News: ‘Climate & Energy’ Archive
‘BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday that a global climate deal could still be ready by a December summit in Copenhagen despite differences that resurfaced last week between rich and poor countries.’
via Global climate deal still possible: Brazil’s Lula | Green Business | Reuters.
‘MUNICH Reuters – The Desertec Industrial Initiative, the world’s most ambitious solar power project, will map out investment plans by 2012 to develop carbon-free energy that could supply up to 15 percent of Europe’s needs by 2050.’
via Desertec to develop investment plans by 2012: DII | Green Business | Reuters.
‘WASHINGTON Reuters – The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled guidelines that will allow companies to apply for some $3 billion in government funds to boost development of renewable energy projects around the country, creating jobs.’
via U.S. makes $3 billion available for renewable energy | Green Business | Reuters.
‘L’AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – A G8 summit made scant progress toward a new U.N. climate treaty due to be agreed in December with some nations back-pedaling on promises of new action even before the end of a meeting in Italy.’
via G8 makes scant progress to Copenhagen climate pact | Green Business | Reuters.
‘Members of the Obama Administration have embarked on a “listening tour” in rural America this summer, but let’s hope the visits involve more than listening. This is a moment for the Administration’s top officials to engage farmers, ranchers and rural residents in a robust exchange of ideas about their role in a new American economy.’
‘It didn’t take long for the counterfeit climate bill known as Waxman-Markey to push back against President Obama’s agenda. As the president was arriving in Italy for his first Group of Eight summit, the New York Times was reporting that efforts to close ranks on global warming between the G-8 and the emerging economies had already tanked’
via Dr. James Hansen: G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change.
‘BOSTON (Reuters) – Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens’s step back from his plan to build the world’s largest wind farm in Texas shows how a brutal recession could change the way the United States invests in renewable energy.’
via Pickens’s pullback could signal shift in the wind | Reuters.
‘L’AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – Russia will not be able to achieve the G8 goal of cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, the Russian delegation’s sherpa said on Wednesday.’
via Russia can’t hit 80 percent emission cut target | Green Business | Reuters.
‘L’AQUILA, Italy Reuters – The G8 agreed on Wednesday to try to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent, but it failed to persuade China and India to join a bid to halve world emissions.’
via G8 agrees to limit global warming; China, India resist | Green Business | Reuters.