Three EPRI Scientists Selected
July 12, 2010 by Vincent · Leave a Comment
PALO ALTO, Calif. – July 7, 2010 — The Electric Power Research Institute announced today that three of its scientists have been selected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as lead authors for its fifth assessment report on climate change, which will be released in 2013-2014.
They will serve on the [...]
Coca-Cola’s Wilsonville Expansion Enhances Sustainability, Creates Jobs
More than 250 people mark facility’s “Green Ribbon Cutting”
(Portland, Ore.)—June 10, 2010—Coca-Cola Enterprises officially marked the expansion of its Wilsonville, Oregon, facility today, with a “green ribbon-cutting” ceremony including gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber, Wilsonville Mayor Tim Knapp and members of Coca-Cola Enterprises’ senior leadership team.
The company recently consolidated three [...]
Most Large Companies Plan to Increase Spending on Climate
June 2, 2010 by Vincent · Leave a Comment
Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters — Seventy percent of firms with revenue of $1 billion or more say they plan to increase spending on climate change initiatives in the next two years, a global survey reported on Tuesday.
Nearly half of the 300 corporate executives who responded to a survey conducted for the accounting [...]
Central America Starts REDD Plan with Donation from Germany
May 19, 2010 by Vincent · Leave a Comment
May 14, 2010 – Central America and the Dominican Republic launched a new plan backed by Germany to combat climate change in the region thanks to a €12 million (about $15 million) donation [...]
Oceanic Disruption
May 9, 2010 by Vincent · Leave a Comment
Half of all our oxygen comes from the ocean, by a CO2-oxygen exchange cycle not as completely understood as we would like. Climate change is only one risk from excess CO2 in the air. Ocean acidification is another. It alone could be reason enough to reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
The [...]
A Precarious Environment
May 9, 2010 by Vincent · Leave a Comment
Climate change critics seize on uncertainty of global temperature warming to insist that nothing is really changing. But temperature is only one indicator of the effects of industrial society expansion. Industrial societies became resource-intensive consumption societies, underpinned by mining, extraction, manufacturing, and disposal. Industrial agriculture displaced small-holder, diversified farms. People [...]
UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Group Report Calls for New Initiative to Bring Clean Energy to Poor
May 7, 2010 by Vincent · Leave a Comment
A report issued today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change calls for expanding energy access to more than two billion people, and for scaling up efforts to increase energy efficiency and clean energy efforts to meet the climate challenge and realize the Millennium Development [...]
Why CFOs need a financial strategy for energy and carbon
April 21, 2010 by Vincent · Leave a Comment
Aysu Katun, Reuters — According to a report by the independent research firm Verdantix, soaring energy costs, climate change compliance issues and significant untapped cost savings make energy [...]
Local Women to Engage in Climate Change Decision Making
April 16, 2010 by Cynthia · Leave a Comment
Ghana –A project aimed to achieve long term impact on the promotion of women’s rights and gender responsiveness of climate change policy making, mitigation and adaptation measures in Ghana has been launched in Accra.
Dubbed “Building Capacities to Influence Climate Change Policies from a Gender Perspective,” the project has among its objectives promoting women’s active participation [...]
U.N. Climate Talks Resume, Little Chance of 2010 Deal
April 9, 2010 by Vincent · Leave a Comment
Alister Doyle, Reuters — Climate negotiators meet in Bonn on Friday for the first time since the fractious Copenhagen summit but with scant hopes of patching together a new legally binding U.N. deal in 2010.
Delegates from 170 nations gathered on Thursday for the April 9-11 meeting that will seek to [...]