climate change

Get emissions policy right or kill businesses, Rudd warned - News.com.au

BIG business has given the Rudd Government a blunt warning that it could ruin the economy if it botches its climate-change response. And it is telling consumers that Australian electricity prices are too low, insisting that state-based caps on power ...

Global Clean-Energy Investment Rose 60% in 2007 (Update1) - Bloomberg

July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Wind, solar and biofuel companies received a record $148 billion in new funding last year as rising oil prices and climate-change rules encouraged investment in renewable energy, the United Nations Environment Program said. Wind ...

Political Roundup

India is doing more about climate change than we are. India, people! Oh, those tax and spend Democrats and those fiscally responsible Republicans. Waitaminnit: [ picture-1.png] Hmm. I know you gotta account for inflation, and look at the debt as a percent of GDP and blah blah blah… [ chart-us-budget.png]

Chances dim for climate-change legislation

An influential coalition of Fortune 500 companies and environmental groups that was formed to support climate-change legislation has splintered over the Lieberman-Warner bill that is headed next week to the Senate floor.

Chevron makes renewable investment

Environmental Leader, 8 May 2008. Climate change and clean energy news - the best green knowledge for business and investment.

ADB wants increased investment

Forbes, 6 May 2008. Climate change and clean energy news - the best green knowledge for business and investment.

Climate change needs money

Climate change needs money Associated Press, 20/04/2008 12:23 - (SA) Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday the fight against climate change needs massive new flows of private

Climate fight needs huge investment, Sarkozy says

PARIS (Apr 19, 2008) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the fight against climate change needs massive new amounts of private investment and globally regulated "green'' markets to succeed.

Spotlight on Your Portfolio: Carbon Footprinting Your Investment

While investment action doesn’t yet fully match this rhetoric, many major firms are establishing research shops focused on the investment implications of climate change. Some of the early (and quite excellent) work has been focused on ...

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