Short notes

Here are some interesting news items from this week: Check out Yamina Saheb’s new blog on the IEA Sustainable Buildings Centre website. Ah, for us all to have the dream . . . Congratulations to Erica Hope for the years of good work on energy efficiency she put in at Climate Action Network Europe. Erica … Continue reading Short notes →

Time flies . . .

This week marks the first anniversary of EiD. We launched in January 2012 with a simple concept: share news about the progress, obstacles and fascination of the world of sustainable energy... energy efficiency, renewable energy, and the policy context of climate change. Our focus is on Europe but news is global. And we only post … Continue reading Time flies . . . →

Quote of the week

Obama made a point of highlighting how much emphasis he gave the issue after Representative Henry A. Waxman (Democrat-Calif.) thanked him afterward for mentioning climate change. “I didn’t just mention it, I talked about it,” Obama parried, according to Waxman.

Quote of the week

“For the IEA, carbon capture and storage is not a substitute, but a necessary addition to other low-carbon energy technologies and energy efficiency improvements,” Juho Lipponen, head of the IEA Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Unit, recently told the 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies in Kyoto, Japan. Mr. Lipponen added, “Fossil-fuel CCS … Continue reading Quote of the week →

Quote of the week

Tim Yeo, MP, Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee in the British Parliament, in reacting to the government’s pro-gas stance: "Lumbering the UK economy with a centralized power system largely reliant on gas, would be like running an office using a fax machine in the age of the iPad," he said. Mr. … Continue reading Quote of the week →

Thought for the week

This is an excellent quote by Richard Dawkins, the renowned biologist and author. For those working in sustainable energy, this is important to remember When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Quote of the week

With the EED now approved and all the arguments for and against transition to thoughts of just how this will be implemented, remember this quote from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He who has a why can endure any how

Committing to a low-carbon economy

Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the provoking 2006 study on the economics of climate change, wrote this week in the Financial Times about the importance of the government fully committing itself to a low-carbon economy. While the focus is on the United Kingdom, it provides important lessons for all countries. Cameron must commit to low-carbon … Continue reading Committing to a low-carbon economy →

Walt Patterson’s website

One of the truly thoughtful experts in Europe about energy matters is Walt Patterson. He is trained as a nuclear physicist and has published thirteen books and hundreds of papers, articles and reviews, on nuclear power, coal technology, renewable energy, energy systems, energy policy and electricity. Since 1991 he has been a fellow of what … Continue reading Walt Patterson’s website →

Pot pourri

EiD welcomes the appointment of three colleagues to new positions. Pernille Schiellerup has replaced Anita Eide has the Director of European Programmes of CLASP (www.clasponline.org). Most recently Pernille had been with the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP). Anita has returned to Oslo. Dan Staniaszek has joined the Buildings Performance Institute Europe where he will … Continue reading Pot pourri →