Lobbyists for US cap and trade face daunting task
The US Senate's stalled climate bill is getting a last big push from an unlikely ally - a group of energy companies who say a carbon market will help them get financing for the next generation of energy productionBut intensive lobbying by these climate bill proponents - including heavyweights like Duke Energy, Shell Oil Co and General Electric Co - may not be enough to counter powerful opposition and get a bil... Read More
Seeing REDD
Accounting for more than half of the world's standing forest and 55 percent of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions through its destruction, the Amazon is both a villain and a victim of climate change. By Stuart Grudgings.The boat plows on through the brackish green river, taking Jose de Oliveira Quadro on a journey that may have been futile a few years ago.
Strangers have been fishing in his village’s ... Read More
Scientists examine causes for lull in warming
25/02/2010 |
Climate scientists must do more to work out how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world temperatures fit their theories of global warming, if they are to persuade an increasin...
US stands out for climate-change skepticism
25/02/2010 |
Many Americans are skeptical about global warming and that makes it harder to get a bill through Congress...
US solar thermal firm in deal for China power project
11/01/2010 |
US solar thermal power company eSolar, whose investors include Google Inc, said it has reached a deal with a Chinese power equipment maker to build a 2,000 MW solar thermal power p...
French nuclear deals need bespoke flavour
06/01/2010 | Marie Maitre and Nina Sovich
France could miss out on more multi-billion dollar deals to build new nuclear power plants unless it changes its current nuclear export strategy and adapts its technological offer ...
Crunch time for the planet
21/12/2009 |
Rich nations have to do more – a lot more – to slash their CO2 output. CCS technology can help, says Stan Dessens, chairman of the National Taskforce CCS in The Netherlands, but we...
The Swedish approach
21/12/2009 |
The international market for environmental technology is undergoing rapid growth, as climate and energy issues are coming increasingly to the fore. With continuing urbanisation env...
A hub for energy
21/08/2009 |
Niedersachsen, the German state up north, with Hanover as its capital, is the state of wind energy: 5,102 wind turbines producing more than 6,000 megawatts are currently rotating t...
Taking electric cars mainstream
21/08/2009 | Joan Bryna Michelson
Fundamental to the success of combating global climate change and reducing dependence on oil is changing each person's behavior. This includes moving a critical mass of people from...
Waste not want not
21/08/2009 | Niel Bowerman and Radhika Viswanathan
The generation of electricity from WtE plants is often cited as an environmentally friendly and effective source of renewable energy that reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions...
An inseparable pair
21/08/2009 |
Water and energy are critical to the world's expanding population, but what often is overlooked is that these resources are interdependent and must be addressed together. We cannot...
A necessary technology
21/08/2009 |
New CCS technology can now pipe carbon dioxide from coal and gas power stations to underground storage reservoirs. Pioneers like Norway, the Netherlands and the UK are already trai...
Cracks in the market
20/08/2009 | Gerard Wynn and Sunanda Creagh
It could save the rainforests of Borneo, slow climate change and the international community backs it. But a plan to pay tropical countries not to chop down trees risks being discr...
In partnership with the sun
21/08/2009 |
The latest challenge from Kerself is aimed at Borsa Italiana (the Italian Stock Exchange), with the company in the process of upgrading to the market reserved for high requirement ...
Taking on the challenge
21/08/2009 | Francois Joubert, Head of Corporate Development at EDF Tradi
Addressing climate change and moving toward a more sustainable environment have become every-day challenges for most of today's society...
A dim view
21/08/2009 | Ingrid Melander
Red tape, a lack of political will and local opposition have cramped the development of an otherwise promising renewable energy market in Greece, whose climate is endowed with plen...
A global effort
21/08/2009 |
Steps by the Obama administration to recognise the harmful impact of industrial emissions on the planet will radically affect the energy industry...
Eye on the future
21/08/2009 |
Through one of the most severe global recessions in a generation, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation continues to invest billions in finding and developing new sources of energy for ou...
Wast(ing) water
21/08/2009 |
Much of what we flush away can be converted into valuable resources, write Petter D. Jenssen and Ingrid Nyborg of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences...
Water worries cloud future
01/06/2009 |
With climate change concerns mounting and drought becoming more of a problem in many areas, the water-intensive nature of creating ethanol also is a growing concern. By Carey Gilla...
Non-stop electricity
01/06/2009 |
Israeli energy company AORA wants to prove it doesn't have to be sunny for a solar power plant to make electricity. Like weaning a car from total dependence on fuel, the answer, it...
Our energy future
01/06/2009 |
The New Economy's Hywel Jones speaks with Fluor's Chairman & CEO Alan Boeckmann, Senior Group Presidents David Seaton and Steve Dobbs, and Power Business Group President David ...
Industry leader
01/06/2009 |
This year marks the centenary of Acea's foundation. The former municipalised utility, first owned by the Comune di Roma, has provided water services and lighting in the Italian cap...
The truth about our energy future
01/06/2009 |
Jim Hackett, Chairman and CEO of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, examines the misguided belief that renewables and alternative forms of energy alone can secure our world's energy f...
