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Generation next: snapshots #2

By Making It on 6 January, 2013

A snapshot of Tunisia’s innovative wind energy company, Saphon Energy.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged generation next, Hassine Labaïed, innovation, KPMG Innovation Award, Making It, sailboat technology, Saphon Energy, Saphonian, TED, wind energy, wind power, wind turbine, WIPO, zero-blade technology

Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited

By Making It on 27 August, 2012

Paul Hohnen on ‘greenwash’, sustainable development, and what governments and the UN need to do to save the planet.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged business, China, climate change, energy, energy efficiency, environment, environmental sustainability, free market, Global Reporting Initiative, green economy, green energy, green industry, green innovation, green technology, greenhouse gas, greenwash, Industrial Development, international agreement, Making It magazine, multinational companies, natural resources, oil, Paul Hohnen, pollution, resources, rio+20, solar power, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable business practices, sustainable development, sustainable economic growth, sustainable energy, Sustainable Energy for All, sustainable future, sustainable growth, sustainable production, Sustainablity strategies, technology, UN Private Sector Focal Points, UNIDO, United Nations, wind energy, wind power

WindMade and the case for transparency

By Making It on 20 April, 2012

Morten Albæk introduces the first global consumer label identifying corporations and products made with wind energy.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged alternative energy, Bloomberg, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, brands, clean energy, consumer label, Corporate Renewable Energy Index, corporations, Droga5, energy, Global Consumer Wind Study, Global Wind Energy Council, green energy, LEGO Group, Making It, Morten Albæk, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, renewable energy, renewable energy goals, stakeholders, UN Global Compact, Vestas, wind, wind energy, wind farms, wind power, wind turbine, WindMade, WWF

Is nuclear power necessary for a carbon-free future?

By Making It on 26 August, 2011

Governments are re-evaluating their nuclear plans, but are their fears misplaced? Chris Goodall and José Etcheverry are both environmentalists, but are divided on nukes

Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Chris Goodall, climate change, creativity, debate, Denmark, economy, electricity, environmentalist, feed-in tariffs, fossil fuels, fourth-generation nuclear, Fukushima, germany, global warming, grid, hydropower, Industrial Development, industrialization, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International, International Renewable Energy Agency, IPCC, IRENA, Japan, José Etcheverry, low carbon energy, Making It magazine, mining, nuclear disaster, nuclear energy, reactor, reliance, renewable energy policies, renewables, solar, solar panels, tsunami, turbine, UK, UNIDO, United Nation, water, wind, wind power, zero-carbon

Nuclear energy: the low carbon source to drive advanced industrial processes?

By Making It on 20 April, 2011

Two British greens give their backing to nuclear power

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Birmingham, calamitous, climate change, earthquake, economy, England, Europe, extra content, fossil fuels, fourth-generation nuclear, Fukushima, George Monbiot, global warming, grid, hydropower, Industrial Development, industrialization, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International, IPCC, Japan, low carbon energy, Making It magazine, Mark Lynas, mining, nuclear disaster, nuclear energy, reactor, reliance, renewables, small-scale production, solar panels, sun, tsunami, turbine, UK, UNIDO, United Nations, Wales, water, wind, wind power, wood, worthless, zero-carbon

The converging world

By Making It on 31 January, 2011

How investments can be designed to generate a positive environmental impact, in addition to providing a financial return to support sustainable development work

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged access to energy, business, carbon credits, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, challenges, clean development mechanism, co2, community, David Cameron, design, energy gap, environment, financial return, incentives, India, Industrial Development Organization, industrial policy, investment, investor, issue 4, Making It magazine, NGO, peace, peak coal, policy, positive impact, pv, renewable energy, Sir Nicholas Stern, social unrest, solar, solution, stability, success, sustainability, tariff, trade barriers, UNIDO, United Nations, wind power

Most industrialized countries have experienced severe declines in industrial production in the last two years, the worst being in North America where output has fallen by 20% since 2007, according to the International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2010, published by UNIDO.

Posted in Extra! | Tagged Africa, banking, Brazil, business, central asia, China, construction, disease, economist, economy, eiu, Europe, GDP, Industrial Development, infant mortality, latin america, ldc, least developed countries, mckinsey quarterly, organization, policy, poverty, private investment, retail, russia, statistics, stimulus, telecommunications, trends, UNIDO, United Nations, US, wind power

wind power

Generation next: snapshots #2

Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited

WindMade and the case for transparency

Is nuclear power necessary for a carbon-free future?

Nuclear energy: the low carbon source to drive advanced industrial processes?

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