Tag Archives: greenhouse gas emissions

Enablon Recognized as “Emerging Leader” in Groom Energy Enterprise Carbon Accounting Report

The Groom Energy ECA Emerging Leaders vendor ranking was based on a weighting system of: Number of customer deployments, Technology features, Market vision, Financial stability. Our ......

Cornell marks opening of Combined Heat and Power Plant Jan. 15

The occasion was marked at an event on campus for state and local officials, with remarks from Cornell President David Skorton, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Gr......

Verizon and Lineage Power Will Test New Technologies to Reduce Power Used by Information and Communications Technology Equipment

NEW YORK – Lineage Power Corp. and Verizon Communications are partnering to test two new technologies that significantly decrease the amount of electricity used by information and communi......

UN agency highlights potential to fight climate change with grasslands

Properly managed grasslands – even more than forests – could fight climate change by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide, according to a newly released report by the United Nations Food and Ag......

Honeywell’s UOP Awarded U.S. Department Of Energy Grant For Conversion Of Waste Biomass To Green Transportation Fuels

Grant will help efforts to identify fuel alternatives, create jobs DES PLAINES, Ill. — UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today it has been selected for negotiation of a ......

Transcript of interview with Channel 9 news

HOST: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd joins us live, from the summit. Mr Rudd, are you disappointed? PM: Of course it would be great to get a perfect agreement straight away. Youre dealing with 190 c......

Tata Unveils Jaguar XJ and the 4×4, 7-seater Crossover Tata Aria

The Tata Motors Group has unfolded the full scale of its product portfolio and the breadth of its technology capability with a display of 37 vehicles, from the Tata, Jaguar and Land Rover brand......

Green Investing: A Top Ten List For 2010

The investment management team at Portfolio 21 has put together the following 10 guidelines for investing in 2010. 1. Ecological limits matter. The inevitability of our planet’s ecologic......

ZyXEL’s leap towards environmental awareness

ZyXEL Communications (TSE: 2391), world’s leading broadband access solutions provider, today declares that the company’s products that are shipped to and sold on the European market after Janua......

Hong Kong: SEN attending COP15 conference (with photo)

Negotiations in the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP 15) had reached a crucial final stage to achieve a global consensus, the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Edward Yau, sai......

Showcase Displays Biotech Tools to Reduce Carbon Emissions from Industrial Production

Industrial biotechnology is an essential tool for green economic growth because it can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from production of many everyday products – from fabrics to auto par......

POET CEO to discuss global biofuels potential in Copenhagen

Jeff Broin joins other world industry leaders for panel discussion SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – POET CEO Jeff Broin arrived in Copenhagen today to join global biofuel and agriculture leaders in a ......

UN online tool allows people to track nations’ pledges on climate change

People around the world can now keep tabs on countries’ promises and proposals on combating climate change, thanks to a new online tool launched today by the United Nations Environment Programm......

Leonardo Academy Releases White Paper on Defining the Impacts of Forest Carbon Sequestration Offsets

Unlike other types of offset projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a permanent way, such as by generating electricity using wind or collecting and combusting methane emitted from lan......

Landmark UN climate change conference kicks off in Copenhagen

The highly-anticipated United Nations climate change conference kicked off in Copenhagen, Denmark, today with countries issuing urgent calls for action to curb global warming. Over 15,000 peopl......

The Nature Conservancy and Blue Source Launch Innovative Forest Carbon Offering for Private Landowners to Advance Forest Conservation

The Nature Conservancy today launched Working Woodlands, a model forest conservation program that aims to protect forests and fight climate change through an agreement with Blue Source to joint......

Coca-Cola Commits To Climate-Friendly Refrigeration Through Engagement With Greenpeace

A LINK TO BROADCAST QUALITY VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. Investments in supply chain to enable transition to 100 percent HFC-free equipment by 2015 ATLANTA, Dec. 3, 2009 — Days be......

Bombardier Releases Second Company-wide Corporate Social Responsibility Report

- Enhanced role of corporate social responsibility in business strategy - Achieved 10% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions between fiscal 2004 and 2009 and aims to reduce emissions by additio......

Duke Energy Receives $22 Million Federal Grant for Wind Power Storage

Duke Energy intends to match a $22 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to design, build and install large-scale batteries to store wind energy at one of its wind farms in Texas. Th......

U.S.-China Clean Energy Announcements

1. U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center. The two Presidents announced the establishment of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center. The Center will facilitate joint research and develop......

The Linde Group and Algenol Biofuels agree to cooperate in CO2 and O2 management for biofuel production from algae

Munich – The technology group The Linde Group and the US company Algenol Biofuels LLC have agreed to collaborate in a joint development project in order to identify the optimum management......