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Cleantech Investing Abounds E-mail
Written by David Klecha   
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Is there an echo in here?
 
The good news coming from venture capitalists last year is that they're continuing to support the growth and expansion of the cleantech industry at a record-setting pace.  According to Reuters, cleantech investment topped $5 billion for 2007, a 44% jump from 2006 (which was, itself, a similar increase over 2005 numbers).

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Last Updated ( Sunday, 03 February 2008 )
 
Is the United States Ready to Join the Carbon Reduction Revolution? E-mail
Written by Mark Bershatsky   
Sunday, 04 November 2007
In sharp contrast to just two years ago, concerns about climate change have now become a household topic. What caused this epidemic to tip (apologies to Malcolm Gladwell)? Was it the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth? Was it G.W. Bush mentioning those two magic words in his 2007 State of the Union address just six months later? Or was it the alternative energy industry using it as a tool in its marketing strategy in order for clean technologies to gain market acceptance?
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 November 2007 )
 
Taking Lomborg Seriously E-mail
Written by Michael Tobis   
Tuesday, 11 September 2007

The NYTimes is featuring an article today on Bjorn Lomborg's take on climate change.

While the content won't be unfamiliar to most people who follow the issue, let me quote the gist of it:

“Wealth is a more important factor than sea-level rise in protecting you from the sea. You can draw maps showing 100 million people flooded out of their homes from global warming, but look at what’s happened here in New York. It’s the same story in Denmark and Holland — we’ve been gaining land as the sea rises.”

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In his new book, he dismisses the Kyoto emissions cuts as a “feel-good” strategy because it sounds virtuous and lets politicians make promises they don’t have to keep. He outlines an alternative “do-good” strategy that would cost less but accomplish more in dealing with climate change as well as more pressing threats like malaria, AIDS, polluted drinking water and malnutrition.

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But preparing for the worst in future climate is expensive, which means less money for the most serious threats today — and later this century. You can imagine plenty of worst-case projections that have nothing to do with climate change, as Dr. Lomborg reminded me at the end of our expedition.

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 September 2007 )
 
Policing the Voluntary Carbon Markets: The Sheriff is Near E-mail
Written by Mark Bershatsky   
Monday, 23 July 2007
Photo:Juhanson, Creative Commons, Flickr
In a joint report issued last week by Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance, an approximate total of 23.7 million tons, or US$91 million, of CO2 traded in the voluntary, non-Kyoto supported carbon markets in 2006. While this pales in comparison to the 1.1 billion tons of CO2, or US$24.4 billion, traded on the Kyoto-supported European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) last year, the voluntary markets are nonetheless carving out their own niche in the era of climate change. It is estimated that voluntary carbon trading so far this year has already almost matched that of all last year.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 July 2007 )
 
NYSE Looks to be the Stock Market of the World, but What are the Legal Conflicts? E-mail
Written by Thomas Chenoweth   
Monday, 02 July 2007

Lawmakers and securities regulators have been surprisingly silent on the recent alliance between the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext (the first trans-Atlantic securities exchange), and the future possibilities for mergers due to take place in Japan, India and other regional stock exchanges that the big board has under their radar.

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Last Updated ( Monday, 02 July 2007 )
 
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