From crap to food
01/06/2009 |
Professor Petter D. Jenssen, Associate Professor Cassandra Bergstrøm and Professor Arild Vatn at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences examine the hidden value of the waste pro...
Alberta's big decision
01/06/2009 |
Are Alberta's oil sands Canada's greatest buried energy treasure as Time Magazine once claimed? Or do they pose an environmental nightmare, despite their potential economic benefit...
Sustainable and profitable
01/06/2009 |
The ground-breaking “Solar Impulse” project aims to revolutionise the use of renewable energies – with the first manned round-the-world-flight in a solar airplane...
Developing solutions
01/06/2009 |
Huw Thomas and Nick Williamson of Ashurst LLP take us through the ups and downs of small to medium sized oil and gas companies and the effects on them of the credit crunch...
Renewed faith
01/06/2009 |
Vivienne Cox, CEO of BP Alternative Energy and Katrina Landis, COO, explain to Adrian Holliday why the renewable energy market is crucial to BP – and why the election of President ...
Developing solutions
21/05/2009 | Huw Thomas and Nick Williamson
Huw Thomas and Nick Williamson of Ashurst LLP take us through the ups and downs of small to medium sized oil and gas companies and the effects on them of the credit crunch...
The power of clean energy
28/05/2009 |
The implications of the current global recession lay the foundation for another choice that we must make to begin addressing the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the cl...
The energy crisis
19/11/2008 | Ujjayant Chakravorty
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Professor at Canada's University of Alberta in Edmonton, discusses how the changing face of global energy is impacting on the economy....
Smoke and mirrors?
19/11/2008 | Alister Doyle
New geo-engineering proposals have to overcome wide criticism that they are fanciful and could have unforeseen side effects...
Rainforests must be in the front line
19/11/2008 | James Heneage
Why the work being carried out by the Prince's Rainforest Project is vital to the preservation of one of the planet's most valuable natural resources...
Going nuclear
19/11/2008 | Madeline Chambers and Vera Eckert
Nuclear power is back on the German political agenda, as rising oil prices and worries over energy security begin to make their impact...
Leading the industry
18/11/2008 |
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a very important technology for worldwide climate mitigation...
Transition policy and sustainability
19/11/2008 | Ben Warner
GasTerra's core activities are purchasing and selling natural gas, with the emphasis on marketing the Dutch natural gas reserves in such a way that value is added to this mineral r...
Copying nature
19/11/2008 |
If you want to create a sustainable source of carbon-free fuel, find something that can do this already and just copy it...
A global voice
19/11/2008 | Dr. Herman Scheer
The WCRE, a globally operating independent organisation, free of the vested interests of the present global energy system, is the global voice for Renewable Energy in the concert o...
Ambitious targets
28/11/2008 | Joan McNaughton
Joan MacNaughton of Alstom discusses how carbon capture and storage could prove to be one of the most valuable weapons in the battle to reduce global CO2 emissions...
Committing to the future
20/11/2008 | Alstom Power Systems
Investigating the viability of carbon capture technologies...
A carbon-friendly approach
08/12/2008 | Lars Capener
Lars Capener of Nalco Mobotec talks about an innovative way of dealing with multi-pollutants...
Heads in the sand
22/01/2009 | Scott Petersen
Don't give way to your inner ostrich - energy conservation demands new ways of working. Break free from the constraints of the traditional contractor selection process - implement ...
Profiting from efficiency
30/12/2008 | Ricardo Cordoba
As demands for cost and environmental performance keep growing in the energy sector, GE Energy is playing an essential role as a technological leader and a major player in the Euro...
Renewable revolution
11/11/2008 | Duncan Botting
Duncan Botting, Managing Director of ITI Energy, outlines the future for the renewable energy sector and the markets where they hope to make significant progress...
Lightbulb moments
18/11/2008 |
People have them every day - bright ideas big and small. But as one American entrepreneur put it: Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out...
Starting a chain reaction
18/08/2008 | TNE
Forget stuffy speeches from the podium. Global Energy Basel is about real debate and discussion from global energy market players aiming to create integrated solutions and services...
Black gold
28/03/2008 | Michael McCaw
Oil has hit the headlines over the last few months due to fluctuating prices and its effects on the economy....
Move over gasoline, here come biofuels
11/06/2007 | the NRDC
Clean-burning biofuels, made from plant materials, will power the cars of the future, says the US National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)....
It won't cost the Earth to save the planet
11/06/2007 | Sophy Bristow
The earth's temperature is rising. Climate change affects every surface of the world; immediate action must be taken across all sectors to reduce the scale of the problem, before i...
Controversy mounts in EU over fall-out from biofuel
12/02/2010
Fresh controversy is mounting within the EU over biofuels and their unintended impact on tropical fo...
55 nations set 2020 carbon goals since Copenhagen
02/02/2010
Fifty-five nations accounting for almost 80 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions have set natio...
Internet companies voice alarm over Italian law
26/01/2010
Internet companies and civil liberty groups have voiced alarm over a proposed Italian law which woul...
IEA sees world oil use in 2010 highest since 2007
15/01/2010
Global oil demand this year will reach the highest level since 2007, with rising consumption led by ...
