Global carbon prices and wind power growth

Global carbon prices and wind power growth

If Australia puts a price on carbon – tax or trading – we are not going it alone. The Climate Institute commissioned Vivid Economics to look at electricity in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.It compared clean...
6.6 trillion USD

6.6 trillion USD

Hot on the heels of the Carbon Disclosure Project’s 2010 report the United Nations has just released its global environmental damage assessment. At a staggering $ 6.6 trillion – equivalent to 11% of global GDP for damage caused by human activity in 2008...
64 trillion reasons to act

64 trillion reasons to act

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) reports are now out. On behalf of 534 institutional investors, holding $64 trillion in assets under management, this is the 8th year CDP has reported. From just 235 organisations in 2003, 2,500 now measure and disclose greenhouse...
Bloom Box Blue Gen and fuel cells

Bloom Box Blue Gen and fuel cells

Earlier this week 60 Minutes showed Bloom Energy’s Bloom Box and the topic trended #1 on google. It’s quite a result – a high level of interest in new technical ways of generating electricity and power.Fuel cells have great potential. This 3000...

Jeremy Rifkin on “the empathic civilization”

One of the most frequent concerns about environmental sustainability – going green – is that people will only act to maximise self-interest. There’s a body of evidence that this is not the case (links below) and Jeremy Rifkin, in this short 10 minute...