Posted in Ecology, Lifestyle, Policy on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
Labelling schemes designed to shift consumer preferences towards more ecologically-friendly goods have had a limited effectiveness and need to be used in combination with other measures, according to panellists who debated the issue during a recent EBS workshop in Brussels, moderated by EurActiv.
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Posted in Hydrogen, Research on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
EU research ministers have approved a regulation setting up a long-term public-private research partnership on hydrogen and fuel cells, with the aim of reducing the time to market for these technologies by 2-5 years and thus cutting CO2 emissions.
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Posted in Biofuels, Research on 2008-02-26 | 3 Comments »
Energy experts participating in a European Union research project called EU-AGROBIOGAS, recently held a meeting at the invitation of the Leibniz Institute for Agrarian Technology Potsdam Bornim (ATB), in order to discuss results from their research. The project, funded under the 6th Framework Program, and involving universities from seven EU member states, runs from 2007 [...]
Posted in CO2-Emission, Policy on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
The US appeared to take a step forward on the talks for a successor to the Kyoto protocol on climate change on Monday by saying it would agree to binding targets for reducing emissions.
However, other countries cautioned that while the move could be positive, it still left unanswered the most important questions on a potential [...]
Posted in CO2-Emission, Economics on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
Predictable carbon pricing is needed to direct world investment flows toward an economy that could minimize climate change, close to 140 governments agreed as they concluded a major meeting on the subject in Monaco. “Sufficiently high and long-term predictable price for carbon will be central for mobilizing capital for the new economy,” according to the [...]
Posted in Building, CO2-Emission, Climate on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
“To win the race against global warming” is the vision of Carbon Challenge, a campaign that unites the ambitious goals of competing in the world’s leading sailing events – the Volvo Ocean Race and the America’s Cup - with the objective of becoming a catalyst and facilitator for a drastic reduction [...]
Posted in Climate, Economics, Europe on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
The lack of clarity regarding the kind of measures the EU will put in place to safeguard the competitiveness of its companies in the event that no global pact on climate is agreed is forcing businesses to delay important investment decisions, according to corporate leaders.Speaking at the 2008 edition of the European Business Summit, representatives [...]
Posted in Climate, Europe, Policy on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
Danish politicians have reached broad cross-party agreement on a comprehensive national energy policy that will “set the agenda for Europe” and meet or exceed EU targets in several areas, the climate and energy ministry has announced.The most ambitious measures include cuts in overall energy consumption from 2006 levels of two per cent by 2011 and [...]
Posted in Energy on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
Many energy executives say sustainability is critical to the success of their operations, but far fewer believe that their companies have embraced the concept, a new survey shows.
Sustainability is an evolving business ethic in which companies set and achieve objectives based on financial, environmental and social performance.
It is often linked with environmental issues but can [...]
