Yesterday, as the climate talks in Durban were coming to the close, delegates from around the world finally arrived at a compromise. After a marathon negotiation which spanned three sleepless nights, the delegates managed to save the international pro…
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Nov 29
A Clean Energy Resource Too Large to be Ignored – Geothermal Power Gains Steam
Geothermal power’s been something of an orphan when it comes to the drive to transition from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy economies. That’s despite the release of recent studies showing that the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia – W…
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Nov 18
A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search
Renewable energy has received exceptional help from the government. That is ending, but some say it has been unnecessary.
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Green Blog: Chu to Testify on Solyndra’s Collapse
“When it comes to the clean energy race, America faces a simple choice: compete or accept defeat,” the energy secretary said in his prepared remarks on a loan to Solyndra.
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IEA warns: five years to slash emissions or face dangerous climate change
Not known for alarmism and sometimes criticized for being too optimistic, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that without bold action in the next five years the world will lock itself into high-emissions energy sources that will push clim…
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Oct 25
California finalizes cap-and-trade program
Bucking long-stalled efforts in the US to combat global climate change, California has approved final rules for a cap-and-trade program set to go into effect in 2013. The program will require large polluters in California to reduce emissions or to ‘tra…
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New Zealand adjusts its CO2 trading program to address market distortions
New Zealand is looking to exclude the use of U.N. offsets from industrial gas projects in its emissions trading scheme from as soon as 2012, as these offsets threaten to distort the market, the government said on Friday.
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