A new UN body to advise nations on climate tech may break the deadlock in the long-running debate on transferring technology finds Joanna Carpenter. Rich nations have the technological know-how needed for poor nations to develop — but how do you deliver it without compromising the intellectual property and the business edge that such ...
California can be a tough place to do business, but a number of new policies are in place to make it easier to develop bioenergy projects. In 2012, the state adopted a new Bioenergy Action Plan and passed several laws to promote electricity and biogas production from organic waste. With pending legislation on organics diversion and new incentives ...
The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), one of the world’s largest dedicated funding facilities for climate change mitigation/adaptation projects, have now been in operation for five years. It’s a good time to step back and evaluate what lessons we’re learning from these important sources of climate finance. WRI recently did just ...
World Resources Institute WRIGermany 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 WRIAnaerobic digestion is widely used as an important source of renewable energy. With the increasing number and capacity of biogas plants also, adequate treatment technologies for whole digestate – the residue from anaerobic digestion – are gaining attention. In this study the state of the art of digestate processing is analysed, and ...
IWA PublishingMay 6, 2013 By Claus Conzelmann GLOBE-Net, May 6, 2013 - The food production chain uses a large share of the world's limited resources, which is why as the world's leading food and beverage company we recognise our position brings responsibilities as well as opportunities. At Nestlé our goal is to produce products that are ...
GLOBE FoundationThe EI has developed two new overseas branches, in the Middle East and Nigeria, to serve members locally and further to spread its professional recognition and good practice messages. Here, local Business Development Managers Maria Blakley and (below) Yewande Abiose describe how the new branches aim to influence education, training and careers ...
Energy Institute (EI)Industrialized countries have repeatedly committed to provide new and additional finance to help developing countries transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient growth. This assessment addresses German efforts to provide “fast start finance” (FSF) as a contribution to the pledge by developed countries to provide USD 30 billion from ...
World Resources Institute WRIThe energy quality of solar energy assisted biogas plants established in Izmir, Turkey was investigated in this study via exergy analysis. This study was assisted together with other energy and economy analysis of these plants. Firstly, the plant was operated at mesophilic temperature region and it was continuously fed with cattle manure. The ...
Inderscience PublishersAt the UK's first viable compact anaerobic digester (AD) plant aimed at local food waste treatment, a Geotech GA3000 fixed biogas analyser monitors methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), oxygen (O2) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S). The plant, a modular scalable AD system, unveiled by React Environmental in July 2012 at Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, can ...
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