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3 000 companies cause $2.2T in environmental damage
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The Guardian
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World's top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates
Report for the UN into the activities of the world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment
• Andrew Simms: Putting a price tag on nature is meaningless
• Pavan Sukhdev: Paying for the value of nature could set scene for true green economy
Juliette Jowit
Black clouds over the central busin ....
The Guardian
Article Source
World's top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates
Report for the UN into the activities of the world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment
• Andrew Simms: Putting a price tag on nature is meaningless
• Pavan Sukhdev: Paying for the value of nature could set scene for true green economy
Juliette Jowit
Black clouds over the central busin ....
Algae/Cellulose Fuels
- Brittany beaches hit by toxic algae
- algae bloom - pictures
- algae - a primer
- Craig Venter - Synthetic Genomics
- $510M bet on next generation biofuels
- a Call for Urgency in Scaling Algae-based BioFuel
- US airlines beginning to power flights using bio-fuels
- making an 'efficient photosynthetic organism, even more efficient'
- USNavy 'green fleet' get veteran support
- "... changes more profound than anything since the fall of the Ottomans are starting to take place in the Middle East"
Insurance
- insurance rates rise as climate talks fail
- 2011: record year for number of $B disasters
- 2011 a year for the record books
- the race to exploit the wonders of this Planet is killing us
- do climate deniers threaten the lives & livihoods of the rest of us - insurance companies think so
- US experienced record $14B in damage (2011) due to climate
- harsh winter predicted?
Oil
- Are energy companies too Big to fail?
- capping damages?
- 'BP's response has been unacceptable!'
- 'the Dragonfly stuck to a Reed'
- BP's Swill
- 2nd Plume discovered
- It's Official - BP beats Exxon
- GulfCoast Cleanup? Enlist the unemployed
- 'BP has turned the Gulf into a cesspool'
- Anger Growing at BigOil
- Crimes & Punishment
- BP's Fate - let the marketplace decide?
- 10 Horrifying facts...
- Contact Numbers & Resources
- Submit a Solution
- DeepWater Horizon Response
- can BP survive?
- $70B loss
- who pays if BP seeks court protection?
- By the Numbers
- US orders BP
- Crosses erected on Grand Isle
- is the BP story running away from BP?
- can Hollywood help the Gulf?
- oil drenched wildlife - gallery
- wildlife rescue
- VOLUNTEER to HELP
- the face of corporate irresponsibility
- 'seat-of-your-pants' professionalism
- USGov't holds 'billions' in BP leases
- An Opportunity
- 'save a nickel to spend a dime'
- BP begins $50M ad campaign
- Debarrment threat
- Contempt for BP
- $90B in losses and climbing
- BPSolar
- new estimate put at 25 000 - 30 000bbl/day
- Interactive Website - 'if it was my home'
- Audubon Action - Register to Volunteer
- US/BP slow to accept Dutch expertise
- BP asked to ante up $34B
- 60 000 barrels/day (2 520 000gallons/day)
- How much can BP lose?
- cost of insuring BP debt jumps to all time high
- Ocean Therapy Solutions
- JoeBarton (R, TX) would like to apologise
- photographs
- Partner in damaged oil well slams BP for 'reckless' actions -- and inaction
- Louisana Environmental Action Network (LEAN)
- BP accused of lying to Congress
- Tally (6-21-10) - birds, mammals, turtles
- Reshuffling the Team ?
- an obvious marketing opportunity?
- BP's Alaska drilling project continues on schedule
- 'marshes being used as a boom'
- BP's burn fields burning sea turtles alive
- Millions of Migrating Birds heading to Gulf
- Att'n focuses on BP's Atlantis
- the legal face of BP?
- Running on Empty
- investigation into BP's drilling partner
- BP to reduce US exposure
- altering food web
- BP faces Lockerbie accusations
- BP's troubles deepen w/Buncefield verdict
- oil flow stopped but not capped
- "the Whale" fails
- Made in China - failed blow-out-preventer
- BP sells $7B in assets
- Alarms switched off on rig ?
- TransOcean
- selling TransOcean short?
- Following in Bligh's footsteps - Hayward's next disaster?
- most oil unaccounted for
- is BP buying silence?
