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Developing nations may be able to realize billions of dollars in revenue simply by slowing the rate at which their forests are being destroyed www.reuters.com.
According to a new United Nations study, a 10% decline in the rate of tropical forest loss could generate annual carbon finance for developing nations of as much as […]

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As tough as times are for the U.S.’s Big Three automakers, in the blink of an eye the American auto industry could be wiped out by a most unlikely adversary: Wal-Mart.
That was the gist of remarks made by Anne Korin, executive director of the Set America Free Coalition, an energy independence advocacy group, […]

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Many biofuel producers could be dealt a “crippling blow” from proposed legislation, a new report warns.
The report, from Menlo, Calif.-based SRI Consulting, concludes that under current carbon certification proposals in Europe, “nearly half of biodiesel and half of bioethanol capacity” in Europe are threatened. U.S. producers could also be affected.

The problem, according to […]

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“Ah but I may as well try and catch the sun…” Donovan might just as well have lamented in his iconic 1960s ballad about wind and lost love. Lament has long been the mood of solar energy enthusiasts seeking to compensate for the sun’s intermittency. In search of what to […]

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Wind energy started as what the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) refers to as “small wind.” There was a time when the wind “mill” was ubiquitous on the rural landscape. Now, thanks to the most modern of electrical technology, wind energy is returning to its roots.
In many places where wind […]

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Royal Dutch Shell is doing damage control.
In drafting plans for its post-2012 period of climate change mitigation, the EU has proposed making oil refineries (as well as airlines and other industrial sectors) pay for 20% of emissions by 2013 and 100% by 2020.
Shell France’s Christian Balmes told the EU parliament […]

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