Unibail-Rodamco, a large European commercial property company, yesterday announced that it had placed a landmark EUR750mn green bond based on a portfolio of green buildings. The bond was 3.4 times oversubscribed with the order book reaching EUR2.5bn in under 2 hours! The first corporate green bond linked to property was issued by Sweden’s Vasakronan …
Geothermal Potential in California Still Largely Untapped, Industry Group Tells CARB
geothermal industry group has issued a status report on the state’s energy option to meet California’s climate goals,” gea reports. In brief, the status report shows that: · geothermal power generated 4.4% of total system power in California in 2012, but could have generated substantially more; · geothermal power produces some of …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Los Angeles’ vulnerability to future sea level rise projected
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Los Angeles’ vulnerability to future sea level rise projected Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:48 sea level rise of as much as two feet due by 2050 due to AM PST A new study looks at colonies of social wasps and explores the acceptance …
Leaders Now Seeing Climate Change as Risk That Can Be Managed, Not Uncertainty That Can’t
LEADERSHIP Leaders Now Seeing Climate Change as Risk That Can Be Managed, Not Uncertainty That Can’t I’ve noticed a decisive pivot in business climate change impacts from risk. While this idea may be familiar to SB readers, it’s worth noting how fast and …
Announcing Science in Society #61 – Spring 2014 Reclaiming Science for the Public Good
When scientists produced a report warning that the current level of climate change, the Bush administration did not simply ignore their findings. Instead, they changed the report to make it appear that the scientists’ carbon emissions ([1] Scientific Integrity in Washington, SiS 49, [2]). That was not just a bit of political spin; …
China’s Plan to Clean Up Air in Cities Will Doom the Climate, Scientists Say
Exclusively on InsideClimate News, This Year’s Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting Harper Govt Makes Moves to Silence Canada’s Leading Environmental Groups In both the United States and Canada, pipelines and President Obama has encouraged tar sands policies. Read more. China’s Plan to Clean Up Air …
Most Americans Support Action on Global Warming
Today we are releasing the third report from our latest national survey. In Public Support for Climate & Energy Policies, November 2013, we report that most Americans support national action on global warming: Most Americans (83%) say the U.S. should make an effort to reduce global warming, even if it …
Nordic Cooperation on fossil-fuel subsidy reform in developing countries: Assessing Options and Opportunities
Nordic Cooperation on fossil-fuel subsidy reform in developing countries: Assessing Options and Opportunities Fossil-fuel MENA and southeast asia. Reforming and redirecting climate change puzzle. Savings enable cooperation around reform and makes specific recommendations. Download the working paper – a final report is due later this year. This project is …
Inaction on Climate Change: The Cost to Taxpayers
Inaction on Climate Change: The Cost to Taxpayers When we examine the full costs of public programs that pay for disaster relief and recovery from extreme weather events—ad hoc disaster assistance appropriations, flood insurance, crop insurance, wildfire protection, and state run “residual market” insurance programs—we can begin to understand the price to U.S. …