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Task Force Draft for Climate-related fin disclosure to mislead investors
Recommendations by a Financial Stability Board (FSB) task force calling for separate requirements for disclosing climate-related financial risks could lead investors to misunderstand opportunities...
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Public group calls for ban on pollinator toxic products from Amazon
Over 30 environmental and public health groups, joined by several environmentally conscious businesses, sent a letter today to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, urging him to remove products...
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Trump signs order overhauling Obama’s attempts to slow climate change
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at tackling global warming.
The order seeks to suspend, rescind...
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Save sea cows campaign: 23 countries pledge to protect sea cows
Saving sea cows helps ensure human food security, says a newly launched Dugong and Seagrass Research Toolkit.
Twenty-three countries agreed to enhance efforts to help...
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India, China, EU to lead if US withdraws from Paris Pact: UNEP chief
Even if the US pulls out of the Paris Agreement, as President Donald Trump has threatened to do, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)...
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Indonesia joins UN Environment’s #CleanSeas campaign
Indonesia joined today UN Environment's global campaign to eliminate major sources of marine litter: microbeads in cosmetics and the excessive, wasteful usage of single-use...
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Economic Survey reflects India’s climate change commitments
Comparing India's high carbon pricing to other developing and developed countries, the Economic Survey 2016-17 on Tuesday reflected the country's commitment to tackle the...
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Ecological degradation of Rohtang a manmade disaster: NGT chief
He has since his childhood seen the ecological degradation of the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh -- which remains snowbound for over six months...