The Globe is Warming! Investors warned over cost of greenhouse gas

With only 4% of the world's population, the US is responsible for 25% of all carbon dioxide

16.06.2005 |Sascha Gabizon

Global Warming is in the headlines, and nuclear energy showed once more not to be safe!

The debate's over: Globe is warming. The ground has shifted on global warming. After decades of debate over whether the planet is heating and, if so, whose fault it is, divergent groups are joining hands with little fanfare to deal with a problem they say people can no longer avoid. USA Today

Investors warned over cost of greenhouse gas. The UK's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are revealed this week, with a warning to shareholders that they should take the potential cost of climate change into account when investing.

Shell, the oil producer, is responsible for 23 per cent of emissions of the FTSE 100, while BP, its rival, and Scottish Power, the electricity and gas supplier, are joint second with 17 per cent of the total each.

Finding out how much carbon dioxide a company produces can be difficult. Fewer than half of the FTSE 100 companies disclose their carbon emissions. Even when they do, comparisons may be tricky as companies often use different metrics.

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Beckett exposes G8 rift on global warming. The British Government is deeply disappointed that President George Bush has not made a greater commitment to tackling climate change before the G8 summit.

Read the full article under London Independent, England.

Global warming: the US contribution in figures. With only 4% of the world's population, the US is responsible for 25% of all carbon dioxide, more than China, India and Japan... combined.
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Sellafield radioactive leak to cost £300m. The massive leak at the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria will keep it closed for several more months and cost Britain's clean-up programme at least £300m in lost revenue this year alone, it emerged yesterday. Read more about this article under
London Guardian, England.