- BP to drill offshore in Mediterrean
- oil spill dumped 4.9M barrels of oil (205M gall)
- Corexit 9500 dispersant - toxicity test
- Oceana
- Alarm over dispersants
- BP szs 'static kil' has successfully plugged oil well
- WhiteHouse accused of spin over oil
- crisis 'may be over'
- lessons learned, technology developed
- Scientist retracts assurances over success of cleanup
- BP frozen out of Greenland
- BP investigation blocked by Senate
- BP points fingers
- BP well finally "dead"
- Chevron's 18Billion gall toxic spill
- BP & other major polluters funding TeaParty
- Syncrude fined C$3M for wildlife deaths
- Syncrude fined C$3M for wildlife deaths
- WikiLeaks: BP's secret blowout in the Caspian Sea
- WikiLeaks : Chevron's oil project w/Iran
- US sues BP for unlimited damages
- EPA regulations re:refineries & the openings for algae fuel
- Unravelling
- Saudi oil reserves overstated by 40% ?
- Chevron fined $8B
- UK to wean itself off oil?
- Koch & Native-American Reservation Oil Theft
- is the mid-east burning ?
- libyan transitional council
- if Bahrain goes
- helping Greenpeace analyse 30 000 pgs of BP memos, emails
- UK offshore oil spills
- Lufthansa to run regular flights using biofuels
- Shell's drilling could 'devastate' marine sanctuary
- Shell faces huge bills over Nigerian spills
- Chinese approach to oil spills
- Keystone XL''s dirty secret
- Keystone XL - neither cheaper nor cleaner
- TransCanada agrees to re-route KeystoneXL
- BP accuses Halliburton: destruction of data
- Questioning Artic oil exploitation: Deepwater Horizon leak "every 2 months"
- ShellOil - major spill
- Ecuador paid not to extract oil
- Ecuador upholds Chevron $18B fine
- Political Consequences
- XL Pipeline rejected
- Canada trade war w/EU grows
- Shell Nigeria
- Photographing the Oil Industry
- BP's attack on scientific freedom
- 'like the Keystone Cops'
- BP 'to pay record penalty'
- BP suspended from federal contracts
- BP: takeover target?
- darryl hannah: wonder-woman?
- BP:"hit them for maximum"
- Shell suspends off-shore drilling in Artic
- the 'Carbon bubble'
Companies / Consultants
- 3 000 companies cause $2.2T in environmental damage
- the "Great Leap Forward"
- PotableWater Monopoly
- Cuban Organics
- LeapFrogged? Can Capacitors replace Batteries
- China, Inc
- the Great Pollinator Die-Offs
- 7th Generation
- Confessions of a (corporate) Environmental Officer
- compostable plastic bags
- SolarMillennium - Egypt
- solar sails - is there a market?
- Eco-Diapers
- TonyBlair joins environmental VC company
- Food Monopolies & the Chemical Industry
- the Power to regulate a Multi-National
- Pulp Fiction
- TaxPayer Water Subsidies getting scrutiny
- Israeli Occupation Industries
- Going after Lehmann
- profits in battery-leasing
- Lead Players for Zero Pollution Engines
- Ethical Investing
- battery leasing competition heats up
- meat industry - is it sustainable?
- Green Roofs
- China orders polluting industries to shut down
- SunPower
- Bottlenecks & Monopolies
- Green Chamber of Commerce
- StatoilHydro to build first off-shore floating wind turbine
- Fuel Cell Energy
- Energy Crops
- end factory farms - 500M egg recall
- resurgence of fun
- Ecotricity
- the Republican Party's Progressive wing!
- another Gulf oil platform explosion
- MegeFlora Tree - Biomass - Emerald Energy
- Wild Birds Unlimited - wildlife shelters
- Chevron/NiMH batteries
- Exxon & Algae Fuel
- solar leasing
- compostable packaging
- Svenska Aerogel - CleanTech Company of the Year
- Vattenfall - Swedish utility's green portfolio
- Vesas to close 5 wind turbine plants
- RareEarth - a new calculus
- the Economics of RareEarths & Yttrium
- Intelligent Energy
- Is China moving to monopolise wind energy industry?
- Is McDonald's guilty of bribing children?
- Solar Leasing
- a new way of doing business
- CCTV installed @ slaughterhouses
- can environmental issues progress if large corporations control the message?
