Business Leaders Sign Tokyo Declaration to Tackle Global Warming and Enact Industry-Wide Change (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance) A business group including leading companies such as HP, Sony, Nokia and Nike today released the Tokyo Declaration, a joint call to tackle the urgent issue of climate change. Signing the declaration at the Climate Savers Summit 2008 held by WWF and Sony in Tokyo, a dozen business leaders highlighted that the world's greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by more than 50 percent by 2050. [News Source]

Global warming threatens to redraw world’s wine map: experts (PhysOrg) Champagne produced in southern England? Bordeaux in the Loire Valley? Climate change is threatening to redraw the world's wine-producing map, and the effects are already being seen in earlier harvests and coarser wines, experts told an international conference Friday. [News Source]

Atlanta, cities worldwide to protest global warming (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Atlanta plans to join more than 20 other cities around the world on Saturday, March 29, that will turn off the lights to signify support for combating climate change. The World Wildlife Fund is organizing the event, called Earth Hour 2008. In a statement released Friday, Mayor Shirley Franklin said "I call on citizens and business leaders across Atlanta to support Earth Hour. Once again, our ... [News Source]

Business chiefs vow to lead fight against global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) Some of the world's top companies vowed Friday to step up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying governments were failing to show sufficient leadership in the fight against global warming. [News Source]

Global warming threatens to redraw world’s wine map: experts (AFP via Yahoo!Xtra Entertainment) BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - Climate change is threatening to redraw the world's wine-producing map, and the effects are already being seen in earlier harvests and coarser wines, experts told a conference Friday. [News Source]

Leading brands call for action on climate change (Environmental News Network) Tokyo — Some of the world's leading businesses have come together to call for the world to take all necessary action to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius. The Tokyo Declaration, signed by 12 companies including Allianz, Sony, Nokia and Nike, was presented by Sony Chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer at the opening of the annual WWF Climate Savers Conference ... [News Source]

Business chiefs vow to lead fight against global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) Some of the world's top companies vowed Friday to step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying governments were failing to show sufficient leadership in the fight against global warming. [News Source]

Bill would require state’s science curriculum to cover climate change (San Jose Mercury News) Reading, writing and . . . global warming? A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining momentum with a bill that would require "climate change" to be among the science topics that all California public school students are taught. [News Source]

Business chiefs vow to lead fight against global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) Some of the world's top companies vowed Friday to step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying governments were failing to show sufficient leadership in the fight against global warming. [News Source]

Business chiefs vow to lead fight against global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) Some of the world's top companies vowed Friday to step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying governments were failing to show sufficient leadership in the fight against global warming. [News Source]