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UK launches investor forum to spur green finance Reuters … billion of new investment needed per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries, the department of energy and climate change said. … London eyes pole position with low carbon investment planPlatts London warned on green finance boomFinancial Times UK Government urges City of London to invest in low carbonEnergy Efficiency News ENDS Europe (subscription) -San Francisco Chronicle all 25 news articles »

Climate Movement at the Crossroads It’s Getting Hot In Here (blog) We must therefore put more emphasis on alternative forums like the Clean Energy Ministerial and Major Economies Forum on Energy & Climate. … Street theater “education”American Daily Weekly Climate Change Update – September 7, 2010Mondaq News Alerts (registration) all 6 news articles »

The greenest government ever? Only if the Treasury can be tamed The Guardian At the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Lib Dem minister, Chris Huhne, has made a good start. He has committed to a strong European emissions … and more »

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Wonkbook: Stimulus reax; Mitch Daniels' plan; Obamas opposes tax cut extension Washington Post (blog) And in the end, they essentially met all of the president's major goals — the one major exception being energy and climate legislation. … Cutting tax breaks may pay for stimulusMarketplace (blog) Why Obama Doesn't Need to Woo Big BusinessU.S. News & World Report (blog) Rep. Blumenauer Responds to Obama's Infrastructure Proposals [Guest Post]The Infrastructurist all 6,305 news articles »

Congressional Candidates' Views on Clean Energy, Climate Change: FL-24 Firedoglake (blog) In reality, of course, a comprehensive clean energy and climate bill would create a lot of jobs and cost households very little, so Sandy Adams is simply … and more »

Energy and Climate Change Committee Holds First Oral Evidence Session Mondaq News Alerts (registration) The Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee yesterday held the first oral evidence session of its "UK Deepwater Drilling – Implications of the Gulf of …

Kicking Off a Global Work Party to Tackle Climate Change Reuters … to your event (I hear there might be an election coming up this November in the US) and ask them to pledge to support clean energy and climate action. …

Addressing Climate Change: In Clean Energy We Trust Huffington Post (blog) Doing so means switching from the sickening, climate-changing combustion of fossil fuels to clean renewable sources of energy, and practicing energy … and more »

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Why did Barack Obama do health care first? Washington Post (blog) Joe Romm says that “future generations are likely to view Obama's choice of health care over energy and climate legislation as a blunder of historic … Obama and Climate ChangeMother Jones all 3 news articles »

Scotland to align green energy laws with England Reuters … is aimed at bringing renewable incentives in line with regulation implemented by the national government's Department of Energy and Climate Change. … and more »

… energy demand, pollution and emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases … the state-run newspaper Shanghai Securities News said. It said the curbs hit as steelmakers were preparing for a peak production …

San Francisco investment banker Thomas Steyer said in a letter to Valero Energy … Valero, based in San Antonio, has spent $4 million so far in support of Proposition 23, which would suspend the law until the state …

Part of the Bay Area News Group … SANTA CRUZ — The conversation about making Santa Cruz a more energy … looked to the community for advice on how to make a proposed “climate …

… Energy and Climate Change is keeping secrets that the UK is much more concerned about supply … Rubin pointed to frequent news stories on discoveries of major oil reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere,

Southern Energy Management, Stephen Irvin, Namaste Solar and David Murphy, Better World Books to debate whether treating employees well is merely a nicety or a necessity for healthy business. SJF Summit sponsors …

… are honored to have Vice Mayor Davis join the ICLEI USA Board of Directors and benefit from the energy, passion and commitment she has demonstrated in combating the impact of climate change in Cambridge,” said …

Get science news via … for important decisions regarding water management, agriculture, and energy. “Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate …

There may be better ways to engineer the planet’s climate … a director in the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy and a Schulich School of Engineering professor. Keith, a global leader in …

