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US in focus as shares eke out modest lift

2014-04-28 16:59:36| Agriculture - Topix.net

Australian shares notched up a seventh consecutive session of modest gains after recovering from an afternoon slump led by a sell-off in iron ore and coal miners.

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"Modest upturn" expected for global trade in 2014: WTO

2014-04-14 19:14:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines

There will be a 4.7 per cent growth in global trade in 2014 and a slightly faster rate of 5.3 per cent in 2015, according to economists with the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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'Modest hope' to slow warming but no 'free lunch,' U.N. warns

2014-04-14 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CNN: Keeping global warming down to a level people can live with means cutting carbon emissions to "near zero" by the end of the century, even in an increasingly industrialized world, the top U.N. experts on the issue reported Sunday. That may be doable, but it will take "substantial investments" in everything from planting more trees to replacing fossil fuels with low-carbon power sources like solar, wind and nuclear energy, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced in its latest report....

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Cost of fighting warming 'modest,' says UN panel

2014-04-13 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: The cost of keeping global warming in check is "relatively modest," but only if the world acts quickly to reverse the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the head of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change said Sunday. Such gases, mainly CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels, rose on average by 2.2 percent a year in 2000-2010, driven by the use of coal in the power sector, officials said as they launched the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's report on measures to fight...

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Boxer, Vitter Agree on Highway Bill Framework, Seek Modest Funding Hike

2014-04-10 18:46:58| ENR.com: Headline News

Senate EPW panel's "Big Four" hope for six-year bill, with funding boosts for inflation, but finding new revenue will be up to tax-writing committees.

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