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SEC: Traded Firms May Have to Disclose Climate Change Risks
U.S.-traded companies may have to disclose their exposure to financial risks relating to climate change and emerging policies under a new U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) ...
Solar Industry Headed for Sunny Skies in 2010 but Obstacles Remain
U.S. solar executives expect significant growth for their businesses in 2010 and 2011, according to results from the 2009 U.S. Solar Industry Monitor survey. Over 90 ...
Environmental Reporting Requirements: 6 Things to Ask Yourself
A new question-and-answer guide provides businesses with best practices on reporting environmental issues in annual financial statements. The guide -- aimed at those preparing, auditing and ...
Climate Bill Needs to Drive Investment in Energy Efficiency
Climate legislation that encourages energy-saving investments will create millions of jobs, save U.S. consumers billions on monthly energy bills, and spur innovation, according to a report ...
Federal Grants to Spur Clean-Tech, Smart Grid Innovations
The Obama Administration has released billions of dollars under the federal stimulus act to drive technological innovation in the areas of clean technologies and smart-grid networks. The ...
Research Analyzes 270 Global Climate and Energy Policies to Drive Investment
Investors can't justify moving capital into clean-tech technologies until governments mitigate the financial risks involved by enacting climate-change policies that are transparent, long-term and certain, according ...
WWF to Screen Forest Carbon Investments
WWF's Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) plans to launch investment screening guidelines for financial investors in the upcoming months to encourage support for responsible ...
GE Pushes for Multilateral Free Trade on Cleantech
General Electric Co. (GE) says a trade deal in environmental goods and services, separate from the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha round of talks to open ...
Oregon Buildings Upgrade Energy Efficiency
The city of Portland, along with Portland Community College (PCC) and other county facilities, are receiving $7.2 million in federal stimulus money for energy-efficient building upgrades ...
Feds Create Framework for Property Tax Financing of Renewables
More businesses should be able to take advantage of property tax financing to fund installation of renewable energy, as well as energy ...
Standard Bank Readies $230M Aussie Carbon Forest Fund
South Africa's Standard Bank is in position to launch a A$250 million ($230 million) forestry fund in Australia that will sell carbon offsets to companies that will ...
Study Finds Servers Waste $25B a Year
One of the biggest causes of energy and information technology (IT) operational waste is millions of servers at the world's largest IT departments that don't do ...
Coordinated Sustainability Intelligence Generates Potential Tax Benefits
An evolution in green IT is under way as it rounds the bend from a siloed cost-reduction strategy to an enabler of corporate responsibility ...
Greenpeace Calls Noel Kempff Climate Action Project a Carbon Scam
Greenpeace released a new report that calls into question the Noel Kempff Climate Action Project (NKCAP) aimed at saving Bolivia's rainforests, stating the project ...
Audi Pumps $7.5M into Environmental Foundation, Pledges Emissions Cuts
Carmaker Audi AG is starting a new corporate environmental foundation to bring together all the company's worldwide environmental measures into measures that extend beyond the realm ...
Wells Fargo Targets 20% U.S. Emissions Cut
Banking giant Wells Fargo & Co. plans to reduce its U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2018, compared to a 2008 baseline. The ...
Investors Pressure GM, Boeing, Deere, Xerox to Quit U.S. Chamber
Trying to ramp up pressure on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its position on climate change, an investors group ...
Goldman Sachs Sells $12M in Carbon Offsets in Largest Such U.S. Deal So Far
Goldman Sachs marketed $12 million worth of carbon offsets to CE2 Carbon Capital in what Goldman Sachs is calling the largest publicly announced U.S. ...
Soros Throws $1B into Cleantech
Influential investor George Soros is a big believer in the future of clean tech and energy efficiency - so much so that he has ...
EIA Projects 2009 Emissions Reduction of 29M Metric Tons
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects CO2 emissions from the commercial and residential sectors to be 29 million metric tons lower in 2009, or just over ...
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Tom Stacy on National Grid Again Rejects High Costs of Offshore Wind
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Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
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