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Cutting Europe's €320m nitrogen pollution bill will benefit climate
14 April 2011A greater focus on the effects of nitrogen emissions could spur technologies that combat climate change, according to the author of report which estimates nitrogen pollution costs Europe as much as €320 million ($463 million) annually.
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BrightSource secures DOE loans, bags $168m from Google
14 April 2011US-based BrightSource Energy has finalised $1.6 billion in US government loan guarantees and secured a $168 million funding injection from Google.
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EU states 'over-confident' on bioenergy assumptions, say paper companies
13 April 2011Assumptions about the amount of energy that EU member states could obtain from forest biomass are overly optimistic, says the Confederation of Paper Industries (CEPI).
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On offshore wind, US developers look to Europe
13 April 2011US offshore wind developers and potential investors can learn a lot about financing these projects from their European counterparts, wind experts said.
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Tax break for US wind power to survive – but not cash grants
12 April 2011Wind energy advocates in the US are confident that the country's production tax credit (PTC) will be extended beyond its 2012 scheduled expiration, but they are pessimistic about the prospects for the cash grant programme.
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F&C appointed to run NEST ethical fund
12 April 2011The UK's recently launched national pension scheme, the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), has appointed F&C Asset Management to manage its ethical fund.
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EPA's budget, Senate reprieve seen as temporary
11 April 2011Environmental activists are cheering the second narrow escape for US federal efforts to tackle climate change in one week – but warn that the assault from Republicans is far from over.
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Debt flows to US's beleaguered wind sector
11 April 2011The debt market has fully recovered from the economic recession and is welcoming wind energy projects with open arms, but the tax equity market still has a long way to go to regain lost ground, wind energy experts said.
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Planning for low(er)-carbon prosperity
08 April 2011China's new Five-Year Plan is its first to include a target for the carbon intensity of the economy – but its energy and climate goals are more modest than many had hoped, with consolidation rather than revolution the order of the day. Joshua Speckman reports
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Ecosystem trading firm wins Shell backing
07 April 2011Ecosystem markets company Environment Bank has won funding from the Shell Foundation to establish habitat banking projects in south-east England and a trading system – ahead of the possible introduction of ecosystem banking legislation in the UK.