… centuries-long saga of global warming into the cycle of breaking news … reporting on climate change as if it were a sports event. Some of the recent coverage of the Senate’s failure to take up clean energy …

will address current policy initiatives that drive investment in the clean energy sector at the federal level.  Dan Reicher , Director of Climate Change and Environmental Initiatives at Google, will offer a …

Tom Young in Sydney, BusinessGreen , Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 10:38:00 Australian Prime Minister could ditch emissions trading plans in favour of alternative mechanism for pricing carbon Australia’s new prime minister Julia Gillard has signalled for the first time that she will move away from her predecessor’s climate change policy and find a new way of pricing carbon emissions across the …

It is hard to communicate a sense of urgency when you are writing about ice melting. I get the sense that some journalists handle this dilemma by reporting on climate change as if it were a sports event.

Microbicide gels that prevent HIV hindered by lack of funding The first vaginal microbicide gel that significantly reduces a woman’s risk of HIV , announced in July, is struggling to get enough funding for the follow-up research necessary to get it to women in need.

Domestic heat pumps need to be subject to tighter regulations in order for them to deliver widespread energy savings, a report suggests.

Chinese steel mills and mobile phone factories are being idled and thousands of homes in one area are doing without electricity as local governments order power cuts to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing.

News from China’s main financial district in Shanghai.

Homes, large businesses go without power as local governments try to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing

Dear EarthTalk: Is there any way to harness volcanic energy to meet our electricity and other power needs? — Antonio Lopez , Chino, Calif. The short answer is yes: Heat generated by underground volcanic activity can and has been harnessed for electricity for over 100 years around the world.

The week in science.

(PhysOrg.com) — A wave energy generation test site called the “Wave Hub” is being set up off Cornwall`s northern coast. The site is the first offshore wave energy site in the UK, and will allow four wave energy generator systems, with a total capacity of 20 MW, to be evaluated simultaneously.

Domestic heat pumps need to be subject to tighter regulations in order for them to deliver widespread energy savings, a report suggests.

Dear EarthTalk: Is there any way to harness volcanic energy to meet our electricity and other power needs? — Antonio Lopez , Chino, Calif. The short answer is yes: Heat generated by underground volcanic activity can and has been harnessed for electricity for over 100 years around the world.

Chinese steel mills and mobile phone factories are being idled and thousands of homes in one area are doing without electricity as local governments order power cuts to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing.

It is hard to communicate a sense of urgency when you are writing about ice melting. I get the sense that some journalists handle this dilemma by reporting on climate change as if it were a sports event.

News from China’s main financial district in Shanghai.

The committee would “review the company’s corporate policies, above and beyond matters of legal compliance, in order to assess, and make recommendations to enhance, the company’s policy responses to changing conditions and knowledge of the natural environment, including but not limited to, natural resource limitations, energy use, waste disposal, and climate change,” according to the proposal.

Microbicide gels that prevent HIV hindered by lack of funding The first vaginal microbicide gel that significantly reduces a woman’s risk of HIV , announced in July, is struggling to get enough funding for the follow-up research necessary to get it to women in need.

The week in science.

( University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science ) Operational forecasting centers produce climate predictions that provide input for important decisions regarding water management, agriculture, and energy. Published today, “Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability,” a report from the National Research Council/NAS, examines current …

Homes, large businesses go without power as local governments try to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing

MONTREAL 2010 – ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER FOR THIS VERY IMPORTANT EVENT 300 HIGH-CALIBRE SPEAKERS AND 4,000 PARTICIPANTS WILL GATHER IN MONTREAL SEPTEMBER 12 TO 14 MONTREAL , Sept.

Renewable Energy Magazine: Latest news – your source for renewable energy news solar, wind, biomass, biofuel, hydro, CO2, solar thermal, hydro power, climate change, carbon trading.. The presentation will cover PV supply and demand, price and technology, and forecasts for Full Story A Topics: SEMA

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Sep. 08 /CSRwire/ – Withheld Report Requested and Funded By Congress Shows: Managing water and energy separately will not meet US growing energy demand; New power plants are planned without considering water availability; National policy encouraging large scale biofuels production will stress U.S. water supplies.

