The value of the world’s carbon markets declined by 21 percent over the last quarter, despite trading volumes above the historical average, according to analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Global carbon […]
Deloitte Outlines Process for Choosing Env. Metrics
Public and private companies are finding it a major challenge to determine what environmental, social and governance (ESG) information to disclose, according to a new report from Deloitte. According to the report, […]
Beekeepers to EPA: We’re running out of time
Beekeepers have been concerned that pesticides are to blame for the bee die-offs devastating their industry for a while now. As we reported recently, their losses have spiraled out of control, putting […]
A Clarion Call on the Food Supply
For anyone who thought the run-up in food prices in recent years was a fluke or a short-term blip, it might be time to reconsider. We have certainly seen intermittent price dips […]
Venture Capitalist Reveals Growth Areas for Water Investments
Yesterday I ran excerpts from an interview with venture capitalist David Henderson, managing director of XPV Capital in Toronto, about why he sees water as a strategic investment. Today he lays out […]
Global Oil Risks in the Early 21st Century
The Deepwater Horizon incident demonstrated that most of the oil left is deep offshore or in other locations difficult to reach. Moreover, to obtain the oil remaining in currently producing reservoirs requires […]
World Water Day: Trillions Needed in Investment
We’re nearly 20 years into celebrating World Water Day, and the issues have only grown more complex — and in many locales, more serious. The theme of the United Nation’s World Water […]
Does cap-and-trade produce technological innovation?
Cap-and-trade is dead, but some folks never tire of kicking the corpse. Corpse kickers received a boost last week from a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
Air play: Could we capture carbon from the atmosphere?
Working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1990s, Klaus Lackner had numerous interests: the behavior of high explosives, nuclear fusion, and self-replicating machine systems. At some point, he turned his […]
Peak or Plateau Oil, Oil Prices and Economic Growth
There does seem to be a supply shortage in the oil markets at present. Well, of course, obviously there is, that’s why the price has risen. We’re all entirely out of $80 […]
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