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With energy and now food prices rising fast, first generation biofuels have again come under attack from scientists, skeptics and policy makers. But are all biofuel feedstocks created equal? And should they all be lumped together and farmers and industry chastised for and discouraged from investing in them?
Certainly there are those who think not. Greenbiz reported this week on initial progress towards developing an environmentally, socially and economically sound standard for biofuel production. The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels, a coalition of farmers, businesses, governments and non-profit groups, last week released a first draft of “Version Zero,” a set of principles for cultivating biofuel crops that it hopes will serve as a guide for producers worldwide.
PG&E strikes two solar deals today, which underlines a growing commitment to meet energy demand in California. On July 22...[read more]
Carbon may become the world's largest commodity market, according to recent investigations. The Financial Times reported late last week...[read more]
So you've heard about all the pitfalls in the voluntary carbon offset market, and you still want to buy. How...[read more]
Creating an international Cap-and-Share emissions trading system would be the best way of addressing the issues of climate change mitigation, Peak Oil and the economic and social dislocations that are likely to result from the massive scarcity rents being captured by oil and fossil fuel exporters, according to Feasta, the Foundation of Sustainability in Economics.[read more]
In the latest rebuff to Democrats latest energy-related, election year legislation Senate Republicans blocked passage of a national energy bill that would have slapped a windfall profits tax on Big Oil and created incentives to develop alternative energy sources.[read more]
With shortages of high-purity silicon still in the forecast, Pasadena’s Jacobs Engineering Group will manage engineering, procurement and construction management services for Estelux, which is moving foward with plans to construct a state-of-the-art polysilicon production facility – the first of its kind – in Ferrara, Italy.[read more]
Truckers in Spain have joined the fishing industry and gone on strike to protest rapidly rising fuel prices. As disruption over fuel and food costs and supplies mounts Saudi Arabia is calling for a meeting of oil producers and consumers to figure out a solution to what it says are unjustified price rises.[read more]
Unprecedented opportunities for capital investments in green companies and technologies exist in a range of global economies. 'Socially Responsible Investment'...[read more]
Earlier this week, auto part manufacturer, Robert Bosch announced its bid to purchase German-based, solar cell producer, Ersol, agreeing...[read more]
analysts and their approach to global warming in financial modelling[read more]
billions worth of 'clean' funds is filthy as hell say researchers studying the world's largest carbon trading market.[read more]
A study released last week by Point Carbon, a European consultancy and analyst service in global power and carbon markets, estimates that...[read more]
In a previous post (link), I covered how BIM (Building Information Modeling) was changing the Architectural, Engineering & Construction (AEC)...[read more]
The terms ‘cleantech’ or ‘green technologies’ have been applied to a wide array of processes, technologies, and services. Within this...[read more]
food riots and the causes behind high food prices.[read more]
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]
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