SAN FRANCISCO – March 31, 2010 – The Cleantech Group™, founders of the cleantech sector and providers of leading global market research, events and advisory services for the cleantech ecosystem, along with Deloitte, which provides audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services to cleantech companies, today released preliminary 1Q 2010 results for clean technology venture …
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Global Water Scarcity: Risks and challenges for businesses
A new Lloyd’s 360 Risk Insight report says businesses must act now in the face of diminishing water supplies.
Businesses around the world must act now if they are to fend off the threat of a growing water shortage.
This stark warning comes from the latest Lloyd’s 360 Risk Insight report, ‘Global water scarcity’, which looks at …
Measuring the Green Economy
This report from the U.S. Commerce Department measures the size and economic impacts of green products and services.
The report looks at data from 2007 and finds that green jobs represented at the broadest sense 2 percent of the economy. Among the other findings of the report:
• The number of green jobs ranged from 1.8 million …
Student outrage at Kuwaiti pollution levels
By Omar Hasan
MAKTOOB NEWS
May 2, 2010
ALI SABAH AL-SALEM – Thousands of students began a two-day strike on Sunday in protest at high pollution levels caused by oil facilities in a remote residential area of southern Kuwait.
“The strike was total today. All 15,000 students stayed at home,” Ahmad al-Shuraian, head of the area’s environmental protection committee, told …
Finally, some horsepower getting behind NZ cleantech
One hundred percent
By Chris Tobias, a day ago
Originally published in Idealog #27, page 94
It’s 11:23pm and Les Mills tycoon Phillip Mills is still at work, running weary, sounding a bit hoarse and facing the first flight out to Europe the next day. No gym balls or yoga gear today, though—the maestro of health and fitness …
Clean tech potentially worth more than $5bn a year to NZ
Huge potential for New Zealand in the clean technology space:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10639905&pnum=3
Report: State of Green Business 2010
In its third annual edition of State of GreenBusiness report, GreenBiz.com continued to measure the environmental impacts of the emerging green economy. This year’s effort was characterised by the Great Recession and its myriad of impacts on individuals, companies, and governments around the world.
Carbon Intensity
Absolute greenhouse gas emissions have shrunk along with the momentum of …