- green power companies
- "the next Big Thing" ? (press release)
- supermarket growing food on roof
- carbon emissions - by industry
- Glencore Commodities
- Plan for BigPharma goes nowhere
- under the theory that 'any power is better than no power'
- removing CO2 from the atmosphere
- American Electric Power - whine
- 'as western economies totter..'
- Syngenta adds amylase to increase ethanol yiels in corn
- Problems at Nevada Geothermal
- bamboo building bonanza
- Mongolia's mega-mines
- energy efficiency - massave.com
- did NationalPark reverse bottle ban after meeting w/CocaCola?
- Guggenheim Arctic Investment Fund
- Monsanto settles 'Agent Orange' case
- Intellectual Ventures
- Battery maker A123 Systems goes to auction block
- solar firms investigated
- TeslaMotors 'about to be huge'
Corruption
- Price of Environmental Destruction? There is none
- from UnionCarbide to Trafigura
- Environmental Crimes
- "It's all about the money!" ANC
- Climate Court
- Total/Chevron & Yadana Project
- a 'culture of failure' @ Interior
- Mineral Management Service
- 'where oil flows, corruption follows'
- Corruption undermining grants to stop logging
- Veggie Liable Laws
- India's mining
- Inside Hatem Yavuz
- Borneo logging/timber mafia
- clamping down on carbon scams in China
- Wikileaks isn't the only game in town
- Wikileaks: Shell's grip on Nigeria revealed
- bonuses for failure
- WikiLeaks: BP's secret blowout in the Caspian Sea
- WikiLeaks : Chevron's oil project w/Iran
- FoxNews told to throw doubt on climate change
- WikiLeaks: BAE+Tanzania=Blair?
- billionaire heads of state
- fears of widespread corruption in nuclear industry
- WikiLeaks: US targets EU over GM crops
- WikiLeaks: Israeli corruption @ Karni crossing
- Justice Dept panics over WikiLeaks
- WikiLeaks, US & Cororate Interests
- Tracking Green Activists & policing for profit.
- Ignorance or Arrogance? UK gives banks go-ahead for unlimited bonuses
- raw data - WikiLeaks
- Another climate skeptic lies to Congress
- corporate spying on environmentalists
- murdoch - phone hacking gone wild
- red-hand protest against News International
- do corporations profit from non-profits ?
- Corruption & Spying - "peddler of privacy" ?
- Murdoch's 'culture of corruption'
- still cleaning diapers, murdoch flies to london
- liftiung the veil
- hacking scandal to jump Atlantic?
- the Pillars of Ignorance
- institutional criminality
- MySpace
- Contempt of Parliament
- Conspiracy ?
- the fatal flaw of a tabloid editor is overreaching
- prolicide
- the company
- Questions & follow-up
Corruption
- India e-mails
- $100 000 Reward
- Throwing money at a problem
- the 'negligent side of careless'
- ipaidabribe.com
- Transparency International
- City of London
- Corruption Perception Index (CPI)
- how to find a liar
- Fascism - 'corporate takeover of gov't'
- a 'reputation' that is hard to shake: Blackwater-Xe-Academi
- Insider Trading legal in Congress
- 'conform or be crushed'
- can a banker go bankrupt?
- the 'edifice of fraud'
- 'Wall St's rotten core'
- Kansas City Chiefs using taxpayer money to pay taxes
- another UK bank caught scheming w/Iran
- Ryan traded on insider information as banks collapsed
- Surveillance Societies around world
- up to $32T in offshore acc'ts
- 'ethically challenged' - BVI offshore acc'ts
- Ag-Gag laws
- 10 000kgs of illegal pangolin meat aboard chinese vessel
Financing/Lending
- Green bank plan backed by venture capitalists
- Pretty Good
- GreenFinance for a GreenFuture
- Bloomberg New Energy Finance
- Rich countries to pay energy giants to build coal-fired power plants
- Micro-Lending on increase
- IPO brings controversy to Microlending
- ShoreBank Pacific
- First Affirmative Financial Network
- Green Investment Bank
- how the world economy can solve its credit crisis
GreenCollar Jobs
- GreenCollar Jobs
- energy audit - thermal imaging
- food towers & vacant bldgs
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Bainbridge Graduate Institute
- Gourmet Mushrooms from coffee grounds
International
- Global Mining - Vale
- Bangladesh moves in on China
- RioTinto - Chinalco - Guinea
- China passes by Japan to become 2nd largest economy
- Clean Energy Forum, Lisbon (Oct 2010)
- why Germany can compete w/China while US lags
- Oil Companies & Banks profit from UN forest protection scheme
- SeaShepherds go International
- Chinese suspected in Renault electric car spy case
- another US solar company leaving the US for China
- the World according to Monsanto
- Save the Earth w/Christie !
