ADB's 700 million dollar global warming fight fund
AFP - Fri Dec 4, 1:02 am ETThe Asian Development Bank said Friday it would invest 700 million dollars to help member countries adapt to climate change and develop renewable energy technologies.
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India Announces Plan to Slow Emissions
New York Times - Fri Dec 4, 12:55 am ETLeaders have refused to sign any pact that would inhibit the country’s growth, but India is considered especially vulnerable to the problems attributed to global warming.
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Hot water for the Twalas, hot debate at Copenhagen
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 12:51 am ETThe shopping list includes wind farms, seawalls and even real estate — new homelands for flooded-out islanders. And poor countries want to present the bill to the rich at next week's climate talks in Copenhagen.
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Pentagon's 25M Acres Could Ease Renewables Siting Debate
New York Times - Thu Dec 3, 3:42 pm ETThe United States military is poised to become a significant player in the emerging renewable energy economy by providi...
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Clean Energy May Hire Nomura for 2010 IPO, Double Wind Capacity
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 1:40 am ETDec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Clean Energy Factory Co. , Japan’s fourth-biggest wind-farm operator, said it is in talks to hire Nomura Holdings Inc. to manage an initial share sale in late 2010 to help fund a plan to double capacity in five years.
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Carbon Capitalists Warming to Climate Market Using Derivatives
Bloomberg - 1 hour 31 minutes agoDec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Across Uganda, thousands of women warm supper over new, $8 orange-painted stoves . The clay-and- metal pots burn about two-thirds the charcoal of the open-fire cooking typical of East Africa , where forests are being chopped down in the struggle to feed the region’s 125 million people.
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Transcript: Green Revolution
Forbes - Thu Dec 3, 6:06 pm ETGreenpeace executive director Phil Radford wants environmental organizations to return to their grassroots.
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A green revolution would offer twofold benefits, Obama says
Washington Post - Thu Dec 3, 5:15 pm ETPresident Obama on Thursday highlighted renewable energy and green technology as the nation's "best candidate" for moving away from employment bubbles like the ones that have caused so much havoc on the nation's economy.
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IRS to auction land on Indian reservation
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 5:00 pm ETThe Internal Revenue Service plans to auction land on one of America's poorest Indian reservations, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit which seeks to block the sale.
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India Offer to Curb Emission Intensity May Help Talks (Update1)
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 3:51 am ETDec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- India’s offer to voluntarily reduce the amount of carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product after numerical pledges from the U.S. and China may move the climate-change talks ahead.
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PG&E to operate wind-energy plant in Kern County
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 4:38 pm ETPacific Gas and Electric Co. has signed a contract to buy and operate a wind-energy project that would produce enough electricity for about 100,000 California homes.
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Setting A Higher Bar For Climate Change
Forbes - Thu Dec 3, 3:22 pm ETCorporations should examine their own energy use. Dell already has.
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Longyuan Said to Raise $2.3 Billion in Wind Power IPO (Update1)
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 1:55 am ETDec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- China Longyuan Power Group Corp. , the nation’s largest wind-power producer, raised HK$17.5 billion ($2.26 billion) in the world’s third-biggest initial public offering by an alternative energy company.
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Pioneering solar-powered plane makes airborne hop
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 2:37 pm ETThe prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said.
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Wind Projects Don't Hurt Neighbors' Property Values -- Study
New York Times - Thu Dec 3, 1:57 pm ETProximity to a wind power project does not generally hurt property values, according to a new report that seeks to settle a l...
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Taiwan Aims to Fit 100,000 Roofs on Island With Solar Panels
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 4, 12:26 am ETDec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan aims to fit solar panels on 100,000 roofs as a new pricing structure for renewable energy helps ensure profits for builders, a government official said.
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