Sadhbh Walshe wrote recently in the Guardian about the race underway to develop innovative, cost-effective ways to extract value from waste water instead of just dumping it. The scientists and startups converting waste water into clean energy Traditionally, waste water treatment has focused on removing toxic waste from the water so it could be safely … Continue reading Transforming waste water to clean energy
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EU Emissions Trading System under the microscope
Nathaniel Keohane and Gernot Wagner provide an excellent analysis in the Financial Times of the Emissions Trading System (ETS). The writers are vice-president for international climate and senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund based in the US. Judge a carbon market by its cap, not its prices The goal of the union’s ETS is … Continue reading EU Emissions Trading System under the microscope
UK energy company disputes government estimates
Mat Hope provides an excellent article on the Carbon Brief website of the energy company, Npower, disputing the estimates for the increase of gas and electricity bills in 2020. This is an important topic as energy companies throughout Europe are expected to play an ever increasing role in promoting energy efficiency. And, daily one is … Continue reading UK energy company disputes government estimates
News from the European Commission
DG Energy has published report on energy performance certificates On 20 June 2013, the Commission published a study on "Energy performance certificates in buildings and their impact on transaction prices and rents in selected EU countries". The study shows a positive impact of the Energy Performance Certificate under the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (Directive … Continue reading News from the European Commission
Shock at new targets for building codes in Wales
The BBC news website published a report on the recent decision of the Welsh government to drastically reduce the level of ambition in the planned new building codes. Let us hope this doesn't happen in other regions and countries in Europe. Drastic reduction in new home energy efficiency targets Energy efficiency targets for all new … Continue reading Shock at new targets for building codes in Wales
New report: Greening Household Behaviour: The Role of Public Policy
The OECD has recently published a valuable report on the role that public policy can play in affecting our household behaviour. Household consumption patterns and behaviour have an impact on stocks of natural resources, environmental quality and climate change. This is expected to increase significantly in the future. In response, governments have introduced a variety … Continue reading New report: Greening Household Behaviour: The Role of Public Policy
Kenya doing much to promote renewables
Ray Obiero writes for the Thomson Reuters Foundation about the efforts underway in Kenya to promote renewable energy. Kenya is attracting funding for its renewable energy sector because of green policy changes in recent years. Kenya shifts renewable energy funding The recent announcement by the Kenya electricity generating company (Kengen) inviting bids for joint development … Continue reading Kenya doing much to promote renewables
The on-going debate about global warming and economists
John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli have a regular blog in The Guardian called Climateconsensus – the 97%. In this blog, John Abraham explains why he feels the 2009 publication, SuperFreakonomics, is misleading on climate change. Global Warming and Economists - SuperFreakonomics is SuperFreakingWrong Those who purchased the book SuperFreakonomics are paying to be misled about … Continue reading The on-going debate about global warming and economists
How Europe is making the transition to green urban transportation
Erica Gies writes in the New York Times about efforts in Europe to integrate the old with the new to develop a much greener approach to urban transit. Examples are given from Austria, France and Germany. In Europe, Greener Transit on Existing Infrastructure Vienna is employing some old-fashioned technology to run shiny new electric buses … Continue reading How Europe is making the transition to green urban transportation
A novel approach in Norway leads to the winner’s circle
Trust someone from Norway, with the enormous reserves of oil and gas in the country, to come up with an idea to actually pay countries to leave fossil fuels in the ground. Pilita Clark writes in The Financial Times of a prize winning idea by a Norwegian academic. Norwegian’s provocative plan to curb climate … Continue reading A novel approach in Norway leads to the winner’s circle
