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The new Green Standard: can Wal-Mart revolutionise the retail market?

The U.S. super-giant Wal-Mart last week announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index that will record the ecological impact of every product the retailer carries. The sustainability of a product’s history will then be translated onto a label which the customer can see as they make their purchasing decisions. This sustainability index would be the first of its kind utilized at such a large scale and the retailer hopes that the index will become a new international retail… Continue

Added by Paige Andrews on July 25, 2009 at 6:58am — No Comments

Al Gore in Melbourne to Address Climate Change

Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President and climate change campaigner, was in Melbourne on Monday for the launch of the new think tank Safe Climate Australia and to help train 300 people from 19 nations to address and encourage their leaders on the issue of climate change. Gore’s visit also coincides with Australia’s first ever Youth Climate Summit which hopes to mobilize a new generation of climate change activists. Speaking before a group of 1,000 Australian business leaders, Gore praised the… Continue

Added by Paige Andrews on July 15, 2009 at 12:56am — No Comments

Stalemates and gestures as the G8 convenes in Italy

Environmental leaders from the Group of Eight (G-8) countries met this week in L’Aquila, Italy to discuss issues such as the economy and climate change. Members of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) on Energy and Climate were in attendance, consisting of the G8, G5, EU, Australia, Indonesia, Denmark and the Republic of Korea and accounting for nearly four-fifths of the world production of greenhouses gases. In a communiqué distributed on Thursday, the countries formally embraced limits to the rise… Continue

Added by Paige Andrews on July 11, 2009 at 2:19pm — No Comments

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