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18/5/2013
In a 2010 speech before a packed ballroom of university students in Sydney, Shi Zhengrong, founder of Chinese solar-panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, listed the people who had been important in his rise to fame and riches.Two ...
1/5/2013
Evoking the international call for maritime distress, 36 groups stood united today in opposition to a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) port proposed to be built off of Jones Beach, NY. The groups, from across New York and New Jersey, call on Gov. ...
24/4/2013
Vitomir Simic, 53, points at the faded, black and white photograph of his parents, still hanging on the wall of the home he abandoned in Radljevo, a village south-west of Belgrade, Serbia. Its modest frame hides only an inch of the giant ...
22/4/2013
It's Earth Day 2013, and it's a good time to step back and see how we've been doing since the first one 1970. That's when 20 million people took to the streets to protest rivers on fire, DDT-poisoned birds, sewage on beaches and a devastating oil ...
22/4/2013
2012 seems set to go down in history as the year in which climate change became real for the United States. Over a period of six months, New York City flooded, the biggest drought in half a century settled into the Midwest, and wildfires burned ...
21/4/2013
On a showery afternoon last week in West London, a ripple of enthusiasm went through the trading floor of CF Partners, a privately owned financial company. The price of carbon allowances, shown in green lights on a board hanging from the ceiling, ...
18/4/2013
The European Parliament this week voted 334-315 (with 60 abstentions) against a controversial "back-loading" plan that aimed to boost the flagging price of carbon, which since 2008 has fallen from about 31 euros per tonne to about 4 euros (about ...
17/4/2013
The
world will see a sharp drop in the number of new wind turbines installed this year after record growth in 2012, a report by the Global Wind
Energy Council (GWEC) said.
It predicted a strong recovery in 2014 but also cited risks to ...
17/4/2013
Billy Parish is the president and co-founder of Mosaic, a two-year-old Internet “crowdfunding” service that lets individual investors put their money into commercial solar projects and earn a rate of return that currently beats anything offered ...
12/4/2013
Carbon markets have lost us more than 15 years in the battle against climate change yet we continue to plough forward with scaling them up. Why?
Some hope that this global expansion of carbon markets will revive their fortunes, helping ...
12/4/2013
Clean
energy research and low-carbon transportation are priorities in President Obama's $3.7 trillion budget request. But the document unveiled yesterday offers only a modest stab at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate ...
12/4/2013
Analysts from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) have recently published a special report on Climate and the Defence Force. To those concerned about human-caused climate change, this report could be viewed as a welcome turnaround. ...
10/4/2013
Asia is moving along a dangerous path that will threaten its
energy security, worsen environmental damages and widen the gap between rich and poor unless the region dramatically changes its course of
energy use, the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) ...
9/4/2013
When the winds of change blow, says an old Chinese proverb, some build walls, and others build wind mills. These same words closed the meeting in March of the Climate Parliament, a forum in Brussels that brought together legislators from around ...
6/4/2013
Our planet is already showing the stress of radical climate change, affecting the Earth right before our eyes. The climate is different than when we were kids, and it is changing more rapidly than ever before. Accordingly, the underlying thesis ...
4/4/2013
Climate finance involves flows of funds from developed to developing nations to help poorer countries to cut their emissions and adapt to climate change. The sources and governance of climate finance has been widely debated since the 2009 climate ...
3/4/2013
World Bank President Dr. Kim has spoken repeatedly about the damages that climate change will inflict on our children and grandchildren and the poorest throughout the
world. This is a welcome signal that he understands the consequences of climate ...
3/4/2013
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who yesterday vowed to boost the lender’s contribution to easing the effects of climate change, was urged by non-profit organizations to stop financing fossil-fuel projects.
In a letter sent to Kim ...
1/4/2013
It’s been a long, dark winter in Germany. In fact, there hasn’t been this little sun since people started tracking such things back in the early 1950s. Easter is around the corner, and the streets of Berlin are still covered in ice and snow. But ...
27/3/2013
What do you do when local opposition to an offshore wind farm project dries up, when the NIMBY crowd runs out of steam, when the federal government gives the green light and extends every permit and courtesy the law will allow, when the ...
26/3/2013
China will have to raise up to $243 billion a year by 2020 to finance clean
energy development, said a report commissioned by Beijing which will be presented to the government this month.
Premier Li Keqiang this month pledged more action ...
13/3/2013
Norway's buzzing little market for pure electric cars has in its very success shown the severe drawbacks to a model that relies on public subsidies worth as much as $8,200 per car, every year.
Car makers like Nissan, Mitsubishi, Peugeot ...
13/3/2013
The global deployment of
renewable energy from wind, solar and biofuels grew in 2012 but the income from the sector remained flat due to the plummeting costs for solar photovoltaic panels.The revenue for the three technologies increased ...
8/3/2013
Peter "Pete" Seeger is a 93-year old U.S. folk legend who resides near Wappingers Falls in southern New York. He can be spotted occasionally on the traffic-heavy Route 9, flanked by
world peace signs and armed with a banjo.
Activists ...
28/2/2013
Increased demand for biofuel production has driven farmers and forest communities from Brazil to Indonesia off their land, threatening those people's wellbeing and food security, a report from GRAIN says.
Research conducted by the ...