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The ongoing food crises in 36 countries around the globe are a cause of worry for major institutions such as the World Bank because the problems signal profound problems of disbalance in the world economy. The main reasons behind the high food prices in poor countries are the high oil price and market liberalization shocks. Biofuel crops are hardly a factor. Climate change is something that has played a role for as long as everyone can remember and it's only being recognized now.
In recent months, the world has witnessed various food riots in poor countries around the globe and the general conclusion bankers in their dossy offices have drawn are that some countries apparently really don't have much of a buffer zone left - hence the upset.
Based on the recently released National Geographic Greendex report, citizens of Brazil and India rank the highest for having the...[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]
Carbon consulting to the voluntary markets, Merrill Lynch and IFC join ranks to do it. Fun article about the voluntary carbon trading markets in relation to the creation of biodiversity and agriculture opportunities.[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]
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]
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]
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]
As is the case more broadly, shares of alternative energy businesses are getting hit hard of late…But the fundamentals underlying the sector provide support and portend that investors may look back on this period and see an excellent buying opportunity, argue analysts at London’s Ambrian Partners.[read more]
Though proposed means and methods vary, it appears likely that federal greenhouse gas emissions legislation, and a national cap-and-trade scheme, will be introduced in the U.S. sometime during the new president's first term, one that has the potential to reach US$1 trillion, more than twice the size of the European Union’s.[read more]
Green legislation and technological innovation are rewriting the rules of the game for the energy and power industries. Companies such as NTR have capitalized on the trend, using a public-private partnership model to transform and grow their businesses.[read more]
As much as I love to read, turning pages one by one, breaking a new paperback book into a...[read more]
The Aptera has received a lot of press during the past couple of months, thanks in part to two...[read more]
UPS has secured a lease for 42 electric three-wheeled utility vehicles with green in mind, as in the bengamins....[read more]
With political and regulatory change in the air and on the ground, renewable energy has risen quickly to become Wall Street and the City’s latest moveable feast. Well organized, funded and staffed wind power companies were among the first to attract the attention of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Testimony to just how quickly capital and labor can be mobilized these days, successful start-ups, such as Dublin’s Airtricity, have grown into attractive targets for the world’s largest power and energy companies.[read more]
The car of the future is not only going to come standard with a hybrid powered engine; rather, the...[read more]
Green goes under ground, six feet under and currently being spear-headed in Oregon by and environmentally-friendly funeral products dealer...[read more]
Say hello to the green exchange, spearheaded by a leading cast of energy and environmental brokers -investors- who are...[read more]
Scott Leonard founded Indigenous Designs over 14 years ago on the backbone of imported fair trade organic clothing. When...[read more]
On Friday, June 16, 2006 Samuel Brittan wrote in the Financial Times (page 11) that "the most likely trigger for...[read more]
The American Solar Energy Society reports that by 2030 one in four workers will be wearing green collars at work....[read more]
At last week’s Point Carbon Conference in New York City (October 29-31), policy professionals and industry leaders met to discuss...[read more]
The World Economic Forum released its annual ranking of global economic competitiveness last week, drawing attention not only to which countries prominent business leaders and economists believe have the best equipped economies, but to the deep and wide-ranging impact statistical economic indicators have, and how we define economic progress, as well as our social and environmental well-being. [read more]
The consequences of global warming are becoming an increasingly important variable for institutional investors when assessing a company’s economic viability. In a recent statement, Calpers...[read more]
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