Spring 2008 (YES! Magazine, Anna Fahey) – Last summer, Chinese President Hu Jintao toured the country in short sleeves to show that his countrymen could turn their air conditioners down. In China, conservation is “in.” Fashions do change.
Global warming denial is out of vogue. Unfortunately, though, the climate change do-nothing set is sporting a new [...]
Archive for the ‘Emissions Reduction’ Category
China Goes Climate Cool
Posted in Air Pollution, Carbon Credits, China, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Conservation, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency, Hydro, Legislation, Renewable Energy, Solar, Solar Thermal, U.S., Wind on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Japanese government to draft plan to boost green businesses
Posted in Air Pollution, Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Emissions Reduction, Japan, Recycling, Renewable Energy, Solar, Waste Management on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 11, 2008 (Yomiuri Shimbun) – The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry plans to expand the nation’s environment-focused business sector to about 83 trillion yen in 2015, from 59 trillion yen in 2005, sources said. In June, the ministry plans to draw up policies to achieve this target that will include proposals for popularizing environmentally [...]
6 Key steps to meet Singapore’s energy needs
Posted in Air Pollution, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency, Hydro, LNG, Legislation, Oil, Renewable Energy, Singapore, Solar, Solar Thermal on February 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
February 10, 2008 (Lin Yanqin and Esther Fung) Spiralling oil prices, growing global demand for energy, limited and uncertain supplies from oil-producing countries, climate change from greenhouse gas emissions – these are the challenges faced by a Singapore dependent on imports for energy needs.But even if Singapore has to be a “price-taker” in meeting its [...]
Letter from Shell CEO
Posted in Biodiesel, Carbon Offset, China, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Diesel, EU, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency, GHG, Green chemicals, Hybrid, Hydro, LNG, Legislation, Ocean/Tidal, Recycling, Renewable Energy, Solar, Traditional Energy, U.K., U.S. on January 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
From: Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive
To: All Shell employees
Date: 22 January 2008 Subject: Shell Energy Scenarios
Dear Colleagues
In this letter, I’d like to share reflections about how we see the energy future, and our preferred route to meeting the world’s energy needs. Industry, governments and energy users – that is, all of [...]
Fukuda pledges $40 billion to combat climate change
Posted in Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency, GHG, Japan, Legislation on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
January, 26, 2008 (Bloomberg) – Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda vowed to cut carbon emissions and earmark funds to help developing nations cope with global warming, in a bid to take a leading role in combating climate change. Over the next five years, Japan will spend $30 billion on new environmental technology at home [...]
Japan follows Europe by tapping offshore wind for power
Posted in Clean Energy, Emissions Reduction, Japan, Wind on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
January 19, 2008 (Reuters) – Overlooking a mountain lake a few hours drive from Tokyo, dozens of tall wind turbines spin in the breeze creating carbon-free power for the world’s fifth-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.A sudden change in breeze spins the turbines in a different direction, an apt symbol of Japan’s efforts to shift away [...]
Hong Kong Exchange plans emissions trading center
Posted in Carbon Credits, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Emissions Reduction on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
January 16, 2008 (Forbes) – Sitting right at the doorstep of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, China, top officials at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange do not need any more evidence to support their optimism about the market potential of a new initiative for a trading center for emissions-related products. All they need do [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
