More than a month after the conclusion of COP15 — the UN climate talks in Copenhagen — negotiators and observers alike are still grappling with what to make of the Copenhagen Accord that resulted from the summit. Agreements under the United Nations Framework Convention on… Read More »
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Meet Qinetiq: A British defense technology company, Qinetiq, is testing a new type of lithium-ion battery based on lithium-ion iron-sulfide chemistry for hybrids and electric vehicles that could be substantially cheaper and more powerful than existing batteries. — Technology Review Tioga, SunDurance Bag NJ Solar Schools… Read More »
Top Green Stories of the Decade: Take a stroll through 10 years of green headline grabbers, including these stories: climate took over the environmental movement, local got vocal, we got a raft of new body-invaders to fret about (like BPA and PVC), and green went pop.… Read More »
Should developed countries be able to meet their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by investing in carbon capture projects in developing nations? That’s one of the many questions negotiators in Copenhagen have considered this week at the ongoing international climate talks, weighing the case for… Read More »
Greenwash or Real Deal?: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Copenhagen that Iran, a fossil fuel giant, wants to dive into renewable energy and stitch cooperative links with other developing nations to develop non-fossil fuel energy,” including solar and wind. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Road Ahead for… Read More »
Trade Tension at Copenhagen: “China is demanding that a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases prohibit nations from imposing trade sanctions, further pitting the world’s No. 1 emitter against U.S. lawmakers.” — Bloomberg How Fisker Ended Up in Delaware: Reporter Neil King Jr. details California startup… Read More »
COPENHAGEN — The weekend break between the two weeks of the Copenhagen climate negotiations showed two things: on one hand hundreds of thousands of people around the world are willing to hold rallies to support an international climate agreement (by some estimates 100,000 alone in… Read More »
COPENHAGEN — The time for business leaders to affect the Copenhagen climate change negotiations is now, Tim Flannery, chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, proclaimed Saturday night while holding up a globe in one hand and a skull in the other. The props might have… Read More »
COPENHAGEN — UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer described the state of the climate negotiations at the Copenhagen talks on Thursday as making “good progress” in a few key areas, including a growing consensus around developing a new technology mechanism that will accelerate technology development and… Read More »
While I’ve been skeptical of electric vehicle infrastructure Better Place’s grand ambitions to sell EV service like cell phones and cover small countries with its network, there’s one region that is actually a good fit with Better Place’s EV dreams: Denmark. I sat down with some… Read More »
GE Chief Calls for Swift, Certain Climate Policy: “What’s most important for the U.S. is that we go from Copenhagen, go into 2010, and have the courage to act on clean energy,” General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt told a conference on renewable energy at Clemson University… Read More »
Almost a decade after launching the world’s first carbon fund, the World Bank said it has learned a series of lessons about the regulation, oversight and scaling process of the carbon funds and greenhouse reduction projects that it has overseen. The World Bank, which spoke about… Read More »
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