Business Edition
nr 106
July 3, 2008
Special:
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Sustainable energy most attractive to capital investors
Despite the unstable financial markets, renewable energy and energy efficiency industries attracted 60% more investment in 2007 than in 2006. Over 93 billion Euros entered the sustainable energy sector in 2007, according to the latest estimates of the UN Environment Programme. Read more
'CCS buys us time for the transition to a low-carbon economy'
Speaking at the opening of the Conference on CCS in a low carbon energy future in The Hague, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Maria van der Hoeven, re-stated the Dutch government's commitment in helping carbon capture and storage (CCS) become commercially available as soon as possible. Read more
Who is to pay the CCS bill?
Politicians, businessmen, scientists, think tanks and other stakeholders agree on the need for cooperation concerning CCS. Especially, they agreed on the need for governmental financial and policy support. Read more
Editorial: The rich new actors on CCS
The money (or the will to spend it) needed for CCS development to become a reliable and economically viable technology is just still not there, and neither is the sense of urgency to reach electricity generation with ‘clean’ fossil fuels as soon as possible. A two-day CCS Conference left the impression that everyone is waiting for everyone. The entrance of the Middle East as an obvious stakeholder could be crucial. Read more
The Sustatement
This month's Sustatement:
“The 10% EU target is required to establish a 100% sustainable biofuels market within ten years”
Following the discussion about the need for sustainability criteria required to reach the 10% biofuels target within the EU Directive for the Promotion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, we invited Carlos St.James, President of the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber and Managing Director of the biofuels consultancy Santiago & Sinclair LLC. Read more 
G8: a new step forward?
Next week, the largest developed and developing countries will meet in Japan, discussing climate change policies ranking nr.1 on the agenda of topics. The G8+5 meeting will be another milestone towards an international climate change deal by the end of next year. What can be expected? Read
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WWF: G8 policies still not adequate
None of the eight largest countries in the world (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK and US) are implementing enough measures meeting the goal of a maximum 2°C global temperature rise. In the new G8 Climate Scorecards, published by WWF and assurance company Allianz, the UK scores the best and the US the worst. Read
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Climate change tops French agenda for the EU
This week, France took over the Presidency of the EU Council from Slovenia. In his welcome word, French president Nicolas Sarkozy mentions climate change and the environment as the two first issues to be dealt with, together with immigration, food safety, health, the economy and finance. Read
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In Brief
- Spain leads in the world’s energy sector
- 7.7 million tonnes of biofuels consumed in Europe during 2007
- SSE to invest in renewable energy in Scotland and England ports
- Duke Energy acquires wind projects developer’ company
- EREC urges Brussels to maintain the 10% biofuels target
- World Bank Climate Investment Funds
- An index for climate change cooperation
- UK government selects four bidders for its CCS demo competition
- Company News in Brief
- UK launches consultation to increase renewable energy
- PM Brown: €125 billion needed for UK to meet renewable energy target
- "National plans don't take energy efficiency very seriously"
- German solar industry wants share in grid company
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