Business Edition
nr 67
September 13, 2007
Special:
PV industry concerned about EU harmonisation
The PV industry is mobilising to counter forces that are advocating for certificates. “The price of certificates in Europe are now too low to be of any support to photovoltaics”, says Marie Latour, spokeswoman of EPIA (the association of PV industry). Read
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GreenPrices Market Monitor September 2007
GreenPrices Weekly regularly reports on market developments, prices and recent trades of green certificates in Europe. This week: Guarantees of Origin, Elcertificates, Walloon certificates, UK ROCs prices, Italian 'certificate verdi' and Polish green certificates. Read more
G8: 'Scale up global carbon market'
The launch of a number of high-level preparatory meetings for the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in December marked the third ministerial meeting in the framework of the G8 Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development. Read more
European Council refuses to read UK a lesson
Replying to an official question from Member of Parliament Sajjad Karim (ALDE), the European Council is not willing to take any stand for or against more flexibility in the EU target of a 20% share of renewable energy in 2020. Read more
Sydney Declaration: support for UNFCCC process
Last Saturday Pacific Rim leaders including the US, Russia and China decided to fight global warming. They signed up the Declaration on climate change, energy security and clean development, without any precedent.Read more
Asia/Pacific summit: drifting towards UN climate change negotiations
Australia, US, China and Russia, formerly known as skeptical participants of the Kyoto process, are now slowly drifting towards the UN negotiations. Read more
‘IEA not yet on a sustainable track’
A new IEA publication, Energy Use in the New Millennium, shows how changes in energy efficiency, economic structure, income, prices and fuel mix since 2000 have affected recent trends in energy use and CO2 emissions in IEA countries. Read more
OECD: Food or fuel, that's the question
The rush to energy crops threatens to cause food shortages and damage to biodiversity, while there are limited benefits, stresses OECD in its new study Biofuels: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? Read
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Editorial: Harmonisation: honourable or horrendous?
Again, cultures are clashing on the topic of harmonised support schemes for renewable energy. Some are seeing a harmonised system as the perfect way to stimulate renewable sources in a market-driven way, while others are suffering from cold feet, fearing the future of their own business. Read more
In Brief
- Grid procedures need harmonisation
- CDM Bazaar web-portal launched
- G8: energy efficiency tops the list
- New Guidelines for emission reduction calculation
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