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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Posted in * Global Fund Exchange, Agriculture, Announcements, Carbon Finance, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Commodities, Energy Efficiency, Investments, Natural Resources, Nuclear, Oil, Policy, Solar, Traditional Energy, Transportation, Uncategorized, Water, Wind
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Global food prices jumped 10% in July from the month before, driven up by the severe Midwest drought which has pushed the price of grains to record levels, the World Bank reported Thursday. Global food prices soared by 10 percent … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Commodities, Investments, Water
Tagged Drought, Food prices, Investing in Agriculture, poverty
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More than half of the country was under moderate to extreme drought in June, the largest area of the contiguous United States affected by such dryness in nearly 60 years. Nearly 1,300 counties across 29 states have been declared federal … Continue reading
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Tagged Investing in Agriculture, US Drought, water scarcity
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Scientists in the US said the loss of ice in the Arctic this summer was likely to be greater than in 2007, when the previous record was set. Five years ago, the ice crap shrank by more than 1.5 million … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Traditional Energy, Water
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Corn futures surged 58 percent since mid-June, soybeans were up 31 percent and wheat 41 percent. The US drought may push food inflation as high as 4 percent in 2012, the USDA said last week. The department has declared natural disasters … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Investments, Natural Resources, Water
Tagged Anric Blatt, corn crop, Drought, investing in food, Jeremy Grantham, US Drought, water scarcity
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China, the world’s biggest generator of greenhouse gases, estimated it may spend 2.37trillion yuan ($373 billion) on projects for conserving energy and reducing emissions in the five years through 2015, spurring a surge in shares of environmental protection companies. The … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Finance, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Investments
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The United States, Mexico — which is currently chairing the G-20 — and France held a conference call Monday to discuss a report requested by France on food prices. They also discussed whether G-20 states should hold an emergency Rapid … Continue reading
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Tagged Drought, food security, investing in food, russian drought, wheat shortage
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With much of the U.S. continuing to suffer under the worst drought conditions in half-a-century, any rainy weather system at all might seem a refreshing sight — but evidently, sometimes a T-storm can feel a lot like a tea-storm. According to Weather … Continue reading
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Brent crude jumped to $115 a barrel last week. Petrol costs in Germany and across much of Europe are now at record levels in local currencies. Diesel is above the political pain threshold of $4 a gallon in the US, … Continue reading
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