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UN: New year carries green expectations
30 Dec 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
There is evidence the dawning New Year may carry “green” expectations of environmental action on climate change, according to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Old and new environmental benefactors are making enthusiastic pledges on the policy front. Voluntary action, on the other hand, continues to be a major driver on the ground. In December 2009, [...]
Next week (on December 10th and 11th) the Virtual Energy Forum will take place the second time. In June this year the organisers (PlatformQ) did the first edition of this online only event – and the response was so positive that they decided to do another one in December this year. The specialty of this [...]
Today at the EE Forum, industrial and building companies spoke about their activities to lower energy consumption through efficiency measures. Both Mitsubishi and Saint Gobain spoke about manufacturing initiatives and taking a “kaizen” approach to incremental improvements.
Mitsubishi has an “e-F@ctory” solution which is primarily based on intelligent comms & data collection throughout the IT systems [...]
At the 2nd Annual Euromoney-REEEP Energy Efficiency Finance and Investment Forum today in London, utilities, investment managers and energy efficiency experts spoke about the importance of energy efficiency in lowering carbon emissions.
Englefield Capital stated the market in Europe for energy efficiency, using existing technologies, is more than EUR 100 billion (excluding transport). However the energy [...]
UN climate chief: Talks must focus on the opportunities for green growth
30 Nov 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
We must now focus on the opportunities for green growth that can put the global economy onto a stable and sustainable path, said Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat in a statement for Poznan negotiations. Worries about the costs of combating climate change and rifts between European Union states are likely [...]
UN publishes proposals ahead of Poznan climate talks
21 Nov 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
The draft report assembled proposals presented by countries and observer organizations since last year’s U.N. talks in Bali, Indonesia, on what a new treaty should feature. The proposals will help lawmakers meeting at an upcoming U.N. climate summit in Poznan, Poland, to move closer to sealing a new agreement to confront potentially devastating global warming, [...]
New voluntary carbon standard set for forestry trading
18 Nov 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
Under rules set by the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), projects such as reducing the rate of tropical deforestation could get tradable credits for a voluntary market aimed at companies and individuals. “For the first time ever investors can rely on robust rules for crediting agriculture, agriculture and other land use projects,” said David Antonioli, chief [...]
After a very long first day with hundreds of interested people at our booth we just started the second day at Carbon Forum Asia. My impression is that the most important thing for most of the attendees here is to get practitioneers and decision makers on one table and discuss about possible solutions for the [...]
Carbon Forum Asia 2008 – the first impression
12 Nov 2008
At the moment I am attending the Carbon Forum Asia 2008, which is a Trade Fair and Conference focusing on the opportunities presented by Carbon Markets and mechanisms in the Asia Pacific region. If you are attending this Forum, you can find the reegle booth at the exhibition hall 401 (A15).
What happened until now?
The conference [...]
Last week REEEP launched a new site http://africa-toolkit.reeep.org/ where several interesting toolkits for renewable energey and energy efficiency will be available soon.
The first toolkit that was published is a “REEEP / UNIDO Training Package for Sustainable Energy Regulation and Policymarking for Africa” which provides an introduction to the key issues relating to the energy market [...]
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