December 24, 2007 (Bloomberg) – The world’s lawmakers should abandon attempts to set “optimistic” targets for greenhouse-gas emissions, said Bjorn Lomborg, the author of the best-selling book “The Skeptical Environmentalist. ”The U.S. and developing nations on Dec. 15 agreed at United Nations-sponsored talks to negotiate a new global-warming treaty by 2009, after the U.S. accepted [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Emission Cuts Are `Feel Good,’ Won’t Save World, Lomborg Says
Posted in Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Emissions Reduction, Solar, Wind on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
China has made active response to climate challenge
Posted in Air Pollution, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
December 24, 2007 (United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, Khalid Malik) – In outgoing 2007, almost all important intergovernmental panels have so far focused their core topics for discussion on climate change, and this year will surely go down into the annuals of the world history as a crucial year.Internationally, a great deal of talks [...]
Solar and Clean Energy Developments in India
Posted in Biomass, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Coal, Geothermal, Hydro, India, Small-hydro, Solar, Wind on December 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
December 25, 2007 (Business Standard) – When Internet search major Google Inc decided to power its “Googleplex” in Mountain View with one of the largest solar panel installations in the world last year, it was a big vote for solar energy, which presently provides less than 1 per cent of the energy generated worldwide.
Though the [...]
Indian Solar Energy Firm Says Carbon Credits Don’t Work
Posted in Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Climate Change, India, Solar, Voluntary Carbon Market on December 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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Keya Acharya * IPS/IFEJ
December 21, 2007 (Keya Acharya * IPS/IFEJ) – A small but successful solar energy company involved in rural electrification in India is complaining that the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM) has been of no practical use [...]
50m gallon biodiesel facility completed in India
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Cleantech venture capital, Ethanol, India, Transportation on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
December 19, 2007 (Biofuel Review) – AE Biofuels (OTCBB: AEBF) has completed the construction of a 50 million gallons per year biodiesel facility located in Kakinada, India. The company has also announced that it has commenced the construction of a glycerin refinery adjacent to the biodiesel facility. The additional refining processes will, says the company, [...]
Nanosolar is shipping printed solar cells
Posted in Cleantech venture capital, Solar on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
December 18, 2007 (MIT Technology Review) – Thin-film solar panels that can be printed in high-throughput processes could make solar as cheap as electricity from the grid. Or at least that has long been the promise. But while the panels have shown quite a bit of promise in the lab, they’ve been very difficult to [...]
PG&E signs first U.S. agreement to buy ocean energy
Posted in Clean Energy, Ocean/Tidal, Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreement on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
December 18, 2007 (Reuters) – Utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company became the country’s first utility on Tuesday to agree to buy renewable electricity made by the ebb and flow of ocean waves. The energy will be captured by several buoys bobbing 2.5 miles off the California coast and then transmitted to shore by an [...]
Indian VCs ready to finance carbon credit business
Posted in Carbon Credits, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, India on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
December 19, 2007 (The Times of India) – The Indian carbon sector is getting hot. Venture capital firms are making a beeline to set up exclusive carbon funds for clean development projects (CDM) which have the potential to generate carbon credits. Kick-starting the process is IFCI Venture Capital Fund, which is planning to float Green [...]
Sharp to Build Osaka Plant for 100 Billion Yen (US$883 million)
Posted in Cleantech venture capital, Japan, Solar on December 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
December 15, 2007 (Bloomberg) – Sharp Corp., Japan’s biggest maker of solar batteries, will spend about 100 billion yen ($883 million) to build a solar battery plant in Osaka, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing Chairman Katsuhiko Machida. The company will construct the factory for thin-film solar cells in Sakai in Osaka prefecture, next to a [...]
China Huadian Sells Carbon Dioxide under CDM Projects
Posted in Carbon Credits, China, Emissions Reduction, GHG on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
December 17, 2007 (SinoCast) – China Huadian Corporation just signed a framework agreement of overall strategic cooperation with UK-based EcoSecurities Group PLC and Germany-headed Deutsche Bank, involving four clean development mechanism (CDM) projects. The Chinese power generation group will annually sell 3 million tons of carbon dioxide generated by its four super-critical power plants to [...]
