Wal-Mart, Clinton
Climate Initiative in Partnership
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N NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Thursday it has
partnered with the Clinton Climate Initiative to explore ways to use
purchasing power to lower prices on "environmentally-friendly"
technologies such as energy efficient building materials and
lighting.
The two organizations said they will collaborate on the design and
discovery of new products and work together to source new products.
"By combining our resources, we can help drive innovation, create
new technology markets and ultimately reduce this country's
dependence on foreign oil," said Lee Scott, president and CEO of
Wal-Mart, in a statement...
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Dioxin in Michigan
River May Be Worst Case Yet
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A dioxin find at the bottom of
Michigan's Saginaw River could be the highest level of such
contamination yet discovered in U.S. rivers and lakes, according to
a federal scientist involved in cleanup efforts downstream from a
Dow Chemical Company plant.
A crew testing the Saginaw and Tittabawassee rivers discovered the
sample, which measured 1.6 million parts of dioxin per trillion
parts of water, the Saginaw News and the Detroit News reported last
week.
That level is about 20 times higher than any other find recorded in
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency archives...
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by Tim Hepher and Emmanuel Jarry,
Reuters
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - President Nicolas
Sarkozy wound up a state visit to China on Tuesday buoyed by record
deals for French firms, but unable to shake more than a deadpan
response out of Beijing on jitters over currencies and the
environment.
Sarkozy challenged China to play its part in tackling the problem of
global warming after repeatedly urging Beijing to play its full part
as a global power.
"I am proposing that China joins a new global pact, an ecological
and economic New Deal," he told students in Beijing...
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Global delegation led
by Valli Moosa meets Nelson Mandela
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The governing body of the world's
leading authority on biodiversity, the Council of the World
Conservation Union (IUCN), met yesterday with President Nelson R.
Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.
The Council, led by its President Valli Moosa, includes the world's
leading ecologists and environmentalists, and handed to President
Mandela the latest updated IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The
2007 IUCN Red List concluded that 16,306 of the 41, 415 species
listed are currently threatened with extinction.
IUCN members include nearly 200 governments and government agencies
and more than 800 non-governmental organisations. IUCN has
representation in over 43 countries and has an extensive network of
offices and staff working at global, regional and national level. It
bases its decisions on the scientific research of more than 10,000
volunteer scientists working in six commissions. Its Species
Survival Commission (SSC) produces the Red List.
The Red List documents and highlights biodiversity loss at species
level and provides guidance for conservation action by governments
and conservation organisations...
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