10 days before the start of the Copenhagen climate negotiations the outcome seems slightly more open than a few weeks ago.
·      The scientific community has just in time presented new evidence about the extremely risky acceleration of climate change, thereby putting negotiators under heavy pressure to come to substantive agreement now, rather than [...]

For the first time ever, Korea has announced green house emission targets. On November 17th President Lee has proudly announced that his country is willing to reduce its emissions by 4 percent below 2005 levels. He has called this a historic decision and a paradigm shift for Korea becoming an advanced country. From a European [...]

In its 2009 World Energy Outlook the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned of rising oil prices having a negative impact impacting on the global economy in the coming years.. According to the IEA the dramatic rise of oil prices to almost $ 150 /b in mid-2008 has been one causes of the global recession.The [...]

The EU Commission has just published its economic outlook for 2010/2011.It is a sobering document. The economic situation in 2010 is expected to stabilise, after a 4 percent GDP decline in 2009, the deepest Europe has ever experienced since the end of WW II.
Europe, except the new member states, must learn to get used to [...]

The answer is: yes, though wind power is still far ahead. It  will therefore take 20 years or more before the globally installed solar capacity will exceed that of wind power.
At the end of 2008, the global capacity of wind energy exceeded 100 GW, about half of which installed in Western and Northern Europe, the [...]

The generation of electricity has traditionally been in the hands of municipalities, in Europe, or small private companies, in the USA.
This business model belongs to the past. In the future power generation – and separately transmission – will be concentrated in the hands of big transnational companies operating globally.
European companies have been the front-runners. As [...]

PM Gordon Brown has decided to add climate change to the already overcharged agenda of the G 20 summit meeting in London April 2nd.
That is a wise and courageous decision considering the poor state of preparation of the International Climate Conference to be held in December in Copenhagen.
Indeed, the G 20 countries account for some [...]

France and Italy have signed an agreement on closer cooperation in the nuclear field. It will allow Italy to benefit from long French experience and accelerate its return to nuclear power generation after Chernobyl in 1986.
But it will take until 2020, before any of the new reactors planned to be built jointly with EDF will [...]

 
Throughout the last 15 years, Alan Greenspan, the once illustrious FED Chairman, had indulged in an irresponsible deregulation of the American banking system, ignoring occasional warnings from subaltern officials. He had full trust in the self-regulating capacity of Wall Street and could fully rely on the backing of US Presidents, in particular G.W. Bush. 
Today, we [...]

The new US approach on climate policy has led American oil and energy companies to redefine their positions. Realising that it is no longer possible to block any action aiming at reducing C02 emissions they now accept working with the Administration with the objective of obtaining the most business-friendly solutions.
Their main concern is, of course, [...]