Archive for November, 2009
Leonardo Energy: The Web Community for Sustainable Energy Professionals – 25 Predictions on low carbon electricity
Prediction markets: the wisdom of the crowd A prediction market makes use of the collective wisdom of its contributors to produce answers to uncertain questions. It is organised in the form of a stock market, with virtual money to stimulate participation. Participants - or ‘traders’ - can earn virtual money by choosing answers that are close [...]
P2P Foundation Updates
Strong IPR regimes counterproductive for climate change technology transfers SciDev summarizes the conclusions from a new report undertaken by Asian research institutes: “The notion that climate technology cannot be transferred to a developing country unless it has strong intellectual property laws — a cherished belief among developed [...]
Strong IPR regimes counterproductive for climate change technology transfers
SciDev summarizes the conclusions from a new report undertaken by Asian research institutes: “The notion that climate technology cannot be transferred to a developing country unless it has strong intellectual property laws — a cherished belief among developed countries — has been called into question by a new study. (more...)
Responsible Investor Alert
NEWS HEADLINES: NOVEMBER 22ND, 2009 › Investors failing to see incremental climate change costs because of ‘extreme’ event focus › Norway fund kicks out Norilsk Nickel over Siberian pollution controversy
The Peak of the Oil Age – The Uppsala World Energy Outlook
by Kjell Aleklett, Mikael Höök, Kristofer Jakobsson, Michael Lardelli, Simon Snowden, Bengt Söderbergh A new study has been accepted for publication in the journal of Energy Policy. The article performs an analysis of the oil production forecast done by the International Energy Agency in 2008 and highlights several shortcomings as well as [...]
NewNet Clean Energy Investor Newsletter
23 Nov 2009 DEALS NEWS... University funding network Billiken Angel Network invests $300,000 into wind developer Affinity Wind Arcadia and Vilmorin partner to develop nitrogen-efficient wheat Solargiga Energy awarded tender for 13.5MW Golden Sun pilot project Miles Mahoney appointed president of Evergreen Energy Clean Energy Fuels [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Great Wall in Badaling, China
This is a CAP repost by Julian L. Wong and Andrew Light. The United States and China announced on Tuesday a package of cooperative agreements on clean energy and climate change that are remarkable in both breadth and ambition. The cluster of seven initiatives, partnerships, action plans, and research centers covers a range of low-carbon energy [...]
The Private Inurement Doctrine And Nonprofits
All nonprofit organizations are subject to what is called the “private inurement” doctrine. Simply put, private inurement is income or other financial gain from a nonprofit to an individual for which the nonprofit does not receive a comparable benefit in return (in other words, the value of the financial gain the individual receives from [...]
Why do companies issue sustainability reports? GRI invites companies to have their say
19 November 2009 Amsterdam The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) today invited all companies who issue sustainability reports (also known as “CSR” or “Corporate Social Responsibility” reports) to have their say on why they do it. The number of companies issuing sustainability reports has reached a record high. Such reports allow [...]
(ENS) World News, Nov. 18, 2009: Women & Climate, U.S. & China, Katrina Flood
UN Report: Women's Profound Role in Averting Climate Crisis LONDON, UK, November 18, 2009 (ENS) - Women are central to global and national efforts to cope with climate change, concludes a new report, "The State of World Population 2009," released today by the United Nations Population Fund. The authors predict that the fight against climate [...]
