Speaking today to state treasurers, leading institutional investors and other investment community leaders at the 2008 United Nations Investor Summit on Climate Risk, Peter A. Darbee, Chairman, CEO and President of PG&E Corporation, stated firmly that global warming can be combated effectively with technologies available today, if private sector incentives are properly aligned with forward-looking public policies.
More than 40% of the world's oceans are heavily affected by human activities, and few if any areas remain untouched, according to the first global-scale study of human influence on marine ecosystems.
UCLA chemists report a major advance in reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science.
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have found that winter precipitation – such as rain and snow - became more intense in the UK during the last 100 years.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced that its historic General Office Building and Annex, located at 245 Market Street, San Francisco, has been awarded Gold-level LEED(R) certification for existing buildings (LEED-EB) by the U.S. Green Building Council.
More than 350 leaders in the renewable energy industry ranging from small business owners, venture capitalists, investors, associations and academics today called on Congress for the passage of the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and the Production Tax Credit (PTC) extensions prior to March 1, 2008.
More than 800 investors, entrepreneurs, industry influencers and corporate leaders at the forefront of the rapidly developing cleantech investment and business category from North American, Europe, the Gulf States and Asia will convene in San Francisco for Cleantech Forum(R) XVI, to be held at the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel from February 25-27, 2008, the Cleantech Group(TM), LLC announced today.
Thomas Lovejoy, President of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture titled "Climate Change: Prospects for Nature," at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday, March 12, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.
WNS (Holdings) Limited, a leading provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced the launch of its Green Lean Sigma Program, a company-wide initiative to address energy conservation and reduction in impact of carbon emission. The program marks WNS’ first step towards realising its vision to be a carbon-neutral company.
Today, Alcoa is launching its advertising campaign on the large television networks of Québec. Beginning on this 11th of February, a new message will be aired for the first time, namely during the soaps Rumeurs on the CBC's French television network and Annie et ses hommes on the TVA network. The 60-second clip, called Aluminum is people (Echelle humaine), will be broadcast in French and in English until April 6, 2008.
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