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A product of the New York City public school system, Andrew Burger went on to study geology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, work in the wholesale money and capital markets for a major Japanese bank and earn an MBA in finance.
Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Business Environment executive Jeremy Bentham and team addressed and fielded questions from the press regarding the company’s “Energy Scenarios to 2050” research and analysis during the first of a planned series of live Shell Dialogues web chats earlier today, May 15.
3 Hard Truths
Broadly speaking, “Three Hard Truths” underlie and are driving developments in the global energy industry, according to Shell’s analysis. Emerging nations have been increasingly participating in globalization for the past ten years and more and will continue to do so, creating a significant “discontinuity” on the demand side of the global energy production and distribution system, Bentham noted during the web chat - one that conventional energy suppliers, as well as governments and international agencies, have failed to adjust and adapt to in timely fashion, much less foresee, he might have added.
There's a glaring need for pro-regulatory perspectives to be included in the cost-benefit analyses used by government regulators' decision making processes, particularly when it comes to energy and the environment, argues NYU School of Law's Richard Revesz.[read more]
USAID, NASA and development partners have released the beta version of the Climate Mapper tool for SERVIR Viz, 3-D visualization software and an initial accompanying data set designed to assist development planners gauge the effects of climate change on any given landscape.[read more]
Ardour Capital has been a pioneer when it comes to investing in alternative energy companies. Managing director Walter Nasdeo talks to Triple Pundit about the company’s business, as well as recent stock market performance and prospects.[read more]
Governors and representatives of 18 U.S. states signed a Declaration on Climate Change during the Yale Conference of Governors April 17-18 commemorating the centennial of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt planting the seeds for what would grow into the conservation movement and the U.S. National Parks System. [read more]
Leading multinational manufacturers, members of the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Council, announced the results of their initial survey and effort to promote greenhouse gas emissions reporting and reduction throughout their supply chain networks.[read more]
The UN’s Kyoto Protocol and Clean Development Mechanism, cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions trading systems—nothing but a con and the latest gambit by the international - predominantly Western - political, corporate and media elite to further enrich and secure themselves while doing less than nothing to address environmental degradation and climate change, claims New Delhi’s Centre for Science and Environment.[read more]
Research by the Kenexa Corp. indicates that organizations’ environmental activities and records can significantly influence the views employees’ and potential hires have about managements’ credibility, trustworthiness, and ability to manage and lead, as well as workers’ job satisfaction and employee retention.[read more]
Clean energy shares weren’t able to avoid the financial and economic malaise and uncertainty that spreading across stock markets during 2008’s first quarter, according to New Energy Finance.[read more]
Two significant and contrasting news items related to climate change and energy appear in the April 23 edition of the International Herald Tribune: Europe will increasingly rely on coal to meet its growing electricity needs while two US VCs team up with Norway’s ThinkGlobal to manufacture recyclable, emissions-free electric vehicles in California.[read more]
Growing concerns about aging and inadequate water and wastewater treatment infrastructure and technology is spurring investment in a wide range of new companies, such as Aqwise, looking to take advantage of natural means and processes to devise new and cheaper means of ecological wastewater treatment and sanitation.[read more]
Renewable energy investment and activity is taking a hit due to housing market weakness, bank losses and financial industry turmoil, the credit crunch and the slowing economy but capital is still flowing in and the sector as a whole is relatively buoyant, according to new New Energy Finance research.[read more]
The second highest imperative for life as we know it, conflicts over water resources and management are coming into sharp relief, exacerbated by growing population, land use, climate change and a surge of investment.[read more]
The NSF announced two breakthroughs that help pave the way for the development and widespread use of a variety of green fuels derived from cellulosic biomass such as corn stover, wood waste, switchgrass and fast growing poplar trees. Criticism of such efforts continues, however. [read more]
Want to learn about oil dependence, make like one of our national leaders and formulate energy policy in response to a threat to global oil supplies? Check out the curriculum box set of Oil ShockWave at the Web site of the same name.[read more]
Though it’s quickly grown into a multi-billion dollar market and template for other emissions trading systems, the EU’s ETS has exhibited some significant growing pains and continues to generate debate. An interim analysis and report of the ETS Phase I trail period finds that modest emissions reductions were realized and, more importantly, the pathway to greater reductions is being paved. [read more]
GridPoint Inc.and Duke Energy announced positive results from what is believed to be the first commercial test of utility-controlled “smart charging” for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).[read more]
Academic institutions in Georgia, Minnesota and New York have been invited to represent their states in a joint US-Swedish renewable energy institute that aims to spearhead development and adoption of renewable energy technology.[read more]
The DoE's National Renewable Energy Lab announced MoU's for two public-private partnerships in the past two days: one on the Hawaiian island of Maui where it will work with UPC to research and develop wind energy resources in line with Gov. Lingle's Clean Energy Initiative, and a second with Conoco-Phillips and Iowa State U. to develop biomass-to-fuel conversion technologies making use of corn stalks, hardy grasses, fast growing trees and other non-food vegetable organic matter.[read more]
Foresters, climatolgists and environmental agencies are devoting much time and effort to figure out a way to include deforestation abatement into the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development and carbon trading schemes. A recently released discussion paper examines the potential effects carbon credits would have on forest conservation and use.[read more]
Israel’s southernmost Eilot region is a special place in several respects. For one, the desert blooms here, thanks to an aquifer that has turned it into an agricultural center. It also holds a unique place in the hearts and minds of the world’s birds, ornithologists and birding enthusiasts, as it in the migratory route for hundreds of species making their way north to Eurasia and their breeding grounds. It’s also a budding center of entrepreneurial spirit and renewable energy, home to the Arava Power Co., which is hatching plans to build a 500 kWhr solar farm on Kibbutz Ketura.[read more]
Streamlining and expanding the UNFCCC’s Clean Development Mechanism will be key priorities for 2008, according to Rajesh Kumar Sethi, the recently appointed chair of the CDM Executive Board.[read more]
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