- global clean tech investment $243B (2010)
- Economic Recession fails to curb record greenhouse gas emissions
- Maplecroft - Risk analysis
- biofuel project displaces wildlife
- Europe 'falling behind' in green investment race
- News Corporation holdings
- sovereign credit ratings
- S&P downgrade US
- Revelation! China's economy needs US consumption
- World headed for irreversible climate change
- IPCC warnings
- 'Carbon Piracy'
- does the World risk sliding into a Great Depression?
- Environmental Armageddon
- controlling world's weather by 2020?
- rethinking food production system
- uranium ban balanced by XL pipeline approval?
- global trade - in reverse?
- Multi-nationals control food aid
- Artic ice shrinks to lowest extent
- Military warned over climate change
- 2012 Extreme weather cost $100B
- the Vatican's millions
- CO2 @400ppm
Investing/Divesting
- Green Century Funds
- Calvert Funds
- Green Stock Watch
- Leasing Business / recurring income
- SupremeCourt offers sympathetic ear to business
- what are green bonds ?
- Gaia Equity
- Clean Edge
- Rupert & Wendi
- graphene
- Buffet's MidAmerican Energy to take over TopazEnergy
- vulture funds preying on world's poorest
- Desertec Industrial Initiative
- 'dry cleaning' solar panels/mirrors
- low carbon energy investment SoAmerica/Caribbean
Legal
- Damages
- 10 Questions for British Petroleum
- "an Exxon Valdez every 4 days"
- Prosecuting Crimes against the Earth - BP
- 75yr old takes Monsanto to Supreme Court
Lobbying
- who's red, who's blue, who's ... green?
- making sanctions effective - target business leaders
- US companies disconnect
- secret funding against renewables by conservative groups
Marketing / PR / Greenwash
- McDonald's' 'Green' image ?
- 'a dollar well spent'
- "greenwash! it's cheaper"
- Risk Management - monoculture
- Ecover defends against Greenwash
- Eco-friendly munitions !
- YingLi Solar, the WorldCup & Marketing101
- AmericanCoalition for CleanCoal & Electricity
- "Bikini Babes" sell climate change
- Super Heroes & Role Models
- dead oil soaked black bears
- Is the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil providing operational cover to Wilmar?
- BioFuel Journal
- reaction to Vodafone (Egypt) claim to have helped the revolution
- Genetically engineered trees
- ClimateWiki & HeartlandTrust
- CSR (corporate social responsibility) reports false
- Climate deniers: a threat to our economy & health
Models
- 'Ideology of a Cancer Cell'
- Sustainability
- Ecover
- Problem = Opportunity
- Kiva
- Tools & Tips for the GreenCapitalist
- the Integrated Solution
- Capitalism & the Environment - putting a price on Nature
- Ethical Trading Initiative
- Peraska
- vertical integration for TeslaMotors?
- the Failure of Capitalism
- EcoSystem Services: putting a value of UK green spaces?
- Turf painting
- Cap & Trade; CA goes it alone starting 1/1/13
- solar powered plane to cross US
Non-Profits
- Business for Social Progress
- 10,000 Villages
- EarthWorks Action
- Linden Trust
- demise of micro-finance ?
- Kiva - empowering people around the world
- non-profit accountability (INGO)
- Earth Rights
- omidyar foundation
Resources
- China puts the eco back in economy
- Afghanistan Mineral find
- Getting rid of Phone Books
- Price to Pay
- For China, Resource issues are National Security issues
- Illegal Logging
- Mountain-top mining project on hold
- efficiency offset by demand
- "the resource curse"
- Deep Ocean Mining Program resusitated
- GoogleEnergy power purchase
- frantic race for resources
- China's Oil Spill - what really happened
- problems of e-waste & the rise of hi-tech recycling
- Tensions fester at mining venture in Peru
- Industrial Capitalism - Amory Lovins
- BHP Billiton
- Energy & Environment Publishing
- Drilling for oil in Greenland
- 97% rare earth minerals from China
- the trade in Rare Erath minerals
- in our rush to explout the world's resources, are we sacrificing our moral & ethical beliefs ?