Despite all of Nvidia’s talk in recent years about the potential for GPUs in supercomputing, when the Top 500 supercomputer list came out last November, it was rival AMD that made the list with a Chinese supercomputer called Milky Way , which used a combination of Intel Xeons along with 2560 ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards to build the first petaflop …

The sessions of the World Energy Congress – Montreal 2010 will open in just a few days.

A species of seahorse unique to the waters of the Gulf Coast could face extinction because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, warns marine conservation organization Project Seahorse.

Months back, a leading British newspaper started a campaign against the Indian scientist Dr R K Pachauri, but it came down with an apology from the UK-based paper again.

The Energy Department said Tuesday it was awarding $575 million for carbon capture research-and-development projects in 15 states.

Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Dan Coats announced his “Energy Solutions for Hoosiers” proposal Tuesday as part of his plan for economic growth and job creation during a tour of the Poet Biorefining ethanol plant just outside of Alexandria.

The forum is co-organized by the Academy of European management and EVRA International, Inc.

Boulder-based Eltron Research and Development Inc. on Tuesday received a $71.3 million federal grant to speed commercial development of technology to produce usable hydrogen gas from coal gas.

Domestic heat pumps need to be subject to tighter regulations in order for them to deliver widespread energy savings, a report has concluded.

Renewable Energy Magazine: RSS – your source for renewable energy news solar, wind, biomass, biofuel, hydro, CO2, solar thermal, hydro power, climate change, carbon trading.. The presentation will cover PV supply and demand, price and technology, and forecasts for the Full Story A Topics: SEMA

Boston-Power A Founder and CEO Dr. Christina Lampe-A-nnerud , a 2010 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer , will join business and thought-leaders from around the world at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions – ” “Summer Davos,” to be held September 13-15 in Tianjin, China.

The Energy Department said Tuesday it was awarding $575 million for carbon capture research-and-development projects in 15 states.

A map shows where ECOtality plans to deploy charging stations. The Nissan Leaf, which is set to debut later this year and will be built in Smyrna starting in 2012, has a range of about 100 miles.

Sept. 7, 2010 10:58 p.m. Plugged In Energy writer Thomas Content keeps you current as you adapt to changes in the world of energy, climate change and efforts to build a greener economy.

MONTREAL 2010 – ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER FOR THIS VERY IMPORTANT EVENT PR Newswire MONTREAL, Sept.

CANTON:Urged on by the slogan ”We will remember in November,” about 400 energy advocates put Washington on notice Tuesday that they won’t take kindly to politicians willing to sacrifice jobs for increased taxes on the oil and natural gas industry.

India Inc and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Wednesday said there should be more clarity and flexibility in the Clean Development Mechanism – for carbon trading.

Bill Weihl / Official Google Blog:
Is black the new green?  —  Reducing climate change by saving energy is an important effort we should all join, and that’s why we’re very glad to see the innovative thinking going into a variety of solutions.  One idea, suggested by the site called “Blackle” (which is not related to Google …

David Filo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Serving up greener data centers  —  This morning, at a press conference in Buffalo, New York, with New York Governor David Paterson and Senator Chuck Schumer, we took another big step forward in addressing climate change.  We announced plans to build one of the greenest, most energy-efficient data centers in the world.

