Climate Change Update: Canadian companies sees cap-and-trade regulations could provide a significant market opportunity

The recent survey of 108 large Canadian companies is part of the annual worldwide study conducted by the non-profit CDP on behalf of more than 500 institutional investors. Over the past decade, the group has cajoled more and more global firms to disclose their policies and initiatives related to climate change and water usage.

More than half of the companies that responded to the survey said they sell at least some products or services that help clients reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. At the same time, more than 85 per cent said they have a program in place to reduce their emissions – usually by cutting energy use in their buildings or plants.

“Large organizations … are seeing climate change as a business imperative that needs to be dealt with,” said Zoe Tcholak-Antitch, North American director of CDP. “Climate change represents the first-ever predictable industrial revolution, and I think a lot of companies are really beginning to see that.”"
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Tip: BODY should develop a good resistance to diseases, build a muscle mass because fitness is dependent on gender, food and age

"Komal Shah, a yoga instructor says, "Everybody is aiming on reducing their certain body part which will enable them to wear dresses like the female actors. But they don't understand that what is important is overall fitness." Says Mumbai based Ashtanga vinyasa yoga expert Dipika Mehta "The west has much more regulated stuff for personal weight reduction regimes. People read in books about Kareena Kapoor's suryanamaskars and start doing the same. What is important is the alignment during the suryanamaskars." Not every workout works great on all people at the same time is what people are now slowly getting a grip of. Anything is achievable but the ultimate aim should always be a healthy body."
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Ways to Mitigate Climate Change: Alternative Energy: Low Carbon Aviation Fuel from steel is only half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel

According to Virgin Atlantic, the "breakthrough aviation fuel technology" will see waste gases from industrial steel production being captured, fermented and chemically converted using Swedish Biofuels technology for use as a jet fuel. India, which is among the world's largest steel producers, will be one of the first countries where the fuel will be produced as Lanzatech and partners develop facilities there and with three years and Virgin Atlantic hopes to fly Delhi to London Heathrow on the new fuel sometime in 2014.

The "revolutionary fuel production" will enable airlines to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint by reusing gases that would otherwise have been emitted directly into the atmosphere and promote sustainable industrial growth, as the process enables manufacturing plants to recycle their waste carbon emissions, a Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said.

Virgin President Richard Branson has termed the partnership with LanzaTech a breakthrough in aviation fuel technology and a major step toward radically reducing our carbon footprint. The technology is currently being piloted in New Zealand and following successful implementation, a wider roll-out could include operations in the UK and the rest of the world."
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Climate Change Update: ASIA: Links between Continental-Scale Weather Events and Global Risks to Food Availability"

It is more than a year since the devastating July and August 2010 floods in Pakistan that affected about 20 million people and killed an estimated 2,000. Many believe that the disaster was partially fuelled by global warming, and that there is a real danger that Pakistan, and the Indian subcontinent in general, could become the focus of much more regular catastrophic flooding.

Indeed, right now Pakistan is again experiencing massive flooding. The UN asserts that, already, more than 5.5 million people have been affected and almost 4300 are officially reported dead, 100 of them children.

Last year’s calamity, in particular, highlights the vulnerability of much of Asia to climate change, and has helped elevate this into one of the most important and pressing political and social issues in the region. Indeed, an increasingly prevailing view is that the impact of climate change could be worse in the region than all previous social, health and conflict disasters of the past."
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Tip: Healthy Mental Health is an Inner State of Psychological Bliss and Well-Being

World Mental Health Day on 10th October 2011. There are global talks and discussions on causes and treatments for various mental, psychological, behavioral and neurological disorders. Policies are being thought over to help end the centuries' old stigma towards mental illnesses. In this huge and much needed effort, we are forgetting something really important. Mental health is not limited to a mere absence of disease"

World mental health day 2011: Top 5 issues - The Times of India: "
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Ways to Mitigate Climate Change: Alternative Energy: Photovoltaic Panels, which convert sunlight into electricity, power homes and businesses

Alternative Energies became Kentucky's only manufacturer of photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight into electricity to power homes and businesses. The company has rented office and manufacturing space in the old ATR Wire & Cable plant on Danville's bypass, trained 10 employees and set up a side business in security systems to cushion its startup.

"It has been slow starting," said Dan Tolson, one of three partners in the company. Solar power is a novelty in Kentucky, he said, "but we think the potential here is huge. It just makes sense." Photovoltaic-panel prices worldwide have fallen more than 30 percent in the past year, making solar power an increasingly viable supplement to conventional power supplies. "The more we use this technology, the cheaper it gets," AEK partner Troy Lay said."
Tom Eblen: Company says the future of solar panels in Ky. is bright | Business | Kentucky.com:

Alternative Energies of Kentucky installed this solar panel-power system on a customer's home in Frankfort. PHOTO PROVIDED

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Climate Change Update: Climate change not factored into companies' value, warns UN chief | Environment | The Guardian

As long as these companies [that emit large quantities of greenhouse gases] have a high value, we are giving out the wrong signals," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, told an audience of carbon finance specialists in London. "It has got to be that those companies that are investing in the technologies of the future are recognised."

She called for "an active valuation" of companies with high carbon emissions, saying the world was "far behind" in doing so. "How is it possible that the valuation is not keeping pace?"

Companies should take note, she urged, of the political reality that governments around the world have signed up to a commitment of holding global temperature rises to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels, which scientists regard as the limit of safety beyond which climate change becomes unstoppable and catastrophic."
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