[Press release NZHerald by Owen Hembry, July 30th, 2011]
Former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry Sir Richard Lambert is visiting New Zealand to talk about climate change and earthquake recovery.
Lambert, here as a business ambassador for Britain, will tour Christchurch this weekend to see the scale of the earthquake damage and …
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British visitor sees bright outlook for ‘clean, green’ NZ
Nick Clegg unveils long-awaited details of green investment bank
By Fiona Harvey
guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 May 2011 12.36 BST
The UK’s green investment bank will be investing in UK low-carbon infrastructure projects within a year, and is expected to have assisted in injecting £15bn into the green economy within four years, Nick Clegg told a City of London audience on Monday.
Nick Clegg said the bank would become part of the …
Renewable energy largely untapped – report
By Isaac Davison [NZHERALD]
A landmark study shows that renewable energy such as solar and wind could power the world by 2050, but analysts say New Zealand’s government needs to show more will to tap into its cleaner sources.
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of the world’s top climate scientists overseen by …
U.N. climate agenda agreed, roadmap set for 2011
BANGKOK, April 8 (Reuters) – Rich and poor nations overcame deep divisions on Friday to cut a deal that maps out United Nations climate negotiations for 2011, building on last December’s agreement in Mexicoand hardening the focus on tougher issues.
The deal in Bangkok came after nearly four days of talks that some developing nations said were …
ET Water Bags $2M to Peddle Smart Water Gear
By Ucilia Wang
Entrepreneurs and investors have long pegged water as a commodity with a rising price tag and have started to look to technology for conserving water as the next big market. ET Water Systems hopes to ride this wave and announced Monday that it has raised $2 million for a new irrigation control and management technology.
ET …
Doubt stalls biofuels growth
by Hamish Rutherford
Biofuel producers say millions of dollars worth of investment is at risk because of uncertainty over whether the government will continue a subsidy programme beyond next year.
Greenstone Energy, which owns Shell’s retail and distribution network in New Zealand, revealed last week that it came close to investing millions of dollars in Ecodiesel, an …
UK government turns to low carbon economy amid oil price fears
The hike in oil prices to in excess of $100 per barrel following Middle Eastern unrest has transformed the economics of a low carbon market, according to UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne.
Analysts fear that sustained oil price increases will dim the economy further, as governments edging out of the economic downturn are …
Clean Air Act to result in $2 trillion in public savings – E.P.A.
By Jhoanna Frances S. Valdez
Compliance with the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments would result in $2 trillion in savings for the United States come 2020, a report released on Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency showed.
The report also showed that about 230,000 people can be saved from early death due to fine particle and ground level …
China minister warns pollution, waste imperil growth
By Reuters
BEIJING, February 28 (Reuters) – China faces acute environmental and resource strains that threaten to choke growth unless the world’s second-biggest economy cleans up, the nation’s environment minister said in an unusually blunt warning.
In an essay published on Monday, Zhou Shengxian also said his agency wants to make assessing projected greenhouse gas emissions a part …
