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On Your Markets, Get Set, Grow!
Carbon offsets still booming despite financial crisis |
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06 Oct 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:55 AM on 06 Oct 2008 The carbon-offset market in the United States is still booming despite the financial crisis, with offset sellers reporting continued gains even in the face of rising offset prices. Analysts say the carbon market's relative strength could mean consumers' green guilt knows no bounds or that the country's recent economic troubles have not hit most would-be offset buyers -- typical ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Green Groups Doing a 'Face Plant'
Two coal plants given go-ahead by green groups after concessions negotiated |
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07 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:00 AM on 07 Aug 2008 Environmental groups dropped their opposition to two different coal-fired power plant expansion projects in Wisconsin and Texas this week after the utilities agreed to a range of concessions designed to limit the environmental impacts of the plants. In Texas, power company NRG reached an agreement with Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition and the Environment ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, climate, coal, Environmental Defense Fund, news, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics) |
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Only You Can Prevent Climate Change
Gore group will launch climate marketing campaign |
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24 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:42 AM on 24 Mar 2008 Photo: World Resources Institute Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend more than $300 million over the next three years on a marketing campaign aimed at getting Americans to address climate change. With ads developed by the Martin Agency (the folks behind the Geico cavemen and chatty gecko) and partnerships with grassroots groups, the campaign focus will be o ... |
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| Topics: advertising, Al Gore, business, climate, climate change mitigation, grassroots activism, green products, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Mark(et)ed for Death
Three Wall Street banks announce funding restrictions for new coal power plants |
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04 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 6:24 AM on 04 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Three major investment banks, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, will announce new environmental standards today that are expected to make it more difficult for large coal-fired power plants in the United States to get funding. The standards anticipate some form of cap-and-trade program becoming law in the U.S. in coming years an ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, coal, news, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Climate-Risky Business
Investors petition SEC to require companies to disclose climate risk |
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18 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 6:09 AM on 18 Sep 2007 Activists, investors, and activist investors have teamed up to try to compel the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to require publicly traded companies to disclose their climate-change risks. Under current law, the SEC requires companies to detail potential risks to investors in their annual and quarterly reports to the agency. The activists, armed with a petition, ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Gettin' Busy
U.S. business getting with it on climate change |
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27 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Gettin' Busy U.S. business getting with it on climate change Talk about how the U.S. private sector is taking global warming seriously often flirts with wishful thinking. But we are nothing if not wishful. And flirty. So here goes: It looks like momentum is gathering in the U.S. business community to forthrightly address the issue of climate change. In part due to shareholder and activist lobbying, a growing number ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, news, United States (all these topics) |
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