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Mistake puts all in question?

Reuters wrote on Monday that scientist called for the IPPC  (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to undergo for thorough reform in terms of sticking to solid scientific evidence and avoid policy advocacy in order to stay credible.
The IPPC has been criticized over the last few months about admitting its 2007 report wrongly warning about Himalayan [...]

New key source for sustainable energy solutions

In late August, the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program-ESMAP launched its new website, which provides  access to information on  ESMAP’s programs, activities, knowledge products and achievements. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program is a global, multidonor technical assistance program aimed at promoting environmentally sustainable energy solutions for poverty reduction and economic growth. Their new Web [...]

A new era arising

Walter Kohn, Ph.D., a Nobel Laureate, expects direct wind and solar power to become the world’s main sources of energy over the next decades. The last decade has already seen an increase of factor 90 for solar and factor 10 for wind energy.
This new Sol/Wind era is brought about by the need to satisfy our [...]

Aid and environment

When lives are at stake after natural disaster, environmental issues tend to be disregarded in the effort. Yet situation where more charcoal becomes necessary due to uncooked food-aid and the increased amount of rubbish from packaging can leave an area vulnerable to further problems in the future.

China invests more in “new energy”

The State Information Center in China was cited that a “newly developing energy industries” plan involving $739 billion in investment through 2020 has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and will be submitted to the State Council for approval.
Officials announced that such energy industries include nuclear, wind, solar and biomass energy, as [...]

I just read a new publication from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies called “From Silos to Systems: Issues in Clean Energy and Climate Change” which I would like to recommend to all of you. It is a comprehensive report on the work of the Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) Network of the [...]

Building Solar India

While counties across the world are dithering about climate mitigation, India is getting ready to launch its Solar Mission under the National Action Plan on Climate Change.
At the moment, India produces less than 5 MW of solar power a year. Under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, India aims to generate 1.000 MW by [...]

Ministers and businesses agree on accelerating transition

Last Thursday The Financial Times, Le Monde and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article which set out possible economic benefits that could be achieved by increasing the EU’s target of 20% to a more ambitious 30%.  Ministers of the UK, Germany and France laid out their visions for simultaneously increasing those targets and achieving better [...]

My footprint

Europe’s ecological footprint is currently more than twice its regenerative capacity. The issue has been discussed by EU ministers at an informal meeting in the Environment Council and it was concluded that if we don’t manage to use the materials we have in sustainable way we won’t be able to succeed in achieving a resource-efficient [...]

REN21 yesterday released its annual publication, the Renewables 2010 Global Status Report, together with its twin report – UNEP’s annual Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010. In 2009, for the second year in a row, both the US and Europe added more power capacity from renewable sources such as wind and solar than conventional [...]

 

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