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Tepco can't yet be trusted to restart world's biggest nuclear plant: governor

...the utility developed a culture of "institutionalized lying." He said that unless the utility changes its corporate culture he won't be able to trust it to run the nuclear plant in the prefecture. "Th...

30 Oct 2013

Tepco can't yet be trusted to restart world's biggest nuclear plant: governor

News / Energy

Pakistan to pull solar energy into national power grid

...trar at the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority, said consumers who intend to sell solar-generated electric power to a distribution company would need to register with his authority. "Net-met...

7 Jan 2015

Pakistan to pull solar energy into national power grid

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?

...tide sported T-shirts and banners quoting the then president: "Randevou bo tab la", or "Let's meet together at the table". Aristide's invitation was clear: everyone needed to come to the table to meet...

15 May 2014

Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?

News / Energy

Scientists beef up energy potential

...t at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, when electric current was transmitted wirelessly across a two-metre space. The technology remains – for the time being at least − costly...

14 May 2014

Scientists beef up energy potential

News / Policy & Finance

Climate Parliament recommends policy integration for renewable energy development to PM

...t to encourage private sector investment in this sector and additional central assistance to such states that constantly add renewable energy to the grid. The report has in it—how the planning commiss...

28 Jan 2014

Climate Parliament recommends policy integration for renewable energy development to PM

News / Energy

Smarter software for a cleaner Asia

...tput in relation to its capacity. Grid operators have also been "historically very conservative" in how they operate their grids due to a lack of visibility into exactly how close to the network limit...

21 Apr 2015

Smarter software for a cleaner Asia

News / Carbon & Climate

India’s air quality among five worst

...there was a lot of anxiety among Delhi Pollution Control Committee scientists after a media report suggested that Delhi was ranked the world's most polluted city in the survey. Scientists who went thr...

30 Jan 2014

India’s air quality among five worst

News / Energy

Shell resumes Arctic drilling but cuts $15bn from global investment

...tment], Shell hasn't taken the opportunity to cut its most high-cost high-risk project. "Shell is taking a massive risk doggedly chasing oil in the Arctic, not just with shareholder value, but with th...

30 Jan 2015

Shell resumes Arctic drilling but cuts $15bn from global investment

News / Carbon & Climate

Reducing deforestation is good for business, argues report

...t potential material impacts on business operations and corporate strategy," Woolfe wrote in the report. "As long-term investors, climate-related effects will structurally and systematically affect th...

13 Nov 2014

Reducing deforestation is good for business, argues report

News / Policy & Finance

Ecologists cheer Modi's 'zero defect, zero effect' slogan

...t". He said, "Government alone cannot do this. It should be a people's movement. We have to tell the people that both development and environment protection can go together if we adopt the right appro...

18 Aug 2014

Ecologists cheer Modi's 'zero defect, zero effect' slogan

News / Policy & Finance

China ‘for the first time admits' trading in tiger skin

...this report, the Chinese delegate intervened and it was then when this admission came. "It was the first time they admitted officially that this trade exists in China." It is estimated that about 1,60...

11 Jul 2014

China ‘for the first time admits' trading in tiger skin

News / Carbon & Climate

APP boosting timber productivity to support zero deforestation policy

...truction in South Sumatra without having to pulp natural forests, argues a new report that also finds the forestry giant is successfully improving yields to support its zero deforestation commitment. ...

27 Nov 2014

APP boosting timber productivity to support zero deforestation policy

News / Food & Agriculture

China needs to import more food to ease water, energy shortages: official

...the northwest, shortages threaten to hold back ambitious plans to develop the coal reserves, either by producing synthetic natural gas or delivering power to eastern coastal markets through long-dista...

29 Jul 2014

China needs to import more food to ease water, energy shortages: official

News / Energy

China's nuclear power to hit 40 mln kw by 2015

...tly has 17 nuclear power units running with a total installed capacity of 14 million kw. Ye estimated that, if the country has 60 million kw of nuclear power capacity in 2020, it will reduce the emiss...

7 Apr 2014

China's nuclear power to hit 40 mln kw by 2015

News / Waste

China finds waste is a terrible thing to waste

...that weren't offering the right quality of recycling materials had to adjust their processing method to achieve the right quality," Delacoux says. When the program first started, it hit the Chinese re...

19 Jan 2015

China finds waste is a terrible thing to waste

Press Releases / EarthCheck

Mexico's Riviera Nayarit, joins EarthCheck sustainable leaders program

...tains just ten minutes north of accessible Puerto Vallarta International Airport. The region extends along the entire coast of the Pacific state of Nayarit including the resorts of Nuevo Vallarta, the...

15 Sep 2014

Mexico's Riviera Nayarit, joins EarthCheck sustainable leaders program

News / Carbon & Climate

Ocean algae can evolve fast to tackle climate change: study

...te that many voters believe that natural variations are to blame. The mismatch between scientific and public opinion complicates a plan by almost 200 governments to work out a deal to limit global war...

15 Sep 2014

Ocean algae can evolve fast to tackle climate change: study

News / Energy

China helps Pakistan build world’s largest solar farm

...the security arrangements of the entire QASP area. “Through this project the government also wants to send out the message to the outside world that it has the capacity to undertake mega projects and ...

9 Sep 2015

China helps Pakistan build world’s largest solar farm

News / Waste

Local residents angry at proposals to dump metropolitan waste in landfill sites near rural towns

...t too far from Perth to transport the waste." No effective waste management strategy in place for Perth One thing all parties seem to agree on is that there is not an effective waste management strate...

23 Oct 2013

Local residents angry at proposals to dump metropolitan waste in landfill sites near rural towns

News / Energy

Pakistan tax on solar imports threatens clean energy push - experts

...to his company rather than to importers. "If the government retains the taxes on the import (of solar equipment), businessmen will automatically start setting up their manufacturing plants in Pakistan...

17 Nov 2014

Pakistan tax on solar imports threatens clean energy push - experts

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