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Awakening - China Promoting Solar Water Heaters for a Cleaner Country |
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
(Newswire ) -- In
the past few years, China has posted an impressive growth in the
production of solar cells. In a span of just 2-3 years (nearly form
2003 to 2005), China fortified its position in the worldwide solar cell
production market by moving from nearly 1.05% to about 7.8%, according
to a recent report “China Energy Sector Analysis” by RNCOS.
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ENERGY -- Whither Renewable Energy? |
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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(AP ) -- The notion of power generated by dams, windmills and other renewable
sources demands a significant share of the public consciousness thanks
to the global-warming debate.
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Energy Standards Needed, Report Says |
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Thursday, 17 May 2007 |
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(NY Times ) -- Energy saving opportunities in American homes are immense with current
technology, but new product standard mandates will be needed, according
to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute.
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Shrinking the Cost for Solar Power |
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Saturday, 12 May 2007 |
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(CNET News.com) -- One of the big problems with solar power has been that it costs more than electricity generated by conventional means. But some experts think that, under certain circumstances, the premium for solar power can be erased, without subsidies or dramatic technical breakthroughs.
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IBM Moves to Make Data Centers More Energy-Efficient |
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Friday, 11 May 2007 |
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(CIO Insight) -- IBM on May 11 introduced its energy-efficiency
deployment strategy, where the company will invest $1 billion per year
to help businesses increase their level of energy efficiency in their
IT departments while also allowing businesses to save money.
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Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases Possible, U.S. Officials Say |
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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WASHINGTON (USINFO) -- Current low-cost, energy-efficient technologies are
starting points for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, according to U.S.
officials. At the same time, development of alternative energy
technologies must be pursued vigorously.
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Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests |
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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
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WASHINGTON (NY Times) -- Building thousands of wind turbines would probably
not reduce the pollutants that cause smog and acid rain, but it would
slow the growth in emissions of heat-trapping gases, according to a
study released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Freeomics Reveals Proprietary Solutions for Energy Oil & Gas Dependency and Green House Gases Waste |
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
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(Newswire) -- Freeomics™
technologies eliminate the dependence on fossil fuels while cleaning
the environment. Countries around the world will benefit from this
technology immediately, plus provides an answer to the Kyoto treaty.
The Freeomics principle technology is FreeomicGas™ which utilizes water
to create energy in addition to eliminating waste. Freeomics has
successfully broken the barriers related to cost and space. The energy
is created with low voltage (15 volts) that produces 2000 Celsius plus
of heat. The energy is created the moment the unit is turned on. "This
is not a far-fetched dream for the future - it is a realistic,
achievable necessity," says Larry Castro, CEO.
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Climate Modelling Gets a $44m Boost |
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
(Australian IT) -- THE CSIRO will pair up with the Bureau of
Meteorology to speed up the development of a next-generation computer
modelling system to assess the localised impacts of climate change.
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How Trees Might Not Be Green in Carbon Offsetting Debate |
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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(The Guardian) -- It may have become the penance of choice for the environmentally conscious individual, but planting trees to offset carbon emissions could contribute to global warming if they are planted outside the tropics, scientists believe.
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Silicon Valley's Brightest Work on Energy |
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
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(Reuters) -- Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley
have been searching for the next big thing in high tech for years, but
now many have switched to greener pursuits―finding technology to help
cut global warming.
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Climate Plan Looks Beyond Bush’s Tenure |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (NYT ) — The world’s faltering effort to cut greenhouse
gas emissions got a new lease on life on Saturday, as delegates from
187 countries agreed to negotiate a new accord over the next two years
— pushing the crucial debates about United States participation into
the administration of a new American president.
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E.P.A. Says 17 States Can’t Set Emission Rules |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
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New US energy bill meets green lobby approval |
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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(Guardian) Congressional Democrats finalised an energy bill today that will
increase fuel efficiency standards for cars for the first time in
decades.
