Cutting GHG Emissions of Industrial Parks by 35% through Corporate Collaboration
March 17, 2013Buy local, drive less, switch to renewable energy – these are just a few of the omnipresent suggestions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the personal level. By no means do I aim to discredit their significance, but it strikes me that they are pushed just everywhere, whereas measures on other levels are hard to find. Pragmatic ideas to improve an individual company's climate bills are less ...
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67 Quick-Payoff Measures to Reduce Urban Carbon Emissions
January 30, 2013Transforming the energy supply from fossil to renewable sources is a goal that makes sense, but even so, it is not enough. As I wrote last week, the entire energy system needs a transformation, embracing a maximum of energy efficiency. A suitable approach would not be an isolated one, but rather one that integrates both the supply and the demand sides. This is one of the conclusions drawn from the last “synthesis report” published recently by the Low Carbon Society Research Network. The report summarized their fourth annual meeting, held in September in Oxford. Despite the fact that the three ...
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19 Industry Reports - How Global Compact Promotes Efficiency
December 3, 2012Energy costs are on the rise. Their increase is so steady that now even the United Nations has established a program to promote energy efficiency in the private sector. Sustainable Energy for All is the newest set of goals for the United Nations Global Compact. The Global Compact claims to be the world's largest corporate responsibility initiative and its newest set of goals has three objectives for business in 2030. First, universal access to modern energy services is sought. Second, energy efficiency is to be doubled. And third, the aspiration is to double the share of renewable energy. In ...
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Only 16.7% of Global Energy Consumption Is Renewable – Ways for I ...
June 26, 2012 6 CommentsYou know studies. You know reports. You know data collections. But you don't know Ren21? You should. Ren21, calling itself an international policy network promoting renewable energy, publishes an annual global renewable energy status report supported by 39 renewable energy professionals plus numerous regional researchers who verify the precision of the global coverage. In the report you find detailed diagrams for any renewable power source and more diagrams showing their development from 2010 to 2011. Because both government officials and NGO representatives, both intergovernmental organizatio...
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The Path to a Green Economy - Lessons From Germany
February 12, 2012 4 CommentsWhat green economy deals with is the idea of running our businesses in a sustainable way. All of them. All of us. Running a business in a sustainable way means that, while doing business, you preserve the basis of your business. One business may be based on a talent, another one on an idea, a third one on luck. There are capital intense businesses, risky businesses and there is dad's business. What they all have in common, every single one of them, is they all require a certain state of affairs to run. I don't refer to the classic triangle of land, labor and capital here - I stretch the point ...
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Carbon Neutral Cities - Where? When? How?
October 3, 2011 1 CommentThe city of Seattle recently announced a new goal for 2050: Achieving complete carbon neutrality. What measures are taken? What other efforts are made globally, in order to achieve the objective of a 100% climate neutral city? In this article, I shed light on the initiatives towards a new, climate friendly urbanity. Seattle: 90% Greenhouse Gas Reduction in 2050 First of all, let's look at Seattle's definition of "carbon free". The city aims for a 90% reduction in greenhouse gases in 2050, compared to 2008 levels. Following a gradual approach to the timetable, we can expect a step by step red...
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Biomass Lagging Behind Prospering Wind and Solar Markets
September 1, 2011 6 CommentsThe newest Country Attractiveness Index for Renewable Energy, conducted by Ernst & Young, rates China the most attractive country for investments in renewable energy (71 points), followed by the USA (67). As reports Business Green, “little has changed at the top of the rankings since the previous quarter.” Four times a year, analyzed countries obtain a score of up to 100 points for their national renewable energy markets and infrastructures. 65% of the total score is provided by the separate wind energy index, 18% by solar and 17% by biomass and other energies. There has been little movem...
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Energy Efficiency, Policy Problem Child No.1
August 31, 201120% reduction of greenhouse gases until 2020 - We're on the right track. 20% renewable energy - Almost there. More than likely, the two first of the three 20-20-20 EU objectives will be achieved. But there is a third one. 20% reduction of energy consumption - Ouch! Accomplishing 20-20-20 Objectives by 2/3 In reference to the year 1990, all of the 27 EU member states want to reduce their energy consumption by 20% until 2020. But the current trend for 2020 promises a reduction of only 10%. Well, let's begin with the facts, the good facts first. We can expect an overall GHG reduction of 20...
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Carbon Neutral Online Shopping – How Green are Mail Order Compani ...
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Biomass Lagging Behind Prospering Wind and Solar Markets
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How Sustainable are Europe's 5 Million E-Cars in 2020? New LCA Gu ...
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10 Appropriate Indicators to Measure Green Growth in Industry
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5 Clear-Cut Economic Benefits of Sustainability Reporting
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How to Recycle Phosphorus, the Most Least-Known Scarce Resource
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ISO 14051-Based Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Nutshell
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The Truth About the Dragon: China's Future is Inevitably Green
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