Climate Change

May 19, 2010

BioFuels from Crops – Answer to Climate Change and Global Warming?

Biofuels were all the rage during the Bush administration which mandated the use of biofuels for the Transportation Industry.It led to a huge boom in biofuel […]
May 18, 2010

BP oil spill faces Presidential Commission as “Cozy Relationship” between Companies and the Regulator gets highlighted ; BP claims "partial success"

The BP oil spill has garnered unprecedented media coverage due to the major environment impact it could have on some of the coastal states of the […]
May 13, 2010

Have US and Europe already Lost the Green Industry Leadership to China

China is recognized as the manufacturing hub of the world due to its low cost of labor and capital coupled with the  pro industry policies of […]
May 12, 2010

US Senate Proposes a "Climate Bill" with support for "Nuclear" and "Oil Drilling" ;Even Then has Little Chance of Being Passed

US has been a laggard in matters of in the climate mitigation issue compared to   Japan and Europe.They are even having trouble in formulating the bill […]
May 10, 2010

BP Oil Spill Gives another Excuse for the US to delay the climate Bill

The US has been a laggard on the climate change mitigation compared to the progressive stances taken by Europe and Japan.Despite strong hopes raised by the […]
May 9, 2010

Lufthansa to use BioFuel in its Planes to Reduce Costs of buying Carbon Certificates

Lufthansa is going to mix biofuel with kerosene for its planes starting from 2012 . The EU is mandating the ETS system for the flight industry […]
May 9, 2010

Greek Contagion – 15% Oil Correction has Kuwait asking OPEC to support Prices

The last week’s sharp decline in commodities and stock markets has a lot of people making half baked statements while others are panicking . We had […]
May 8, 2010

Green Weekend Readings

Choosing an Alternative Energy ETF – Seeking Alpha Gives a good idea on which ETFs are out there to invest in green technology,though you would have […]
May 7, 2010

Another Greek Crisis Casualty – EU Carbon Prices Fall from 17 Month High

EU Carbon prices which had gone ups after the 2009 lows on the back of economy recovery are also falling again.Would make sense since the economy […]
May 5, 2010

Pictet Clean Energy Fund Picks

Here are some thoughts from the Pictet Clean Energy Fund reported on Bloomberg Pictet Clean Energy Fund Finds Value in Cree’s LEDs – Businessweek Ask Pictet […]
May 4, 2010

Solar Price Elasticity drives sharp Demand growth – EPIA predicts 12.7 GW solar installations in 2010

EPIA joined the bandwagon of analysts and research firms predicting a large increase in global solar installations in 2010. Solar demand growth will be be >50% […]
May 3, 2010

Growing number of Global Financial institutions funding Solar – ADB to support solar with a $9 Billion Initiative

Large multilateral developmental institutions are boosting adoption of solar energy through large scaling funding efforts.European Investment Bank recently announced more than Euro 500 million in financing […]
May 3, 2010

BP becomes "desperate" after state pressure mounts to stop the Gulf Oil spill;Flocks of lawyers descend;Human costs Mount

BP is finally waking up from its stupor and looking for help on stopping the oil spilling for its rig in the Gulf of Mexico. While […]
May 2, 2010

Obama and BP try to damage control the Gulf Oil spill

President Obama will pay a visit on Sunday to the scene of the one of biggest oil spills to strike US coastal waters. This visit  will […]
May 1, 2010

After China and Canada(Ontario) ,USA could mandate "local content" provisions for Renewable Energy

Ontario,Canada  has a 60% “local content” requirement for renewable energy installed in the province.This is illegal according to WTO but unless someone challenges it in the […]
April 30, 2010

USA doing precious little on climate change

With Obama’s election there were lots of hope on the climate change issue with regards to the USA. Under the previous Republican administrations US was actively […]
April 30, 2010

Lack of Global Agreement on Climate Change will lead to Trade Friction

Copenhagen was a disaster and there has been no agreement on how to proceed with policies on a global basis to deal with the ever growing […]
April 29, 2010

Europe's pathway to 100% renewable energy by 2050

EREC has released a  new report “Re-thinking 2050” outlining the roadmap to make Europe 100% powered by renewable energy by 2050  . The report was released […]