Estimates of the renewable energy share in gross final energy consumption for the year 2012

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

European renewable energy share increases to 14.4% in 2012 The Directive 2009/28 states that the member states should achieve an overall 20% share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption across Europe. It has set a binding individual target for each country by 2020. EurObserv’ER is monitoring the progress …

iisd: Earth Negotiations Bulletin

Jay OwenSustainability News

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Politics: Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Politics Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon By CORAL DAVENPORT More than two dozen major American corporations are preparing to pay climate-related taxes, departing from conservative orthodoxy and exposing divisions between the Republican Party and its business supporters. Democrats’ Latest Campaign for Health Care Law Begins By …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Expedition yields unexpected clues to ocean mysteries

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

  ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   Expedition yields unexpected clues to ocean mysteries Posted: 03 Dec 2013 04:11 PM PST Geoscientists have revealed new discoveries about Earth’s development, following a major international expedition that recovered the first-ever drill core from the lower crust of the Pacific Ocean. Antarctic fjords are …

[Climate Bonds] COP19 snippets: UN climate negotiations a damp squib / HSBC’s Robins “We need to integrate climate into financial policy” / GGGI CEO says investors should expect change in a rush, leaving assets stranded: “hedge your bets”!

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Climate Bonds has posted a new item, ‘COP19 snippets: UN climate negotiations a damp squib / HSBC’s Robins “We need to integrate climate into financial policy” / GGGI CEO says investors should expect change in a rush, leaving assets stranded: “hedge your bets”!‘ I’ve been in Warsaw for more than …

How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt by Naomi Klein Waste land: large-scale irrigation strips nutrients from the soil, scars the landscape and could alter climactic conditions beyond repair. Image: Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto/ Flowers, London, Pivot Irrigation #11 High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA (2011) In December 2012, …

Time to move on from redefining the problems and concentrate on solutions already seeded on the ground.

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Earth Systems Science

############################################Time to move on from redefining the problems and concentrate on solutionsalready seeded on the ground. Prof Roger LeakeyEditor’s NoteThis article describes one of many case studies and solutions to povertypresented recently in UNCTAD’s Trade and Environment Report [1] (see [2]Paradigm Shift Urgently Needed In Agriculture, SiS 60)Redefining problems without …

Don’t water down climate targets, Government warned

Jay OwenAdvisors' Forum

Ethical Markets Advisory Board member Tessa Tennant is one of the directors for the UK Green Investment Bank, instrumental in guiding the environmental policy in the UK which informed the report “Progress on Carbon Budgets” from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.   ~ editor 08 October 2013 MPs have …

Greentech Solar – October 7th

Jay OwenGreentech

    LATEST NEWS: Vivint Solar Moves Into Orange County and the No. 2 US Installer Spot  Eric Wesoff – October 4, 2013 It’s green trucks versus orange trucks. Rooftop Solar Scores a Crucial Win Against Arizona’s Dominant Utility  Herman K. Trabish – October 3, 2013 Landmark regulatory memo rejects …