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Number of Megacities Has Nearly Tripled Since 1990, UN Report Says
2014-10-06 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Urban footprint of Tokyo The number of urban areas with more than 10 million inhabitants -- sometimes called "megacities" -- has nearly tripled in the last 24 years, jumping from 10 in 1990 to 28 in 2014, according to the latest UN report on world urbanization. The total number of people living in megacities has grown from 153 million to 453 million during that period, the report says, and such areas now account for 15 percent of global GDP. Many are located in Asia: Tokyo, Japan, now tops the list...
Incentive pay being used more in trucking compensation executive says
2014-10-06 02:22:55| Trucking - Topix.net
Incentive pay is being used more and more frequently in driver compensation programs, the top executive of a compensation consulting firm said here Sunday. "Pay for performance programs are very hot topics in trucking these days," Beth B. Carroll, principal of the Prosperio Group told reporters at a news conference at the American Trucking Association Management Conference and Exhibition.
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Court rules in favor of FedEx drivers in Kansas, Bloomberg says
2014-10-06 01:04:14| Air Courier - Topix.net
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Ditch U.N. temperature target for global warming, study says
2014-10-01 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A temperature goal set by almost 200 governments as the limit for global warming is a poor guide to the planet's health and should be ditched, a study published in the journal Nature said on Wednesday. The world's environment ministers agreed in 2010 to cap a rise in average surface temperatures at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times as the yardstick to avoid more floods, heat waves, droughts and rising sea levels. "Politically and scientifically, the 2 degree C goal is...
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Cars will now be taxed twice says AA
2014-10-01 01:01:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The AA complains that the new vehicle tax system will provide the government with extra revenue, as some cars will, in effect, be taxed twice.
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