Archive for the ‘Climate-Change’ Category
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 ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
T. Boone Pickens, the proverbial man with a plan, says Obama made the right call by choosing Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff.Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) is a "BIG supporter" of shifting America's energy economy from oil to natural gas. Emanuel has apparently met with Boone on at ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Will a government led green revolution galvanize the foundering economy of the United States and set the stage for a new era of growth and prosperity? The question has attracted a significant amount of attention since the financial crisis began to escalate several months ago and stuck a wrench in ...
Posted in China, Climate-Change, Finance, India, Industry-News, Israel, Japan, Lifecycles, Silicon Valley, Solar-Energy, Start-ups, Sustainability, green-technology | No Comments »
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% ...
Posted in Agriculture, Batteries, Biofuels, CCS, Carbon, Climate-Change, Eco-Efficiency, Electricity, Finance, algae, biomass, ethanol, green-building | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Porous Power Technologies, a Colorado-based lithium ion battery company, has solved a major battery design dilemma by developing a new form of laminatable microporous battery separators. Here is a breakdown of the batteries more compelling attributes:
Twice the life and high-draw capacity of lithium-ion batteries
Minimal heat output
Batteries charge 50% faster ...
Posted in Batteries, Climate-Change, Electricity, Energy-Storage, Finance, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Private Equity, Renewable Fuels, Research, Start-ups, Sustainability, Venture Capital, materials | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, India, Industry-News, Lifecycles, Natural Resources, Peak-Oil, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Renewable Fuels, Research, Sustainability, Water, law | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Posted in Agriculture, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, Lifecycles, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Russia, Sustainability, law | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Agriculture, Antarctica, Biofuels, Bioremediation, CCS, Carbon, China, Climate-Change, Natural Resources, Policy, Regulatory and Legal Trends, Research, Sustainability, Water, biomass | No Comments »
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Biofuels may not be as bad as many of its critics believed.
Speculators were the principal cause for the rise in corn prices during the summer months, according to a new report by Global Insight, a Boston, Mass.-based consulting firm. In other words, biofuels are not to blame.
"The record high prices ...
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