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...sustainable energy supplies and mitigating climate change": More than 30% of U.S oil imports come from Latin American nations, a level that outstrips even that which we take from the Middle East. Given America's checkered standing in the region, it's an alarming figure. In order to avoid being held hostage by fluctuations in the price of crude, the authors recommend developing sustainable energy infrastructures-an endeavor that will also help to suppress climate change. "The link between carbon-intensive activities and changes in the world's climate is now well established, and the consequences will be felt across...
...mutual funds have been forced to sell long-held positions to meet redemptions this year, they have generated capital gains - which must be passed along to investors. We might therefore also see a round of year-end selling of mutual-fund shares by investors looking to offset gains and avoid paying taxes by locking in losses. "Tax-loss selling is a very powerful force," says Joe Battipaglia, market strategist for the private client group at Stifel Nicolaus. "The market is down 50% from a year ago - those are sizable losses...
Recognizing that women were being denied the right to a fair trial, she said she looked to international human rights standards as a model for her legal strategy and then scoured Nigerian and Islamic law for similar statues in order to secure due process and avoid execution by stoning for women accused of adultery...
...control the growth of greenhouse gas emissions - we'll need to spend an additional $9.3 trillion, if we're aiming to stay below the 2 degree C warming max recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Of course, an increasing number of scientists argue that we need to avoid even that level of warming.) "We would need concerted action from all major emitters," said Nabuo Tanaka, the head...
That's why renewables-industry leaders say Obama's first priority has to be energy. If we get this wrong now, we'll put ourselves in an enormous hole - and the consequences, as the Berkeley study makes clear, are pretty scary themselves. "It's like guiding a supertanker to avoid a distant collision," says Roland-Holst. It's time for all hands on deck...