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Del Birmingham

Hedge fund downgrades stock over company's links to illegal logging in Russian Far East - 0 views

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    A hedge fund manager has downgraded Lumber Liquidators' stock over the company's alleged links to illegal logging in the Russian Far East Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1202-lumber-liquidators-stock-illegal-logging.html#0g9VRO8vX0tA1BP8.99
Adriana Trujillo

Green Sells: Meaningful Brands Outperform the Stock Market - 0 views

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    New research documents that green products and meaningful brands deliver increased sales plus financial performance that outperforms the stock market.
Adriana Trujillo

A Tiny Pacific Nation Takes theLead on Protecting Marine Life by Emma Bryce: Yale Envir... - 0 views

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    Unhappy with how regional authorities have failed to protect fish stocks in the Western Pacific, Palau has launched its own bold initiatives - creating a vast marine sanctuary and conducting an experiment designed to reduce bycatch in its once-thriving tuna fishery.
Adriana Trujillo

In Japan, a David vs. Goliath Battle to preserve Bluefin Tuna | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    These small-scale fishermen in southern Japan are up against an industrial fishing juggernaut that is rapidly depleting stocks of Pacific bluefin tuna. A prime culprit behind the crisis, the Iki fishermen said, is a high-tech Japanese fishing armada that mines the waters northeast of Iki where Pacific bluefin tuna congregate to spawn. For the past 11 years, convoys of boats have waited in the Sea of Japan for these fish to gather, then used sonar tracking devices and huge purse seine nets to scoop them up by the thousands and sell them to global seafood giants such as Nippon Suisan Kaisha and Maruha Nichiro Corporation.
Adriana Trujillo

Ikea readies first sustainability campaign in marketing switch | News | Marketing Week - 0 views

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    IKEA is launching a campaign aimed at persuading its customers to stock up on energy-efficient light bulbs while highlighting the company's commitment to stop selling nonefficient bulbs by 2016. "This is a sustainability campaign but also a brand campaign. We need to explain what we stand for and celebrate that," says Peter Wright, IKEA's UK and Ireland marketing manager
Adriana Trujillo

Paper Bulks Up in Digital Era - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Americans renew their relationship with paper, ditching the cheap stuff for reading news to buy expensive stock for photo-based cards and albums.
Adriana Trujillo

How Golden Agri could help make half of all palm oil sustainable | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    Golden Agri Resources (GAR) which produces an estimated 5 percent of the world's palm oil, made a significant announcement in a filing to the Singapore Stock Exchange - confirming it is committed to zero deforestation throughout its entire supply chain
Adriana Trujillo

Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Climate change is already taking a serious toll on the planet, leading to heat waves, water shortages, melting ice caps, dying coral reefs and the extinction or migration of fish stocks, according to a report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Decisions made -- or left unmade -- by policymakers in the immediate future will shape global society for the rest of the century, the panel's report warns. "Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change," said Rajendra K. Pachauri, the panel's chairman
Adriana Trujillo

Mountaintop removal for coal hurts water quality and harms fish, study says - The Washi... - 0 views

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    Mountaintop-removal mining is changing water chemistry and harming fish stocks in the Appalachians, federal researchers say. "We're seeing significant reductions in the number of fish species and total abundance of fish downstream from mining operations," says biologist Nathaniel Hitt.
Adriana Trujillo

The Diminishing Tuna: Round Two - 1 views

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    According to Greenpeace, the fish that sushi restaurants rely upon for their high-priced sashimi dishes is now endangered. Sixty percent of the world's tuna stocks is now harvested from the Pacific Ocean, and bluefin prized for its delicate meat fills a substantial demand in Japan. More than 70 percent of the bluefin that is caught ends up in Japan.
Adriana Trujillo

Apple is first U.S. tech company to issue green bonds | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    Apple frequently uses debt rather than its flush cash coffers to finance corporate initiatives, such as stock repurchase programs - it makes sense to do so for tax reasons. But, the company's latest appeal to the public debt markets includes another "first" for Apple and the tech industry at large: Apple is issuing $1.5 billion in green bonds to pay for a wide range of environmental initiatives.
Del Birmingham

According to New IPCC Report, the World Is on Track to Exceed its "Carbon Budget" in 12... - 0 views

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    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new report takes stock of the most recent literature on the carbon budget. The bottom line? We're on track to blow through it over the next decade.
Adriana Trujillo

New MSC Report Spotlights Certification's Role in Delivering the SDGs | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has released a new report highlighting the positive impact certification can have in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The MSC Global Impacts Report 2017 details more than a thousand examples of positive change being made by certified fisheries to safeguard fish stocks and marine habitats.
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