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January 2010: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released an information paper titled “The Economics of Transition in the Power Sector,” which analyzes the micro-economics of transitioning to cleaner power generation technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, highlighting the importance of risk perception in investment decisions in the power sector.
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The Environment Development Center of China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has signed a memorandum of understanding with the British Standards Institution on the certification of low-carbon products.
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Climate change is a problem private equity must address, according to the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) as it welcomed a new report published by a collaboration of European investors into how to accelerate investment in a low-carbon economy.
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The UK could become a leader in cheap energy producing low carbon technologies, an environmental group has said.
According to the Green Alliance, the UK has the skills in existing manufacturing which places it in a good position to do well in the global low carbon race.
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The NSW Government will today host a roundtable discussion on the opportunities and risks for businesses in moving to a low-carbon economy, Minister for State Development Ian Macdonald said.
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The CSIRO has set its sights on increasing the nation’s agricultural productivity by 50 per cent, while cutting carbon emissions by the same amount.
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A report produced by lobbying coalition, the Aldersgate Group, has urged the government to extend its low carbon industrial strategy to include improving the efficiency with which resources other than carbon, such as water and materials, are produced and used.
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Green retrofits of existing buildings are essential, and finance should be made available to do the work, or the government will fail to meet its carbon cutting targets, according to key players in the housing and construction sector. Interested organisations working with all sectors including financial institutions, builders and installers, energy utilities, manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, social housing managers, homeowners, landlords, local authorities as well as with government have joined together to outline a plan of action for upgrading the UK’s woefully outdated housing stock.
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Britain’s businesses should see the economic benefits of being environmentally-friendly, according to the environment secretary.
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A committment to agree legally-binding international cuts in carbon emissions is vital to prevent dangerous climate change, WWF Scotland said today.
The environmental group made the call on the deadline day for nations to sign-up to an international climate accord. The “Copenhagen Accord” asks countries to submit figures by the end of January on how much they will curb emissions.
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CEOs from some of the world’s leading global financial institutions met with their industry and clients in Davos last week to stress their role in unlocking a low carbon economy and the business benefits this will bring.
Despite a year of economic turmoil and the lack of a legally binding agreement in Copenhagen, the institutions, representing total assets of over US$ 5.5 trillion, said they were undeterred in their ambition and efforts to be a leading part of the transition to a low carbon economy.
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The B.C. government should strengthen its carbon tax in the 2010 budget, according to a set of recommendations released by the Pembina Institute today.
If adopted, the recommendations will ensure more investment, innovation and job creation in low-carbon businesses, while achieving greater greenhouse gas emissions reductions, says the Institute.
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The Government has named the nine local councils which it will work with to develop a programme of action to tackle climate change. The Communities Secretary, John Denham, said radical action by local authorities to drive down carbon emissions would cut fuel bills and reduce global warming.
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One million people in Bangkok are expected to feel the catastrophic impacts of climate change by 2050, prompting concerned government agencies to introduce measures to cope, says the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB).
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It’s 2015 and the CEO is facing the shareholders at the AGM. The company is reeling under the weight of Chinese competition, rapidly escalating carbon costs and investor attack for being a laggard in the exciting economic transformation to a low carbon economy. The CEO tries to explain the company’s slow response, reminding shareholders that in 2010 he faced regulatory uncertainty, the perceived failure of the Copenhagen conference, debates on the science and an investment community focused on the global recession. The shareholders aren’t buying it and they’re not buying his company’s stock either. They want answers and they want to know how the company missed the obvious signals in 2010?
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