Johnson Controls Predicts Upturn In Efficiency Segment
March 8, 2010Leave a Comment
Green Building Block
Last Friday, Johnson Controls reported FQ1/10 financial results. While we don’t formally cover Johnson Controls, the company’s results and management’s outlook are of particular interest to us given the firm’s leadership position in the building efficiency market. In our view, here are the key take-aways from the earnings report:
Result
Fiscal first quarter (ended [...]
Business Leaders Opt to Measure and Report
February 18, 2010Leave a Comment
The secret is that major corporations, even in the United States, are voluntarily signing up and reporting their carbon.
Organizations like the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Global Reporting Initiative are tracking corporate emissions at the request of companies. CRD Analytics, which has a leading index of the Sustainability 100, noted that these companies outperformed the [...]
Credits from Cows
February 16, 20101 Comment
Cows give Point Carbon their One Thousandth Offset Project.
Offset projects, which provide carbon credits for companies so that they can reduce their carbon footprint, have had success in Europe. In the EU, carbon reduction is mandated by the Kyoto protocol. Europe has also faced fuel and energy prices that outweigh those in the US. As [...]
$28.4mm Tax Credit for Nebraska Facility
January 18, 2010Leave a Comment
Novozymes gets USD 28.4 million tax credit to advance biofuels production, create jobs
Novozymes has received an Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit of USD 28.4 million from the Obama Administration for the construction of its new enzyme manufacturing facility in Blair, Nebraska. The facility, which will produce enzymes used to make advanced biofuels, will create more [...]
9th Wall Street Green Trading Summit
January 7, 2010Leave a Comment
[ March 23, 2010 to March 24, 2010. ]
Focus on New Environmental Market Opportunities for 2010
The Times Center, New York
Each year the Wall Street Green Trading Summit sets the agenda on topics, speakers, insights and networking with industry experts. Come to the defining event in the rapidly evolving green trading markets.
Agenda
Following the Copenhagen climate meetings, the Wall Street Green Trading Summit IX is [...]
Electrofuel Funding Opportunity from DOE
January 7, 2010Leave a Comment
Stimulus Update
The purpose of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E) is to create transformational new energy technologies and systems through funding and managing R&D efforts. Anticipated award size is from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000, with the minimum amount for each award being $500,000 and the maximum amount $10,000,000. Proposals due January [...]
New Orleans: Credit and Capital Environment of 2010
January 7, 2010Leave a Comment
[ January 11, 2010 to January 13, 2010. ]
Come to New Orleans to Move Project Deals Forward
Leading Project Developers, Capital Providers and Contractors
Leading project developers, capital providers and contractors will gather at the 2nd annual Projects & Money to move project deals forward in the credit and capital environment of 2010. Here, in one place, the entire project finance community—in power, renewables, transmission, [...]
Deutsche Bank: Paying for Renewable Energy
December 16, 20091 Comment
TLC at the Right Price.
Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors (DBCCA) has released a new report that looks at funding for renewable energy. Using TLC (Transparency, Longevity and Certainty), they looked at the factors that support investor confidence and renewable energy markets.
Renewable energy financing has been affectedc by investor’s lack of sophistication in energy markets and [...]
“Stop Gambling with our Future”
December 15, 2009Leave a Comment
Deal with Climate Change
There are some things that speak louder, and more clearly, than anyone could have imagined. But the UN Foundation has done just that for climate change. They created a full deck of playing cards featuring a selection of the words from the more than 2,000 text, photo and video submissions (from more [...]
Business Sends Letter
December 15, 20091 Comment
Leading U.S. Businesses Call on President Obama to Achieve a Global Climate Deal
COPENHAGEN – More than two-dozen major U.S. businesses sent a letter to President Obama today encouraging him to secure a strong climate change agreement with significant emissions reduction targets and substantial new financing commitments from developed countries, including the United States.
Saying “our environment [...]