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Climategate: even skeptics win, deforestation still happen

Posted in Forest on December 3rd, 2009 by iip – 3 Comments

Climategate could be the hottest climate debate which will undermine the global effort of earth cooling. Climate skeptics may not believe on man-made global warming, thus buzzing scientist’s hacked email emphasizing the poor quality of scientific works that was done. Will Climategate attract more politicians, activists and campaigners in the Copenhagen meeting?

Wait, climategate is  in the centre of climate science, not on the area where greenhouse gasses are released: Sumatran forests. Recent news is coming from the green movement to stop deforestation from paper industry. They have been campaigning for years, resulting more paper consumers leaving papers from unsustainable forest.  Here some consumers from fashion industry that declaring it self not to use paper product from unsustainable forest of Indonesia –especially in the island where peatland forests restoring huge carbon:

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Energy companies dominate top largest companies at NYSE

Posted in Business on April 22nd, 2009 by iip – 1 Comment

I posted a list of world’s biggest companies ranked by Forbes.  In that post I highlighted on the domination of energy companies in the top 15. Forbes ranked 2000 companies accros countries, varies from banking and finance industry, retail to telecommunication.

The list of  2009 world’s biggest companies is fair enough to describe state of the art of current world’s business. Most of them are multinational companies and managing high value of natural resources economy. If such business fueling world’s economy, so with the fossil energy.

A list of top largest companies at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) comfirms domination:

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2009 World’s biggest companies and fossil energy business

Posted in Business on April 13th, 2009 by iip – 2 Comments
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Forbes releases the world’s biggest companies list. It reveals 2000 companies that, says Forbers,  ‘will emerge on the other side of the trough far stronger when world economies snap back next year’. Current global crisis is not a hard way for them to keep grow, fund, and entering the new market. Even crisis is the best time to buy rivals.

The world’s biggest  companies are placed in 62 countries, mostly in US.  Forbes put various sectors from banking to telecommunication industry.  The list also put several fossil energy companies in top 15.

Although international organizations propose a concept of green economy, in fact,  fossil energy business has more  assets and resources. Ok, this situation could be opportunity too. They has more capital to alter the pattern of world energy economy, so we have a chance for green economy.

Here top 15 of world’s biggest companies, in 2009:

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