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A 15% national RPS by 2020 has passed the house. This is good news as it establish the principle that all consumers should pay their share of the renewable energy and creates a strong market driver for renewable energy technologies.

Agricultural ground shall be used for growing food, not for energy plants. There is, however, a hudge unexploited biomass potential for fuel production in organic products that can be recycled: all kind of organic wastes, from households, municipal wastes, sewage slurries, wood wastes from wood industry...

ExxonMobil has learned the European lesson: There is no need to worry for the profit in a cap and trade system - it is all about system design. The real fight will be between fuel suppliers and industrial consumers.  

Biofuel could be considered a mean to achieve CO2 reductions and decrease dependence of fossil fuels. But now it has turned into a goal of its own resulting in low energy efficiency and higher CO2 emissions than otherwise would be achieved. Biofuels has become an excuse for not considering unpopular...

Retired admirals and generals state that climate change is a security risk that should be treated seriously before it requires military actions. The report was published few days before George Bush presented his plan and left for Europe for negotiations in G8 where both climate change, the situation...

Guess who signed the Kyoto Protocol for Germany in 1997 and took a 21% CO2 reduction target  as its contribution to the EUs overall 8% target? She is chairing the G8 Summit, so George Bush had to bring something with him. Chancellor Angela Merkel has a professional background in physics and chemistry...

In the last few months the debate on climate change has shifted quickly in the US and the US Senate. A bill proposed by John McCain and Joseph Liebermann, and C-sponsored by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama pass the test to be more than just fine words. 1) It acknowledges the costs of reducing...

After Bill Gates & Richard Branson, Vinod Khosla and Steve Case, 2 best-known Internet entrepreneurs, plan to invest $2 billion fund with a group of investors (other private equity groups) that will focus on Brazil's ethanol industry. Brenco (company name) will set up this headquarter...

Stora Enso has signed an agreement with Neste Oil to join forces to develop technology for producing new-generation biofuels from wood residues. Stora Enso is an integrated paper, packaging and forest products company. Stora Enso Stora Enso made 14.6 billion euros of turn-over (2006) 16.5 million...

Cantor Fitzgerald is merging their US pollutant brokerage with their European CO2 brokerage into CantorCO2e as they see a US carbon trading market in the horizon. Also Morgan Stanley, Merril Lynch and other US based companies are active on the European emission trading market and are ready to participate...