- Podering China's rare Earth stance
- Teghut Mining project
- as Artic melts, US poorly positioned
- Spruce Number One coal mine halted
- e-waste :24kg Au, 250kg Ag, 9T Cu
- Glencore 'in the dark ages'
- Squandering our Resources - EU fleets throw away 2.1M tonnes of cod ($4.3B)
- Controlling algae w/barley straw
- Marine Slaughter
- acterra
- limits to growth
- Glencore/Xstrata deal?
- Vedanta vs Dongria Kondh people
- Bat die-offs cost $3.7B loss
- 'experiencing' a luxury
- drought leads to declaration of natural disaster
- overvalued Australian dollar is a sell
- Corporate colonisation of African land
Taxes
- End TaxBreaks for Polluters
- Carbon Tax - who manages the $?
- Soft Drinks
- food towers
- Sales Tax Alternative
- SalesTax as a PoliticalWeapon?
- All of it
- how to tax Bottled Water
- Tax dodges, breaks & subsidies for BigOil
- the truth about Tax Havens
- UK carbon emissions tax $23/tonne (2013)
- tax benefits offset by tax
- implementing Australia's carbon tax
- Australia prepares carbon tax (US$22/ton)
- If the wealthy wish to shun higher taxes, what will default cost them?
- controlling feral bankers
- 'demonized' for flaunting ones wealth
- 'demonized' for flaunting ones wealth
- Tobin tax
- airline carbon tax
- tariffs on chinese solar panels
- Shadow Banking & Treasure Islands: the world of tax havens
- $21T hidden from tax authorities
- Wealth doesn't trickle down, it just floods offshore
- how much states receive from Feds vs dollars sent to Washington
- Offshore Secrets
Trading
- Nano-Trading
- Scrutinising Carbon Offsets - CDMs
- Financial Speculators - Food Speculators
- water
- despite sanctions Shell Oil trades w/Iran
- Wilder Hill New Energy Global Index
- European carbon market in trouble
Trends
- SkySails/SolarSails
- the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- The Age of Efficiency
- Cellulose
- Micro-Finance - poor a better risk
- New Life for Agricultural Waste
- mini-buses
- Pallets
- Green Capital
- no shiv? try mine
- Waste not, Want not
- 'efficiency' as a tradeable commodity?
- Women & Girls
- portable, modular factories
- a generation behind Europe, US signs 1st offshore wind farm
- Franchise
- Systems Ecology
- 'with nothing left to mine...'
- Over $1.2T invested in GreenTech since 2007
- A Tale of Caution - WallSt lessons & Our Environment
- what is a smart road?
- Green Tower Project
- dirty rich vs. clean rich
- Putting Exercise to Work
- China to scale up solar module production
- US falling behind alt. energy market
- China to invest billions in electric cars
- Media
- US losing its lead to China in clean tech
- US navy completes test on boat powered by algae
- the Ecnomics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity
- No Bankruptcy Option
- Huff/AOL
- altruism & the common good
- 20-50% more energy from PV using trees as design
- bid for (climate-change) legal damages
- Spy Files - Wikileaks
- Desertec gets closer to reality
- Knowledge on the Edge
- WorldEconomicForum: societal upheaval 2012
- Carbon Engineering
- test-tube burgers
- PaveGen - electricity generated by footsteps
- Denmark: 100% of its energy from renewables by 2050
- 3D printing
- $3/gall attracts (used-cooking) oil thieves!
- Urban Mining - e-waste
- US drought - map
- Agroforestry takes root
- Artic sea ice shrinks to record low
- ocean acidification
- 200GW of marine power by 2050
- cheap shale gas expected to transform the US
- how much does a 2-day traffic jam cost?
- Reaction Engines - propulsion technology
- Greek Barter
- next nature
- karma tube
- climate change set to make America hotter, drier, more disaster prone
- Future Energy
- System of Root Intensification (SRI) more than double rice yields
- Bosco Verticale