17 July 2013
What if goods were manufactured in places with fewer greenhouse gas emissions?
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged border carbon adjustments, carbon intensity, energy intensity, GHG-intensity, greenhouse gas, low-GHG pathways, Marion Davis, Peter Erickson, steel, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm Environment Institute’s US Center (SEI-US), trade, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
4 April 2012
Soogil Young explains how the Republic of Korea is leading the way in de-linking economic growth and environmental degradation
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged business-as-usual, carbon emissions reduction, climate change, co2, COP15, Copenhagen, development, EACP, East Asian Climate Partnership Initiative, economy, environment, Framework Act for Low-Carbon Green Growth, Global Green Growth Institute, green business boom, green economy, Green Growth Strategy, green industry, green innovation, Green Investment Korea Forum, green revolution, Green Technology Centre, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emission, Incheon, issue 9, Making It magazine, National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target, OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, President Lee Myung-bak, Presidential Committee on Green Growth, renewable energy, Republic of Korea, Songdo International Business District, Soogil Young, South Korea, UNEP
8 July 2011
A small but fast-growing company based in Bihar, the poorest state in India, has perfected a system to turn rice husks into electricity, providing remote villages with clean, reliable energy
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Acumen, agribusiness, alternative energy, Bihar, business matters, clean energy, commericial, electricity, energy access, gas, gasification, green energy, green industry, greenhouse gas, grid, Husk Power Systems, India, Industrial Development Organization, innovation, issue 6, kerosene, light source, Making It, MDG, methane, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, reliable power, remove villages, rice husks, rural, technology, UN, UNIDO, United Nations
26 March 2010
Stephen Karekezi and John Kimani – AFREPREN/FWD (Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa), a non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. *** Recent high oil and coal prices, as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many analysts to suggest that modern bioenergy development could mitigate the negative impacts of unstable fossil […]
Posted in All Posts, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, Bioenergy, biofuel, climate change, development, emissions, fuel, greenhouse gas, Issue 2, policy, sub-Saharan
26 March 2010
Jean Ziegler, vice-chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008). *** Every five seconds a child below ten years of age dies from hunger. Every four minutes somebody loses his/her eye-sight from a lack of Vitamin A. Every day […]
Posted in All Posts, Hot Topic | Tagged Bioenergy, biofuel, climate change, development, emissions, food issues, fuel, greenhouse gas, Issue 2, least developed countries, poverty reduction
7 December 2009
By PAUL DICKINSON – founder and CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project.
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Australia, British, carbon, Carbon Disclosure, CDP, emissions, energy, environment, EU, finance, government policy, greenhouse gas, Kyoto Protocol, New Zealand, Obama, P&G, Paul Dickinson, PepsiCo, risk, UK, United Nations, US