U.S. natural gas production is booming. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), production grew by 23 percent from 2007 to 2012. Now—with production projected to continue growing in the decades ahead—U.S. lawmakers and companies are considering exporting this resource internationally. But what are the climate ...
Germany is in the midst of an unprecedented clean energy revolution. Thanks to the “Energiewende,” a strategy to revamp the national energy system, Germany aims to reduce its overall energy consumption and move to 80 percent renewable energy by 2050. The country has already made considerable progress toward achieving this ambitious ...
World Resources Institute WRIMay 6, 2013 by Dr. John D. Wiebe GLOBE-Net, May 6, 2013 -There are two persistent misconceptions about sustainability that can confuse many and delay implementing measures to cut carbon emissions, save energy or eliminate wastage. The first is that sustainability can deliver long term benefits, but only through ...
GLOBE FoundationGeneral Electric and Andover, MA-based ENEL Green Power (jobs at ENEL) announced on Monday Apr. 8th, 2013 that GE will invest $40 million to help ENEL build the Buffalo Dunes wind farm in Kansas. In addition to the $40 million, GE will supply 135 wind turbines, and will operate and maintain the wind farm after completion. The Buffalo Dunes ...
The Green Job BankAquion Energy is our Employer of the Week for Mar-30 to Apr-05 2013, not because of its current jobs openings, but because its jobs openings might increase significantly in the next weeks and months. And here's why: it just got a capital infusion of $35 million, with the participation of Bill Gates, along with 4 Venture Capital firms. This much ...
The Green Job BankEven amid policy uncertainty in major wind power markets, wind developers still managed to set a new record for installations in 2012, with 44,000 megawatts of new wind capacity worldwide. With total capacity exceeding 280,000 megawatts, wind farms generate carbon-free electricity in more than 80 countries, 24 of which have at least 1,000 ...
Developing countries will need about $531 billion of additional investments in clean energy technologies every year in order to limit global temperature rise to 2° C above pre-industrial levels, thus preventing climate change’s worst impacts. To attract investments on the scale required, developing country governments, with support from ...
World Resources Institute WRIRegardless of what tech industry you're associated with-cleantech, IT, biotech, telecommunications-you're aware of how valuable emerging global markets are. As a member of the United Nations Energy Access Practitioner Network, I am consistently amazed at the level of innovation and entrepreneurship being applied to technology challenges ...
GLOBE FoundationMasdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, today announced it has commissioned UK-based Axium Process to install two mobile membrane filtration plants at the campus. Designed for pilot scale Microfiltration, Ultrafiltration, ...
Water Active LtdNow is a critically important time for the world to focus on climate finance. Developing nations—those least responsible for causing global warming but most vulnerable to its impacts—need funding to adopt clean energy, protect infrastructure from sea level rise, and engage in other adaptation and mitigation strategies. But these ...
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