INVESTORS REQUEST DISCLOSURE OF CLIMATE EMISSIONS, STRATEGIES
*LONDON, UK, February 6, 2008 (ENS)* – The Carbon Disclosure Project,
a collaboration of 385 institutional investors with assets under
management of $57 trillion, has issued its 2008 information request to
the world’s largest corporations. Companies are requested to measure
and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and report on their
strategy for dealing with climate change.
AFRICAN ELEPHANT COUNTRIES STRATEGIZE TO THWART POACHING
*BAMAKO, Mali, February 6, 2008 (ENS)* – Elephant conservation and
anti-ivory trade initiatives are the focus of a meeting that opened
today here with delegates from 17 African elephant range states.
Organizers say there is potential for the formation of a coalition of
like-minded states that will work towards strengthening elephant
conservation.
EXPLORING THE HEAVENS FROM ANTARCTICA’S HIGHEST POINT
*COLLEGE STATION, Texas, February 6, 2008 (ENS)* – A team of
scientists representing six international institutions has established
a unique robotic astronomical observatory at Dome Argus on the highest
point of the Antarctic Plateau. Operating without a person physically
present, the observatory is expected to result in new insights into
the universe once possible only from space.
*February 6, 2008*
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ARCTIC OIL LEASE SALE COULD SPELL DISASTER FOR POLAR BEARS, WWF SAYS
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2008 –/WORLD-WIRE/– World Wildlife
Fund (WWF) condemns Lease Sale 193 by the Minerals Management Service
(MMS) in Alaska on February 6 that opens nearly 30 million acres of
the pristine Chukchi Sea to oil and gas activities, putting at risk
the future of people, polar bears and the magnificent Arctic.
PROTECT POLAR BEARS / DELAY OIL LEASES, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND SAYS
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2008 –/WORLD-WIRE/– World Wildlife
Fund (WWF) is alarmed that a decision to list the polar bear under the
Endangered Species Act (ESA) to protect the species and its fragile
Arctic environment has been plagued with delays while an oil lease
sale of nearly 30 million acres of the prime polar bear habitat in the
Chukchi Sea is scheduled for February 6 in Alaska.