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Climate specialist Mark Proegler leaves BP
30 January 2014Mark Proegler has left BP, where he served as director of climate and transport energy policy since June 2009, to take a career break.
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Companies' efforts to tackle water risk are 'inadequate'
31 October 2013Companies increasingly recognise that threats to their water security pose a significant risk to their business, but their response to problem is often "inadequate and misguided", the latest CDP Global Water Report has warned.
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Call to financiers to fund emerging markets renewables revolution
28 October 2013Financiers need to help the renewables industry shift its focus from the "dying" Western subsidies market and embrace the "phenomenal revolution" in emerging markets, a conference heard.
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French cleantech fund makes first US investment
10 October 2013A young Paris-based venture capital firm specialising in clean energy and environmental technologies has bought an undisclosed stake in a Californian energy efficiency company.
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UK commits £1bn to low-carbon vehicle research
15 July 2013The government and the automotive industry in the UK have each agreed to invest £500 million ($755 million) over the next 10 years to develop and commercialise technologies for low-carbon vehicles.
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UK opens wheat-fuelled biorefinery, ahead of EU vote
10 July 2013The UK's largest biorefinery, officially opened on Tuesday, will produce 420 million litres of bioethanol – a third of the country's current need – when operating at full capacity, the owners said.