigs is reintroduced in the European Union, sooner or later there will be a breakdown in controls, resulting in a major disease outbreak, which will in turn have a devastating impact on all actors in the European food chain, said National Pig Association (NPA) in a letter to supermarket chiefs.
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Africa urged to pursue homegrown climate change solutions
2013-11-01 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: African nations are entitled to a fair share of financial and other assistance from the developed world to help them cope with climate change, but they should also take the initiative to green their own economies and use land more sustainably and productively, experts told a conference on climate change and development in Ethiopia this month. The Kenya-based Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), a coalition of non-governmental organisations, urged rich nations to commit at upcoming U.N....
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UK universities urged to pull cash from fossil fuel giants
2013-10-26 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An international campaign to urge large institutions to dump fossil fuel investments reaches the UK this week, following rapid success in the US. The year-old divestment campaign, Fossil Free, has grown even faster than similar efforts that once targeted apartheid, tobacco and arms manufacturers. It now aims to focus attention on the 5bn invested in coal, oil and gas by the endowment funds of UK universities. The move comes as financial giants such as HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs are...
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Resilient crop farming urged in South Asia
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Star: Farming of resilient and mixed crops can help mitigate food scarcity in South Asia`s coastal areas and fight against the adverse impacts of climate change, speakers told the inauguration of a workshop yesterday. They also emphasised conserving soil nutrition and harvesting rainwater to combat challenges of irregular rainfall which has detrimental effects on crop productivity. As South Asia is known for its problems centring hunger and malnutrition, there is no alternative to adopting resilient...
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