Oil chiefs insist that Britain’s oil rig safety regime in the North Sea does not need to be overhauled The UK head of Transocean, the operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, has clashed angrily with MPs in the first British hearing into what lessons can be learned from the disaster. …

http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2010/09/02/chinas-monopoly-on-17-key-elements-sets-stage-for-supply-crisis/ There should be an image here! China’s monopoly on the global supply of elements critical for production of computer hard disc drives, hybrid-electric cars, military weapons, and …

Reducing funding for household generation of renewable energy will jeopardise job creation and energy security, Huhne is told A coalition of green, countryside and housing groups has warned energy secretary Chris Huhne not to cut subsidies for green electricity …

2010 has already proven to be a volatile political year in the United States. Three sitting U.S. senators have been defeated in primary elections so far, and there are predictions of more upheaval to come when voters go the polls in congressional midterm elections in November. The latest political …

Australia’s new minority government must balance the economic benefits of a booming coal industry with an electorate calling for climate action West of Australia’s Great Dividing Range, a cluster of giant black gashes marks one of the country’s biggest coal mines. Latrobe valley’s pits and …

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) conceded her primary race Tuesday night. And despite the crowing from the enviro left and the climate-skeptic right, this is bad news. Covering energy issues, I&##x27;ve often disagreed with Murkowski and her staff, …

Yesterday, James Joyner noted Charlie Cook’s recent, and surprising revision to his predictions for the November elections. Today, the University of Virgina’s Larry Sabato joins him in forecasting what we may have to start calling a wave election: 2010 was always going to be a Republican year, …

An activist caravan to bring one of Jimmy Carter’s solar panels back to the White House symbolizes not only the time the U.S. has lost in developing new energy technologies – but also the urgent need for taking action on climate. As I write this piece, we’re in the midst of a (biodiesel) …

A zero-carbon heating initiative in Paris plans to harness hot air generated by underground travel to warm up nearby homes Warmth generated by sweaty passengers as they commute on the Paris Mètro may be used to heat a block of low-income flats located near the Pompidou Centre in the city centre. This …

Head of Transocean, which operated destroyed Deepwater Horizon oil rig, to be asked about safety and deepwater drilling British politicians will challenge the UK head of Transocean, the operator of the destroyed Deepwater Horizon rig, tomorrow over whether the Gulf of Mexico disaster could …

From http://passionforinspiration.com:” A new round of direct Mideast peace talks is underway in Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attended a working dinner at the White House, hosted by US President Barack Obama, along with …

Do the right thing, said Ed. I would myself, given half a chance • Going, going, gone. Yes, today’s the deadline for anyone who wishes to join the Labour party in order to vote in the leadership contest. Each of the competitors has staked out distinctive territory: Ed Balls, the bruiser; Burnham with …

Of the two leading candidates, the older brother will offer a more credible challenge to the coalition It is four months since British voters expelled Labour and Gordon Brown from power. Only last week did party members get their ballot papers for the election of a new leader. In May, the advantages …

The violence in Maputo is just the latest manifestation of the crippling shortcomings of the global economy It has been a summer of record temperatures – Japan had its hottest summer on record, as did South Florida and New York. Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded and …

Glenn Beck is a charlatan. A clown. A buffoon. He belongs on a second tier stage in Vegas, and he very well may end up there, some day. He is not dangerous, but his ability to exploit the legitimately angry dispossessed reveals something that is dangerous. Decades of right wing economic policies …

Deputy PM Nick Clegg offers only qualified backing for No 10′s director of communications, Andy Coulson, as Speaker grants debate on newspaper phone hacking The Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson is under renewed pressure as it was announced that MPs will hold an emergency Commons debate …

Hundreds of participants are expected to attend the Annual Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin from 13-15 September 2010. Driving growth through sustainability is fundamental for global, national and business competitiveness in the 21st century. This year’s programme will focus on how to increase …

Cold beats climate change protest – Scotsman.com News Greenpeace said freezing conditions and strong winds forced campaigners on board the Stena Don rig to abandon their protest action against the drilling plans of Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy….

Government’s chief environmental scientist says emissions have actually risen, rather than fallen, because of carbon in imported goods • West blamed for rapid increase in China’s CO2 The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have risen in the past two decades rather than declined, because of the carbon “embedded” …

http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2010/09/02/are-wolves-saving-yellowstones-aspen-trees-from-elk/ There should be an image here! Previous research has claimed that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 is helping restore quaking aspen in risky areas where wolves prowl. …