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30 November 2011
Despite some quality issues, China now leads the world in the deployment of LED street lights, and the country’s next Five-Year Plan is expected to drive further advancements, writes Phil Jessup for LEDs Magazine.
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29 November 2011
Bloomberg, a member of The Climate Group, has launched a Sustainability section on Bloomberg.com, which will uncover what big businesses must do to thrive in a climate of growing global competition for resources, efficiency and innovation.
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29 November 2011
Member of The Climate Group, Cisco, is technology partner to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17), where it is providing a number of video conferencing services to delegates in a bid to curb COP17's carbon footprint.
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28 November 2011
Changhua Wu, The Climate Group’s Greater China Director, takes a look at China’s negotiating position ahead of this week’s Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa.
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28 November 2011
Aditi Dass, Director of Technologies India, The Climate Group, writes for the Economic Times on India's LED market which is on the tipping-point of acceleration.
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25 November 2011
Caroline Bayliss, Director, The Climate Group Australia, takes a look at the Australia negotiating position heading into COP17 in Durban next week, as part of a series of articles from our international policy staff looking at the position of key countries in the UN climate talks.
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25 November 2011
The Climate Group’s States and Regions Alliance, a large group of influential sub-national governments advocating global climate action, confirmed its official structure at its annual meeting, in a bid to forge ahead with Clean Revolution campaign plans.
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24 November 2011
Luc Bas, The Climate Group’s Director of European Programmes, examines the European Union’s negotiating position as it prepares for next week’s UN climate conference in Durban.
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23 November 2011
More than 325 signatures have been collected in The Climate Group supported 2°C Challenge Communiqué, which calls for national governments to break the current deadlock in international climate negotiations and drive the global Clean Revolution forward.
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23 November 2011
The Climate Group has won the Frost & Sullivan India LED Lighting Market Excellence Awards, for our lighting project in Kolkata, India, which has inspired LED scale-up across the country.
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23 November 2011
Ashirbad Raha and Aditi Dass, Consultants at The Climate Group’s New Delhi office, discusses the main issues behind India’s position heading into COP17.
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22 November 2011
COP17 takes place in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9, 2011. As part of our involvement in COP17, Damian Ryan our Senior Policy Manager, will be providing daily news and analysis, and live tweeting from Durban. This Pre-COP17 Briefing marks the start of his coverage.
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22 November 2011
Today Xie Zhenhua, Vice Chairman, National Development and Reform Commission, distributed a White Paper on China’s climate change policies which confirmed the country’s official position for COP17 in Durban.
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22 November 2011
Evan Juska, The Climate Group’s Head of US Policy, takes a look at the US negotiating position heading into COP17 in Durban next week. This is the first in a series of articles from our international policy staff looking at the position of key countries in the UN climate talks.
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22 November 2011
The Climate Group Australia has published a Clean Energy Plan briefing paper which provides an update to The Climate Group’s July 2011 Clean Energy Future Briefing Paper, covering how the scheme has changed since July 2011 as well as Australia’s key goals in the upcoming international negotiations at Durban COP17 and the Rio Earth Summit.
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21 November 2011
The Climate Group Greater China held a five-day Forum in Kashgar, China as part of the Low Carbon City Tour, to share the innovative low carbon initiatives and opportunities for growth at city level to government decision-makers, leading policy advisors and nationwide media.
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18 November 2011
The new Green Economy report from UN Environment Programme (UNEP) demonstrates that as COP17 and Rio+20 draw closer, world leaders are taking the transformational steps needed to achieve a prosperous, low carbon global economy.
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18 November 2011
We recently launched two new Blogs by two influential directors from The Climate Group, who will be sharing key clean energy and climate change action in China as well as an inside view of the progress of our three-year international campaign, The Clean Revolution.
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17 November 2011
The European Union, the United States and Japan approved an international agreement to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) today in Geneva. The Global Technical Regulation will reduce costs and boost efficiency in the EV industry.
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16 November 2011
This week a short case study report, China Low Carbon City Tour was published under The Climate Group Greater China’s China Redesign program, which reviews the status of implementation of the 12th Five Year Plan in China’s cities so far.
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11 November 2011
The Climate Group member HP has earned the #1 position in Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics, demonstrating pro-active leadership that is driving a Clean Revolution in the IT industry. Dell and Philips ranked second and fifth respectively, demonstrating a significant improvement in their ongoing commitment to greening IT.
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10 November 2011
On November 7, 2011, senior policy and business leaders from across the world gathered in Hong Kong for the Business Summit on Climate Leadership, to identify ways of capitalizing the low carbon business opportunities in the region.
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10 November 2011
In its latest World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warns that the world will head towards an unsustainable energy future without urgent government action.
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09 November 2011
Financing in China’s clean energy industry for 2011 is already up 124.95% up on last year's total investment, according to CV Source, a financial database of China Venture.
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08 November 2011
Global momentum for a price on carbon gathered pace overnight with the passage of the Clean Energy Futures package through the Australian Senate - clearing the final legislative hurdle for a carbon price in Australia.
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07 November 2011
Over 160 top business executives and government leaders from around the world discussed the emerging opportunities in the low carbon economy during the Business Summit on Climate Leadership 2011.
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06 November 2011
The Climate Group Greater China has published a briefing note based on Financing China’s Low Carbon Growth, our fourth annual China’s Clean Revolution report. Financing China’s Low Carbon Growth is the country's first comprehensive review of China's strategy to finance its low carbon economy.
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03 November 2011
The Climate Group has won the annual green NGO award in the Green Medal Award 2011 ’Green Love’ Environmental Series, which is organized by China Business Network, currently China's largest and widest financial media group.
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03 November 2011
Twenty global cities across four continents including Barcelona, Cape Town, Lagos, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco, join forces with Living Labs Global, Oracle, CityMart.com and The Climate Group to find innovative solutions that will improve the living standards of more than 100 million citizens, by launching the Living Labs Global Award.
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02 November 2011
The latest global Environmental Tracking Carbon Rankings have been published, shining the spotlight on the standards of public greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting across the world and revealing Europe as a global leader in carbon disclosure.
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01 November 2011
World-leading experts from Arup have helped shape a new report from the World Economic Forum, which highlights how energy efficient buildings can generate green jobs, create cleaner cities and potentially deliver a multi-billion dollar market.
