News Roundup
‘The Quercus Trust and 21Ventures said Wednesday they have invested $2 million in Westford, Mass.-based GreenRay, which is pairing solar panels with its microinverters to create AC solar panels.’
via Greentech Media: Solar Goes Modular: GreenRay Raises $2M.
‘China, like the United States, seems ready to take off as a ravenous consumer of solar energy.
Earlier this week, China’s largest solar company, Suntech Power (NYSE: STP), said it had signed letters of intent to build four solar farms totaling 1.8 gigawatts for provincial and city governments in China.’
via Greentech Media: True or False: China Will Be a Bigger Solar Market than the U.S..
‘LONDON (Reuters) – A dual system of both national emissions caps and carbon trading schemes should play a central role in cutting global greenhouse gas emissions, a report commissioned by the British government said on Monday.’
via CO2 caps central to climate fight: UK | Green Business | Reuters.
‘SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United Nations has given a green light to the first of a new generation of carbon offset programs designed to bring carbon reductions to a mass market in developing nations.’
via U.N. approves new generation carbon offset project | Green Business | Reuters.
‘WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce Monday that his department is temporarily barring the filing of new uranium mining claims on about 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, an Obama administration official said.’
Reuters video covers alternative agriculture: one small organic dairy farmer’s fund raising efforts in New York.
‘GURGAON, India (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sounded optimistic on Sunday that the United States and India can bridge their differences on reducing greenhouse gases.’
via Clinton upbeat on climate change talks with India | Green Business | Reuters.
‘OSLO (Reuters) – The Pacific island state of Tuvalu set a goal Sunday of a 100 percent shift to renewable energy by 2020, hoping to set an example to industrialized nations to cut greenhouse gases it blames for rising sea levels.’
via At risk from rising seas, Tuvalu seeks clean power | Green Business | Reuters.
‘Shipping accounts for nearly three percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and pressure has grown for cuts ahead of a crucial climate change summit in Copenhagen in December. Delegates from around 90 countries approved non-compulsory technical and operational measures to reduce greenhouse emissions from ships.’
via U.N. shipping body agrees to CO2-cutting proposals | Green Business | Reuters.
‘It goes without saying that the more electricity we consume, the more CO2 gets generated by power stations. Less obvious is the fact that, as demand goes up, each unit of electricity becomes more polluting – the “carbon intensity” goes up, to use the jargon.’