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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1162)	9/18/2006 9:58:11 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1183

Institutional investors warned about peak oil and climate change by Staff Contributor PSJ writes: A major report launched today warns institutional investors to pay attention to the dangers of climate change and peak oil. The fourth Carbon Disclosure Project report is the result of a collaboration of 225 institutional investors with combined assets of $31 trillion. In the report, Winston Hickox, Senior Portfolio Manager of Environmental Initiatives at Calpers, one of the world's largest pensions funds, writes, " While climate change risks are rapidly becoming clearer and better understood by institutional investors, the implications of “peak oil,” yet another large-scale economic externality that requires better understanding by investors, is less well known to the institutional investor community." The following is from the Peak Oil section of the CDP4 Report Message 22822392