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Archive for October 2009
To be honest it comes as a slight disappointment that just weeks before the Copenhagen meeting opens Dec. 7 the United Nations have to signal that we have to scale back expectations about the outcome. Janos Pasztor, director of the secretary-general’s Climate Change Support Team, said that it is hard to say how far the [...]
News from South East Asia and the Pacific (October 09)
28 Oct 2009
by Maaike Göbel, REEEP South East Asia and Pacific - Category: REEEP, Regional News
Find below the most interesting news from the last month from South East Asia and the Pacific:
Clean Diesel Opportunities in Pacific Island Countries
ReEx Capital Oceania prepared a report on the promotion of clean diesel efficiency technologies and fuel switching to biofuels (CNO), including: Catalyst and other efficiency improvements technologies, [...]
An interview with Miguel Mendonça from the World Future Council on feed-in tariffs
27 Oct 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: REEEP
I just read a very interesting interview with Miguel Mendonça (World Future Council Research Manager) on feed-in tariffs. He was interviewed by Xavier Lemaire who is responsible for the Sustainable Energy Regulation Network (SERN) at REEEP.
Miguel Mendoça is the author of “Feed-in Tariffs – accelerating the deployment of renewable energy”. He has co written [...]
New studies prove once again the enormous impact global warming has on the delicate climate of the polar region. These observations came Thursday from Richard Spinrad, head of research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in USA, in releasing the annual update of science’s Arctic report card.
IEA World Energy Outlook 2009 Preview – Climate Change Excerpt
22 Oct 2009
by Florian Bauer - Category: News
The IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka recently released a special early excerpt of the upcoming World Energy Outlook 2009 at the Bangkok UNFCCC meeting entitled “How the energy sector can deliver on a climate agreement in Copenhagen”. The paper lays out the latest greenhouse-gas emissions trends and shows a pathway for the energy sector to [...]
New regulations launching a system of feed-in tariffs (FIT) for renewable energy were announced by India’s Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), based in New Dehli, on September 17, 2009. This is a German model meaning an obligation for utilities to purchase, at a set price, the electricity generated by any renewable energy system. This means [...]
The first substantial renewable energy project in Cyprus
07 Oct 2009
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
Cyprus has moved closer to reaching the European Union’s renewable energy target by 2020 (20% energy from renewable sources), and to reaching its specific target of supplying 13 % from such sources. The first windfarm in Cypress, near Paphos, owned by the local DK Wind Supply Ltd., is the largest of its kind in the [...]
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