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Carlos Pascual: Making Green Projects ‘Greener’

Carlos Pascual Ihs
February 02, 2015

Trillions of dollars need to be invested in power over the next two decades. Here’s how to make emissions-reducing projects more attractive.

 

Over the course of 2015, large parts of the energy and environmental world will focus attention on achieving a new form of legally binding climate agreement in Paris under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Ban Ki-moon: Why 2015 Will Be the Year of Sustainability

Ban Ki Moon United Nations
January 28, 2015
2015 will be an historic year for the United Nations. The Organization will celebrate its 70th anniversary, offering a chance to look back on its contributions to peace, human rights and development since its creation in 1945. The year will also be an opportunity to look forward — and in particular how to ensure that people everywhere can thrive on our one and only planet. 2015 is when we will set our course for a sustainable future.
 
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Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
December 17, 2014
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important contributor to the health and well-being of people than the supply of energy.
 

In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?
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Mark Baker: Magic in the Moonlight

Mark Baker GE
December 10, 2014
Our ancestors knew when to plant by looking at it, ship captains navigate by it, and wolves howl at it … and now its draw will power our cities.  After solar power, moon power — or more exactly tidal power — is well positioned to provide a sustainable, limitless power supply for years to come.
 
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Taking the Carbon Out of Power Markets — Q&A with Manuel Baritaud

Manuel Baritaud International Energy Agency
November 17, 2014
As countries around the world seek to address climate change, one obvious place to focus is power production.
 

Not only does electricity generation account for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions, but the power sector is also expected to play more of a role in reducing the share of fossil fuels in the global energy mix than any other, the International Energy Agency (IEA) explains in its latest World Energy Outlook.
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Eileen Claussen: Addressing Climate Change in the Absence of Policy

Eileen Claussen Center For Climate And Energy Solutions
November 10, 2014
For the past two decades, governments, companies and non-­governmental organizations concerned about climate change have looked to comprehensive global and national policy solutions.
 

While this approach makes sense — given that climate change is a global issue and market­-based national or international solutions would be far less expensive solutions than command and control approaches — an ambitious, binding international treaty has yet to materialize. And here in the U.S., climate change legislation doesn’t look likely for the foreseeable future.
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Will the Sun Become the World’s Dominant Source of Power?

October 28, 2014
Every day, somewhere in the world, up to 100 megawatts of new solar power goes online. The global capacity to transform sunrays into clean, carbon-free electricity topped 150 gigawatts of this year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), with the U.S. accounting for about a tenth of that.
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Amit Narayan: How Data Will Power the Future of Energy

Dr Amit Narayan Autogrid Inc
October 16, 2014
Throughout history, we’ve equated energy with the consumption of natural resources such as oil, natural gas or coal.
 

In the coming decades we will start to think of data and software as a source of energy.

What do I mean by that? Software won’t generate electrons, but it will let us leverage the electricity we are already generating in a more efficient and productive way.
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Michael H. Posner: Why It Pays for Businesses to Boost Sustainability

Michael H Posner Nyu Stern School Of Business
September 05, 2014
In recent weeks, Samsung suspended its operations with a key supplier in China because of allegations of child labor in its production facilities. Major oil companies faced environmental challenges in the fields where they operate, from the Amazon to West Africa, and internet providers continued to respond to intense public pressures to enhance privacy protections for their users in the aftermath of the Snowden/NSA disclosures.
 
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Let’s Stop Equating Environmental Reforms With Economic Stagnation

Deep Patel Gigawatt Inc
July 21, 2014
President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency recently unveiled its highly anticipated proposal to curb power plant emissions.
Meanwhile, some people remain thoroughly convinced that climate change has no connection with power plant emissions. As the cornerstone of Obama’s climate change policy, this proposal is now met with adamant opposition.
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