Archive for the ‘Carbon’ Category

Japan’s Carbon Emissions Hit Record Highs Despite Kyoto Pledges

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Japan, the birthplace of the Kyoto Protocol, has actually seen carbon emissions increases rose by nearly 9% above 1990 emissions levels, according to new data released yesterday. Under the Kyoto Protocol, Japan is committed to reducing its emissions by six percent from the benchmark year in the period between 2008 and ...

Notes on the Election, Energy Politics and Clean Energy Investment Trends

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Last year was another record for investment into alternative and renewable energy, with $148.4 billion poured into the sector globally, up 60% from 2006. On top of this, total M&A transactions in the space amounted to over US$55 billion. Asset financing was the main driver for investment growth, up 68% ...

Venture Capital Investments Reach Record High

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Venture capital firms invested a record $1.6 billion in Q3 2008, up 55% from the previous quarter, in U.S. cleantech companies, according to a new analysis by Ernst & Young. A total of $3.3 billion was invested in the first three quarters of 2008, surpassing the figure for the same ...

Energy Efficiency Gains Are Cheaper than Finding New Supply in Developing World, New McKinsey Study Finds

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Energy efficiency has enormous promise for most developing economies. The investment yields in energy efficiency over the next two decades will generally be several times higher in the developing world, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute. Developing countries could invest $90 billion annually over the next 12 ...

Putting U.S. Carbon Emissions in Perspective

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008



US Logged Biggest Decline in Vehicle Miles Traveled on Record for August

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Americans drove 15 billion fewer miles in August than they did in the same month one year ago, according to new data from the US Department of Transportation. The 5.6% drop in vehicle miles traveled represents the largest decline ever recorded by DOT for a single month and marks the ...

Notes on Global Warming

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Proposed Climate Change Legislation by Ultimate Reductions Targets Climate change is riddled with deep uncertainty about basic questions, which results from factors such as lack of information, disagreement about what is known or even knowable, linguistic imprecision, statistical variation, measurement error, approximation and subjective judgment on the structure of the climate ...

Chasing the Carbon Cycle: NASA’s First Map of Carbon in the Troposphere

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Map of Carbon Dioxide Flows in Mid-Troposphere The image shows large scale patterns of carbon dioxide concentrations that are transported around the Earth by the general circulation of the atmosphere. The distribution of carbon dioxide in the mid-troposphere is strongly influenced by major surface sources of carbon dioxide and by ...

Biofuels Are Big, But Not Big Enough

Sunday, October 12th, 2008