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World GHG Emissions Hit Record Level

World GHG Emissions Hit Record LevelGreenhouse gas emissions reached their highest point ever last year, making it “extremely challenging” to prevent global temperature rising to dangerous levels, the ...

May 31, 2011

Best Practices: Navigating Today’s Global Regulatory Environment

Best Practices: Navigating Today’s Global Regulatory EnvironmentJoin Environmental Leader for a webinar on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 8am PDT/11am EDT discussing best practices in managing the regulatory and compliance ...

May 16, 2011

12 Countries Agree to Carbon Capture Actions; IEA Urges Aggressive Policies

12 Countries Agree to Carbon Capture Actions; IEA Urges Aggressive PoliciesEnergy secretaries from the U.S., U.K. and ten other countries have agreed to accelerate the development of carbon capture projects, at the ...

April 8, 2011

Epicenter of Renewable Energy Investments Shifts to Developing Economies

Epicenter of Renewable Energy Investments Shifts to Developing Economies2010 proved a record year for green energy investments – according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, nearly US $243 billion ...

March 30, 2011

Ericsson, Cisco, GE Launch New Cities Foundation

Ericsson, Cisco, GE Launch New Cities FoundationCisco, Ericsson and GE have helped to launch a foundation aimed at improving life and work in the 21st century city. The founders of ...

March 29, 2011

Energy Efficiency Discussion at CSIS

Energy Efficiency Discussion at CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies session explores the potential for catalyzing major steps forward on energy efficiency gains through a ...

March 23, 2011

Sustainable Development, Part II: the Three-Legged Stool

Sustainable Development, Part II: the Three-Legged StoolIn Part 1 of this article, we defined sustainable development as a balanced approach to achieving a better quality of life ...

February 23, 2011

Carbon Professionals’ Salaries Rise Worldwide

Carbon Professionals’ Salaries Rise WorldwideAverage salaries of carbon and climate change professionals were up four percent last year, according to a survey out today, but the proportion of ...

February 3, 2011

Shell, Nestle Among 54 Firms Launching U.N. Sustainability Program

Shell, Nestle Among 54 Firms Launching U.N. Sustainability ProgramThe United Nations today launched a program encouraging corporations to share knowledge on sustainability, and signed up the first 54 participating companies. Chief executives joined UN ...

January 28, 2011

Can Trade Liberalization Be Aligned with Long-term Environmental Health?

Can Trade Liberalization Be Aligned with Long-term Environmental Health? Trade liberalization and free trade in their purest forms do little to encourage effective improvements in environmental quality. The goal of ...

January 14, 2011

Report: Climate Change Information Is Insufficient

Report: Climate Change Information Is InsufficientFinancial institutions don’t have access to enough information on climate change effects, a report by the United Nations and Germany’s Sustainable ...

January 13, 2011

Projected Global OTC Market for Forest Carbon Offsets to Hit $65 Million by 2015

Projected Global OTC Market for Forest Carbon Offsets to Hit $65 Million by 2015The global forest carbon offset market is projected to grow from $42.0 million in 2010 to $65.1 million in 2015, according to the latest ...

January 5, 2011

Post COP16 Perspective from African Union: Climate Change Matter of Life and Death

Post COP16 Perspective from African Union: Climate Change Matter of Life and DeathOne day after the close of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico, Green Canary Sustainability Consulting CEO Kevin Tuerff interviewed a delegate ...

December 22, 2010

UN Climate Conference (COP 16) Wrap up and What to Watch in 2011

UN Climate Conference (COP 16) Wrap up and What to Watch in 2011This year’s Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place between ...

December 20, 2010

Smart Grid Software, Data Mgmt Market To Hit $2.9 Billion in 2015

Smart Grid Software, Data Mgmt Market To Hit $2.9 Billion in 2015The current world market for Smart Grid software and data management applications is $1.4 billion in 2010, and it will grow to $2.9 billion in ...

December 17, 2010

At COP16, Business Sounds Note of Optimism

At COP16, Business Sounds Note of OptimismMinisterial-level talks began at the COP16 climate summit yesterday amid widespread pessimism about the chances for a binding agreement between governments, but some notes of ...

December 8, 2010

COP 16 Day 3 Press Briefing

COP 16 Day 3 Press Briefing Speaking to the media on the third day of the conference, Christiana Figueres said that Cancun can deliver on adaptation, technology ...

December 2, 2010

Why Dow Chemical is at COP 16

Why Dow Chemical is at COP 16 Doug May, the Vice President of Energy and Climate Change at Dow Chemical ...

December 1, 2010

Goals Laid Out at COP 16 Opening Press Conference

Goals Laid Out at COP 16 Opening Press Conference Addressing the media on the opening day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said that Cancun ...

November 30, 2010

Global Mayors Sign Climate-Change Agreement as GHG Emissions Projected to Rise in 2010

Global Mayors Sign Climate-Change Agreement as GHG Emissions Projected to Rise in 2010Ahead of the United Nations climate change conference (COP16) set to start in Cancun, Mexico, next week, global mayors have signed a voluntary pact in Mexico ...

November 22, 2010