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Category Archives: Energy & Climate Change
The True Value of Saving Energy
The task of encouraging sustainability while appealing to current American values is tricky. A case in point is an ongoing Department of Energy advertising campaign encouraging consumers to save energy that has the unfortunate side effect of inducing wasteful consumption.
Tagged consumption, energy, marketing
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Personal carbon allowances – Can we make a start?
I believe that some form of personal carbon allowance, at least from an ethical perspective, is something that we should be striving for. However, I have no illusions about the difficulties involved in implementing any such scheme nationally, let alone internationally.
Why We Need the “Renewable Development Index”: New Worldwatch Project Aims to Measure the Impact of Renewable Energy (Part 2 of 2)
As we described last week, there is a growing consensus that the time is right for a global shift to sustainable energy solutions. The Worldwatch Institute, in partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), is taking a leading role in facilitating this shift through the creation of the Renewable Development Index.
Tagged development, energy, Renewable
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Green Buildings and Energy Efficiency Projects: Do They Make Dollars and Sense?
Last week I spoke as part of a panel at the annual BuildingsNY trade show in New York City. Together with three other lawyers, we addressed one of the most important (and potentially valuable) issues facing building owners today: The benefits and pitfalls of LEED certification and energy efficiency retrofits to reduce energy costs and lower environmental impacts by running greener, more efficient buildings.
Why We Need the “Renewable Development Index”: New Worldwatch Project Aims to Measure the Impact of Renewable Energy (Part 1 of 2)
Energy is at the very foundation of modern economies. Since the Industrial Revolution more than 200 years ago, all countries—if at a quite different pace—have developed on the back of the production and burning of fossil fuels. There is no doubt that the comfortable lives many of us live today would not be possible without the fossil-fueled development of the past.
Tagged development, energy, Renewable
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Demand Clean Energy
Renewable energy firms, campaigners and Ministers from all over the world waiting for a long over-due keynote speech on the environment were left feeling somewhat deflated last week, as the Prime Minister’s talk at the Clean Energy Ministerial fell far short of expectations.
Tagged energy, green economy, politics, UK Politics
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Interview with Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom on climate change
The governance of natural resources like land, the oceans, rivers and the atmosphere, can affect the impact of some of the world’s biggest crises caused by natural events like droughts and floods. How best to manage those resources has been at the heart of the work by Nobel Prize winner (economics) Elinor Ostrom.
Tagged climate change, economics, leadership, science
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Are oil subsidies worth the price?
Anyone who has been to Indonesia knows that petrol, particularly for motorbikes, is as much as necessity of daily life in Indonesia as nasi goreng (fried rice) and es teh (sweet iced jasmine tea). That is why it is such a big decision for the Indonesian government to set the stage for a rise in fuel costs and by association food, which is heavily dependent on the oil price.
Tagged energy, Fuel Prices, politics, transportation
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