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• CII's GreenCo Rating eyes 100 companies

  The system will create a framework to define and assess how green the company is and highlight the way forward on how to turn greener With GreenCo Rating System, an initiative of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Green Building Centre, is eying 100 companies by end of 2015 in India for this rating. The objective of GreenCo rating system is to create a framework to define and assess how green the company is and highlight the way forward on how to turn greener.

  • 10/03/2014

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • India
    • Green Buildings
    • Green Rating Projects
    • Tata Motors
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Waste Recycling
    • Waste Management
    • Wind Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Green House Gases
    • Waste Disposal
    • Industry
    • Environment

• Swiss Seek Precision as Nations Shape Carbon Market

  Nations setting up carbon markets must standardize their emission-reduction benchmarks to ensure international efforts to limit global warming stay on track, according to Switzerland’s climate envoy.

  • 10/03/2014

  • Bloomberg
  • • Switzerland
    • Carbon Market
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Emissions Trading
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • China
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Climate Mitigation

• Climate talks risk failure without mandatory targets to reduce emissions: envoy

  Nations risk repeating the failure of climate talks in 2009 unless they sign up to mandatory emissions reductions in a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, according to Bangladesh's climate envoy to the

  • 05/03/2014

  • Age (Australia)
  • • Climate Change
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Bangladesh
    • South Asia
    • Green House Gases
    • Climate Agreements
    • Sea Level Rise
    • European Union (EU)

• Australia experiencing more extreme heat, high fire danger days, says the latest State of the Climate report

  Australia is being hit by more days of extreme heat and high fire danger, trends that may accelerate as the planet heats up, says the latest State of the Climate report by the Bureau of Meteorology and

  • 05/03/2014

  • Age (Australia)
  • • Australia
    • Climate Impacts
    • Extreme Weather Events
    • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Green House Gases
    • Rainfall Pattern
    • Carbon Dioxide

• Slovakia says EU's proposed climate goals unacceptable-PM quoted

  Slovakia cannot agree with the European Commission's proposed climate and energy goals that target a 40 percent cut in carbon emissions reductions and increased use of renewable power, Prime Minister Robert

  • 04/03/2014

  • Reuters
  • • Slovakia
    • Climate Change
    • European Union (EU)
    • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Green House Gases
    • Climate Mitigation

• Understanding CO2 emissions from the global energy sector

  Although coal-fired plants account for just 40 percent of world energy production, they were responsible for more than 70 percent of energy-sector emissions in 2010 says this World Bank study.

  • 04/03/2014

  • The World Bank
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Energy
    • Green House Gases
    • Carbon Intensity
    • Coal
    • India
    • Global
    • Renewable Energy

• State of the climate 2014

  This State of the Climate is the third in a series of reports produced by CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. It provides a summary of observations of Australia’s climate and analysis of the

  • 04/03/2014

  • CSIRO
  • • Climate
    • Climate Change
    • Australia
    • Green House Gases
    • Atmosphere
    • Extreme Weather Events
    • Sea Level Rise
    • Rainfall
    • Heat Waves
    • Cyclones

• Global warming slowdown likely to be brief: report

  A slowdown in the pace of global warming so far this century is likely to be only a pause in a longer-term trend of rising temperatures, the science academies of the United States and Britain said on Thursday.

  • 28/02/2014

  • NDTV
  • • Global Warming
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • United States Of America (US)
    • United Kingdom (UK)
    • Green House Gases
    • Renewable Energy

• Greenpeace co-founder says 'man not responsible for climate change'

  Patrick Moore, co-founder and former member of Greenpeace, has claimed that climate change is not man-made. Moore, a Canadian ecologist, told members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

  • 28/02/2014

  • Zee News
  • • Climate Change
    • Greenpeace
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Green House Gases

• Global warming will reduce crop production by 2% every decade: Report Feb 28, 2014

  Global warming will reduce the world's crop production by up to two percent every decade and wreak $1.45 trillion of economic damage by the end of this century, according to a draft UN report, Japanese

  • 28/02/2014

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  • • Global Warming
    • Climate Impacts
    • Agriculture
    • Climate Change
    • IPCC
    • Japan
    • Rainfall Pattern
    • Droughts
    • Sea Level Rise
    • Floods
    • Infectious Diseases
    • Green House Gases