Business Edition
nr 77
November 22, 2007
Special:
Commission takes the lead in energy innovation
Cooperation, concentration and effective implementation are the key words in the EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan that has been published today. The European Commission wants to concentrate and focus on certain technologies, join forces and combine national R&D programmes. “I hope that Member States will have the courage to come with us”, said Research Commissioner Janusz Potoçnik. Read more
Research and new technologies will direct Europe’s energy future
The European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) is an element of the Energy Package proposed by the Commission in January 2007. Read more
Editorial: Innovation plan misses an opportunity
Today, the European Commission published its Strategic plan for Energy Technology (SET) development in the next decades. However, the strategic plan does not breathe the necessarily rigorous change in the energy supply. In this regard, the first part of the Energy Package is a bit disappointing. Read more
IPCC’s Synthesis Report finalised
This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the last missing link to start Bali negotiations was made public. The Report is a Synthesis of the three separate reports presented earlier this year. Read more
PM Brown confirms Britain’s climate intentions
Despite earlier publications about UK officials and even Ministers trying to withdraw from ambitious climate change policies, Britain persists in contributing high emission reductions. Prime Minister Gordon Brown himself confirmed. Read more
German government and industry sign ‘Biofuels Roadmap’
The German Ministries of Environment (BMU) and Agriculture (BMELV) presented a strategy for the development of biofuels. Together with the industry (cars, oil, agriculture) they want to increase the share of biofuels in the next few years in a sustainable way. Read more
WEC: unprecedented global cooperation required
Achieving a sustainable energy future will require an unprecedented level of global cooperation between industry and government, and deeper integration of regional and international energy markets. According to the 20th Energy World Congress in Rome. Read more
International carbon credits registry online
This week the UN Climate Change Secretariat announced that the International Transaction Log (ITL) has become operational. This means the last element of the Kyoto Protocol’s emissions trading system has been put in place. Read more
Renowned Polish environment expert assigned as Minister
Today, Professor Maciej Nowicki has been assigned as the new Polish minister of environment. He has become a member of the government formed by the Civic Platform, which won parliamentary elections in October. Read more
In Brief
- OPEC’s first steps into the global warming fight
- ‘China will take the lead in renewable energy’
- E.ON aims to become ‘renewables leader’
- New RWE company for renewables
- US Court rejects Fuel Standards on Light Trucks
- France and Germany in car emissions battle
- BP focuses on butanol and jatropha
- Parliament gives its mandate for Bali
- Offshore ‘Gode Wind I’ taken up by Evelop and Plambeck
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