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• Rocky Year for Coal Industry: 26 Power Plant Plans Shelved in 2009

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  Despite a lack of substantive action on climate change in Copenhagen or, yet, in Washington, environmental groups are celebrating a year of victories over one of climate change’s biggest culprits. Coal releases more carbon dioxide emissions per unit of energy produced than any other fossil fuel, but it also ...
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• Google, Cisco Offer Answers to REDDs Verification Question

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  The international climate talks have repeatedly bogged down in disputes over transparency and verification, but on one issue, technology is offering a solution. New forest monitoring technology from tech giants Google and Cisco is starting to come online, allowing detailed tracking of land-use changes, particularly ...
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• Congress Asks NOAA to Study Setting Up National Climate Service

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  Among the climate change research programs and clean energy initiatives in the spending bill just approved by the U.S. Senate are provisions to determine how best to create a National Climate Service that could act as a clearinghouse for climate information and forecasts. The idea of an NCS has been discussed for a ...
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• In Letter to Obama, Leading US Businesses Call for Leadership at Copenhagen

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  More than two dozen of the United States most prominent manufacturers, utilities and technology companies sent a letter to President Obama today urging the newly minted Nobel laureate to take a leadership role when he arrives in Copenhagen on Friday and secure a robust international climate agreement. "This ...
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• The way to grow productivity

  
  Yankee Group Blog — Authority: 120
  With the global recession sending not just companies but public-sector budgets into massive decline, lots of pols want to know what to do to help the major growth engines in their regions spin back up. My home state is no exception; the meltdown in Massachusetts tax revenues caused a gap of at least $600M in the ...
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• Tech Transfer Stymied by Lack of Climate Funding from Rich

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  Reporting from Copenhagen Deploying low-carbon technology in all nations is considered vital to slowing global warming, but little progress has been made so far at the Copenhagen climate talks on "technology transfer" deals that could bring high-tech to the poor. A lack of climate funding commitments by the rich ...
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• Investors Ready to Fight Climate Change, But Government Policies Arent Helping

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  The hallways at the international climate summit at Copenhagen are crawling with big private investors who are ready to open their wallets to solve the climate crisis. And there are plenty of folks trying to get their attention — among those, 13-year-old Litha Maqungo of Capetown, South Africa. "Climate change ...
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• China’s Entrepreneurs Are Ready, But Is Their Government?

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  Reporting from Copenhagen It is a human rights issue. It is a development issue. It is more than only an environment issue. This is China’s view of climate change, as explained by He Yafei, China’s Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. One phrase that has been reiterated uniformly from the Chinese and the G77 is ...
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• The Next Technology Boom: Why Innovation Will Blast Us Out of the Recession

  
  Investment U — Authority: 546
  The Next Technology Boom: Why Innovation Will Blast Us Out of the Recession This analysis is by Sheena Martin , Contributing Editor, Investment U Friday, December 11, 2009 As I mentioned briefly in this column a couple of days ago, the next technology boom is upon us. It’s one borne out of the shift to ...
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• Study: Carbon Cap Has Little Impact on Small Businesses

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  A new report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists suggests that fears about a negative impact on small businesses from a carbon cap have been largely overblown. The report focuses on the likely impacts of California’s Global Warming Solution Act ( AB 32 ), but it holds lessons for federal climate ...
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• Survey: 41% of employees steal corporate data

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Quick — what’s the biggest threat to your company’s sensitive data? Hint: It’s not foreign hackers. It’s the company’s employees. Over 41% of office workers have downloaded sensitive data from their employers. That the conclusion of a survey of 600 financial sector employees from New York and London. ...
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• Steelworkers Leader: Get Ahead of the Clean Energy Curve or US Will Miss Its Shot

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  By Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers, and Michael Peck of Gamesa Once, when asked why he was so good, hockey icon Wayne Gretzky replied, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” The world is skating toward multiple clean sources of energy in a carbon-free future. The ...
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• Climate Science 101: Holdren, Lubcheco Take Congress Back to School

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  Members of Congress took a brief trip back to high school science class Wednesday morning, complete with science experiments, sports analogies, raised voices and a bit of name-calling. The hearing in Chairman Ed Markey’s Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming was expected to provide an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate Science 101: Holdren, Lubchenco Take Congress Back to School

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  Members of Congress took a brief trip back to high school science class Wednesday morning, complete with science experiments, sports analogies, raised voices and a bit of name-calling. The hearing in Chairman Ed Markey’s Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming was expected to provide an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Biofuels: Hope or Hype?

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicated this week that it is leaning toward increasing the biofuel "blend wall," the amount of ethanol allowed to be added to gasoline. Its still running tests, and it delayed a final decision until summer, but the agency said Tuesday that initial data indicate newer ...
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• Canadian Fund Warns of Sticky Risks in Tar Sands Investment

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  Alberta’s sprawling tar sands region holds the second largest oil reserve in the world after Saudi Arabia, but investors lured by the promise of black gold should think twice about the environmental risks, a Canadian investment fund warns. In a new report, Northwest & Ethical Investments LP describes how ...
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• Top Financiers, Business Leaders Look Into Clean Techs Crystal Ball

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  The UK’s top clean tech financiers and business moguls see a strong future for renewable energy and smart grid technology, but they also recognize investment risks on the road — and an important role for government. At a clean tech summit last week, Nicholas Parker of the Cleantech Group, David Blood of ...
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• Tech IPO comeback: $50 billion in 2010?

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: JPMorgan Chase (JPM) , Goldman Sachs Group (GS) , Morgan Stanley (MS) , Texas Instruments (TXN) , Barclays plc ADS (BCS) Tech sector IPOs surged by a factor of five in terms of value from 2008 to 2009. A mere $749.2 million raised in 2008 jumped to $3.8 million so far this year, according to ...
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• Clean Tech Jobs Spring Up as Investment Pours in and Factories are Transformed

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 652
  Despite economic uncertainty, the biggest global corporations are investing 3-5 percent of annual revenues in clean tech solutions, and they are poised to invest more, according to an Ernst & Young survey . With such private investment increasing and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA) infusion ...
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