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The bill for all that unchecked carbon pollution is a lot bigger than previously thought -- and that the longer we wait to pay it, the more it’s going to cost us.
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General Mills and Walmart have both made smart business decisions by committing to use 100 percent sustainable palm oil. Companies that ignore supply chain risks such as deforestation put their company's reputation and profits at risk, and investors are starting to notice.
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The Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), a trade group representing more than 4,000 manufacturers, retailers, distributors and adventure companies, recently joined the business coalition BICEP to push for passage of comprehensive climate and energy legislation. These companies recognize that investing in clean energy and halting our addiction to emitting carbon pollution for free isn’t just good environmental stewardship, but also good economic policy.
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Proponents of tapping Canada's oil sands have wasted no time loudly pitching themselves as the great North American alternative to risky deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. In reality, this is a risky undertaking on a scale with offshore drilling.
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On buses, in hallways, in long lines outside the Bella Center, participants are all talking about the explosion in financing and carbon trading that is needed to dramatically reduce the pollution causing climate change.
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Trillions of dollars of investment is needed to help create a low-carbon global economy in the coming 20 years. So why is so much of this money sitting on the sidelines, especially when it comes to Africa, which is so much on the receiving end of a changing climate's worst impacts?<br />
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While the industrialized world is struggling to cut its emissions, and is gearing up to negotiate a new international climate treaty in Copenhagen this December, it is simultaneously bankrolling the construction of thousands upon thousands of megawatts of new coal-fired power in developing countries.
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Friday’s historic House vote on the climate change bill will go down as one of the most important votes of our era. Congress has taken a vital step toward launching the first national action plan to address climate change, and moving America down the vitally needed path to a new economy.
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Alarmists in entrenched industry say the energy bill being debated in Congress will harm the economy. But history has shown that industry's resistance to change is groundless and higher standards set by government stimulate economic growth, writes Ceres President Mindy S. Lubber.