In a recent blog post entitled, “All Our Patent Are Belong to You,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk tore down the patent wall. Musk emphasized that the liberation of the patents will help Tesla in recruiting the best technical talent despite “some wide-eyed looks” from people on the board and management team.

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There’s no denying America’s quick emergence as an energy superpower. With breakthrough technologies and cutting-edge production processes, the united states is now able to take advantage of our vast energy resources like never before.

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I put “sector” in quotation when talking about the cleantech sector because we all know that this is really a collection of a wide variety of markets and applications gathered under a consistent investment thesis. Cleantech isn’t a sector; it’s a lens for finding big opportunities across sectors.

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I recently wrote about how our risk tolerance affects our estimation of the social cost of carbon, but obviously that’s not the only place that risk shows up in our energy systems. Fossil fuel based electricity is also exposed to a much more prosaic kind of risk: the possibility that fuel prices will increase over time.

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This summer, the Mexican Congress is finally expected to approve the secondary legislation tied to Mexico’s energy reform. Prior to the announcement of energy sector reforms, mexico was characterized by a very closed oil sector regime alongside a rudimentary electricity sector.

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brazil is the second-largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world, trailing only China, and the country depends on hydroelectricity for more than 75% of its electric power supply. Much of Brazil’s hydroelectric potential lies in the country’s Amazon River basin in the north.

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Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), meets with viEUws.eu leading environment journalist Sonja van Renssen to talk about climate change goals and Europe’s role in the global climate negotiations.

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A recent wall street journal article points out just how surprisingly weak the market for new homes is: America built less than half as many new homes between 2009 and 2013 as we did in the decade 1992 to 2002, before the housing bubble and its collapse.

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