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Climate change research centre launched |
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
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(ABC) A new centre involving two of Australia's major climate research bodies has been launched in Canberra today.
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Key climate summit opens in Bali |
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
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(BBC) Governments at a key UN climate summit will discuss
how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the current Kyoto Protocol
targets expire in 2012.
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Kyoto backers can exceed 2012 climate goals - UN |
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
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OSLO (Reuters ) - Industrial nations taking part in the U.N.'s Kyoto
Protocol for fighting climate change can exceed goals for cuts in
greenhouse gas emissions if new policies work as planned, the U.N.
Climate Secretariat said on Tuesday.
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Bill Clinton: Green buildings key to fighting climate change |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
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CHICAGO (CNET )--Fighting climate change requires making the nation's homes,
offices, and schools healthier and more energy efficient, former
president Bill Clinton told thousands attending the Greenbuild conference
on Wednesday. Sweeping efforts to reduce the carbon footprints of
buildings, which emit three-quarters of most cities' greenhouse gases,
can measurably benefit the environment, he said."The sale's been made," Clinton said. "Otherwise Al Gore
wouldn't have gotten the Nobel Prize. Now what we have to do is...to
prove that this is not a big bottle of castor oil that we're being
asked to drink."
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China Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Report: October 2007 |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
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(Renewable Energy Access) As China's appetite for energy continues to grow, so too does its
implementation of renewable energy. The country's wind, biomass and
solar industries are moving at an impressive pace -- officials are
planning to generate roughly 120,000 megawatts (MW) from renewable
resources by 2020.
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Chair of UN climate panel 'stunned' to share Nobel Prize with Gore |
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
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New Delhi (International Herald Tribune) -- From his office in central Delhi, Rajendra Pachauri has spent more than
two decades first working on making the links between man's activities
and climate change, and then on convincing the world's population of
the damage those activities were doing.
Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nations panel on climate, which
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Al Gore, said he was
"stunned" when he received a phone call informing him of the news.
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Democrats eye key climate summit |
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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(BBC) -- A team of leading US Democrats is planning to send a
delegation to a key UN climate conference to rival President Bush's
official team.
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Climate activists tipped for peace prize |
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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OSLO (Reuters ) - Former Vice President Al Gore and other
campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for
statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists.
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Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts |
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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(New York Times ) -- The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped
along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage
over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.
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New York Subpoenas 5 Energy Companies |
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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(The New York Times ) Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo
of New York has opened an investigation of five large energy companies,
questioning whether their plans to build coal-fired power plants pose
undisclosed financial risks that their investors should know about.
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Lovelock urges ocean climate fix |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
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(BBC) Two of Britain's leading environmental thinkers say it is time to develop a quick technical fix for climate change. Writing in the journal Nature, Science Museum head Chris
Rapley and Gaia theorist James Lovelock suggest looking at boosting
ocean take-up of CO2.
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World Leaders Meet for UN Climate Talks |
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP ) -- With tales of rising seas and talk of human
solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit
sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce
global-warming emissions.
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Climate Change to Loom Large at APEC Finmin Meeting |
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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(Reuters ) -- The economic challenges of climate
change will top the agenda when finance ministers of APEC's
21-members meet in the Queensland coastal resort of Coolum next
week.
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Yates with Gates in Green Fund |
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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(The Australian ) -- Former Allco Equity Partners chief Peter Yates has entered into a partnership with one of the world's richest men, U.S. billionare Bill Gates, with plans to set up a E400 million ($650 million) carbon trading fund in China.
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Veteran House Democrat Guards Turf on Energy |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
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(NY Times ) -- He just turned 81, his voice has become frail and his hands often shake
uncontrollably. In recent weeks, he has walked with crutches because of
leg pains. But make no mistake: Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan has not mellowed.
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States Should Take Lead on Climate Change, Governors Say at National Meeting in Mich. |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
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(AP ) -- States should develop creative approaches to climate change, just as
they have with challenges such as health care, despite their different
economic interests, state governors said .
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