Nonprofit organization Climate Counts has released its 2010-2011 Company Scorecard and Nike comes out on top again.
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The first step is to build awareness in the organization about climate change and adaptation.
This dire Himalayan glacier calamity was predicted by a preeminent international climate science organization, none other than the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
One would imagine that if you can trust any organization regarding reliable climate information, it would be NASA, right?
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Mindy Lubber is the president of Ceres, a non-profit organization mobilizing business leadership on climate change.
Earlier this year, dozens of businesses and environmental groups signed on to the United States Climate Action Partnership, an organization calling for a so-called "cap-and-trade" system to limit carbon emissions.
Ceres, a business sustainability leadership organization, has been researching the effects of climate change and severe weather on the insurance sector.
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It has taken world problems such as food, the failure of World Trade Organization members to reach a global trade agreement, climate change and a financial crisis in 2008, to take this event out of the jamboree category and transform it into a preeminent event for all politicians, CEOs, finance directors and economists to be supportive of.
Longer-term, what the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) calls "slow-onset" climate change is seen as likely to have a heavy impact on food production in developing nations.
On Monday, the World Meteorological Organization of the UN said greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change have reached record levels in the atmosphere and show no sign of receding.
The event was presented by Advanced Energy Economy Ohio, a growing organization of advanced energy businesses across Ohio promoting a better business climate for the sector in the state.
The Sierra Club, the anti-climate change consortium 350.org, and the civil rights organization the Hip Hop Caucus put together the rally.
Specifically, this is about a sobering study just released by the organization Ceres showing just how badly prepared insurers are to address risks from climate change.
"The pipeline has come to symbolize something much, much bigger than just one energy project, it's come to symbolize what is our energy future, and what President Obama is going to do on climate change, " said activist Jane Kleeb of the anti-pipeline organization Bold Nebraska, in a state where the Keystone XL project would cut through predominantly agricultural areas.
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