Allianz Knowledge / Latest News Articles http://knowledge.allianz.com California regulators gave final approval to the first mandatory U.S. energy curbs on television sets, a growing but often overlooked power drain that accounts for 10 percent of home electric bills in the state. /en/news/viewdetail/us_energy_limitation_flatscreen_tv.html /en/news/viewdetail/us_energy_limitation_flatscreen_tv.html Women bear the brunt of drought, rising seas, melting glaciers and other effects of climate change but are mostly ignored in the debate over how to halt it, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said. /en/news/viewdetail/climate_deal_aim_women_united_nations.html /en/news/viewdetail/climate_deal_aim_women_united_nations.html China's huge Three Gorges Dam has left a backlog of problems that may need 170 billion yuan ($24.9 billion) or more to solve, adding to the burdens of the controversial project, state news reports said. /en/news/viewdetail/china_three_gorges_dam_funding_expensive.html /en/news/viewdetail/china_three_gorges_dam_funding_expensive.html A U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was liable for some damage caused by massive flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. /en/news/viewdetail/us_government_katrina_liability.html /en/news/viewdetail/us_government_katrina_liability.html A looming government clampdown on CO2 emissions is about to confront an already embattled U.S. coal power industry with two stark options: capture carbon or die. /en/news/viewdetail/usa_coal_industry_carbon_capture_project.html /en/news/viewdetail/usa_coal_industry_carbon_capture_project.html Seed banks need a further 250 million dollars to preserve all varieties of food crops including those which may best survive future climate changes, the Global Crop Diversity Trust said on Wednesday. /en/news/viewdetail/seed_bank_food_security.html /en/news/viewdetail/seed_bank_food_security.html The United States is looking to procure more food aid locally to increase farming capacity in the developing world rather than relying on shipping U.S. grown food, the head of its development agency said on Tuesday. /en/news/viewdetail/us_food_aid.html /en/news/viewdetail/us_food_aid.html A binding international treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions will slip to mid-2010 or beyond and a summit in Copenhagen next month will fall short of its ambitions, the United Nations and Denmark said. /en/news/viewdetail/climate_treaty_united_nations_2010.html /en/news/viewdetail/climate_treaty_united_nations_2010.html More than 49 million Americans - one in seven - struggled to get enough to eat in 2008, the highest total in 14 years of a federal survey on "food insecurity," the U.S. government said. /en/news/viewdetail/usa_food_supply_shortage_struggle.html /en/news/viewdetail/usa_food_supply_shortage_struggle.html Government leaders and officials meet in Rome on Monday for a three-day U.N. summit on how to fight global hunger, but anti-poverty campaigners are already writing off the event as a missed opportunity. /en/news/viewdetail/g8_food_summit_hunger.html /en/news/viewdetail/g8_food_summit_hunger.html