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Archive for May 2010
Deforestation is responsible for 17% of global carbon emission, yet each year an area the size of England is destroyed. Growing populations, agriculture and the timber industry are amongst the reasons that today the market values forests more destroyed than standing.
US Government Funds CSP Solar Projects in US and MENA Region
27 May 2010
by Peter Richards - Category: News
In the last 15 days the US government made two announcements regarding the promotion of concentrating solar (CSP) technologies. Yesterday at the MENA Power conference in Cairo, the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) announced three grants for feasibility studies regarding CSP projects in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. The Egyptian CSP project by Taqa Arabia [...]
New Compendium of Best U.S. Practices in Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy
25 May 2010
by Florian Bauer - Category: Contributed News, News, REEEP
Three leading energy efficiency and renewable energy organizations – the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), the Alliance to Save Energy (Alliance) and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) – have jointly released their Compendium of Best Practices: Sharing Local and State Successes in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy from the United States, [...]
To stay within tolerable temperature limits, worldwide emissions must stop rising before 2020, must be cut by at least half of their 1990 levels by 2050, and must continue to fall thereafter. The EU is serious about ensuring that an ambitious and legally binding global treaty is agreed at the UN climate change conference in [...]
Energy Efficiency Visionaries honoured in Washington
20 May 2010
by Vince Reardon - Category: Events
The EE Global Forum and Exposition in Washington DC was the setting for the honouring of several champions of energy efficiency from around the world. At the plenary luncheon on May 11th, four awards were given, in front of an audience of 500 stakeholders. The first award went to Dr. Joseph Oteng-Adjei, Minister for Energy [...]
Since opening its 18th session on 3 May, the commission has had to deal with numerous warnings on many dangers ahead of us. Sadly, it doesn’t come as a surprise when U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates that ”Few of the challenges identified at the Rio Earth Summit have been adequately tackled” at the 18th [...]
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