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Wind energy is 'good business' for banks – BayernLB
07 June 2012The banking sector sees the wind energy industry as good business, but should perhaps express its support for the industry more forcefully, according to one banker.
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UN chief 'cautiously optimistic' on Rio+20 agreement
06 June 2012Difficult negotiations in the run up to the UN's sustainable development summit are not unusual, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is "cautiously optimistic" of agreement being reached in Rio de Janeiro later this month.
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On the right course
06 June 2012Mark Nicholls finds optimism and evolving thinking in the results of Environmental Finance's first survey of sustainability issues in postgraduate education
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A solar survivor
06 June 2012For Jigar Shah, who has spent his entire career in clean energy, the solar sector's latest travails represent merely a bump in the road. He talks to Gloria Gonzalez
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OPIC's clean energy export drive
06 June 2012The Overseas Private Investment Corporation's clean energy division has flourished over the past few years. Lynn Tabernacki, its managing director of renewables and clean energy, talks to Gloria Gonzalez
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Five companies partner on plant-based plastic
06 June 2012Coca-Cola, Ford, Heinz, Nike and Procter & Gamble have announced a partnership to develop and use 100% plant-based plastic in their products.
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US wind industry eyes alternative markets
06 June 2012US wind turbine manufacturers are looking to other North and South American markets, to protect them if Congress fails to extend the production tax credit (PTC) for wind.
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Flexibility on pollution controls could save utilities $100bn – EPRI
06 June 2012The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could save the electric utility industry about $100 billion by giving utilities flexibility in installing new pollution control technologies to comply with its current and pending regulations, according to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
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US wind sector confident on tax credit extension
06 June 2012The extension of the production tax credit (PTC) for US wind energy generation is likely, industry experts said, partly because it does not rely on federal appropriation. However, the timing of the extension remains highly uncertain.
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Companies failing to manage, disclose physical climate risks – investors, NGOs
01 June 2012Companies must improve their analysis and management of the physical risks that climate change poses to their operations and supply chains – and a new tool created by advocates of enhanced disclosure aims to help them do just that.