Investment in energy efficiency helps companies boost their profits, lower costs and cut carbon emissions, as the same level of performance can be achieved from a lower level of energy use. Energy efficiency is also the best and quickest way to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions — 38 percent of all carbon emissions in America come [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
Standard Chartered Bank: Sustainable Finance
The environmental, economic and social costs of climate change are well known. Their impacts are becoming increasingly evident, especially in those countries that have limited capacity to mitigate against, and adapt to, the key risks associated with climate change.
At Standard Chartered we recognise that as a leading international bank we have an exceptional ability and [...]
Pushing technological limits: Around the world in a solar airplane
In 1999, Bertrand Piccard — Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut – completed the first non-stop circumnavigation of the Earth in an air balloon. Right after this feat was born his idea for the Solar Impulse project: to create an aircraft that will fly day and night propelled only by solar energy. No fuel, no pollution.
Never before [...]
Some of the best online sources to follow COP15:
As COP15 kicks off, the internet is overwhelmed with information, opinion and analysis of this summit. Here are our best recommendations online to stay updated with the most important climate summit for 2009:
COP15 has a two main blogs, both worth keeping tab on as they are updated regularly by experts and people actually at the [...]
