Canadian Solar company secures $17m

(ClimateRadar.com) Day4Energy, a Vancouver-based company has secured $17m to expand its production of solar panels. Day4 Energy has developed new PV technology that will significantly reduce the cost of PV to the end-user, making future technology a reality.
www.day4energy.com

LG to invest $2M in new Solar Company

(ClimateRadar.com) South Korean giant, LG, is planning to start a solar subsidsiary called LG Solar. It will invest $2m to start, with at further $5m to operate. “LG Corp. has made a decision to advance into the green and renewable energy sector, which has high growth potential, though detailed plans are not yet decided,” said [...]

Sanyo producing will produce €20m of solar panels

(ClimateRadar.com) According to SolarBuzz, the Japanese electronics giant, Sanyo, has agreed to cooperate in the financing and manufacturing of solar panels worth €20M/year with German based Wattner AG.
http://www.solarbuzz.com/news/NewsEUCO442.htm

Schroders launches new Climate Change Fund

(ClimateRadar.com) On September 28th, Schroders, a global asset managment company, will launch a global climate change fund. It will be managed by Simon Webber and Matthew Franklin, who already run a similar climate change fund for Asian investors. Although not launched, you can check this webcast about the reasons driving the fund.

http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/comm/Schroders/07b70c5534-3620-681-3231

Fleishman-Hillard becomes carbon neutral

(ClimateRadar.com) Fleishman-Hillard International Communications announced the creation of its worldwide Sustainability Communications practice. The practice is designed to counsel clients on policy and work with them to articulate views and actions on critical resource management issues such as fossil fuel consumption, water conservation, and CO2 emissions.
http://www.fleishman.com/point-of-view/News/pr091907.html

Businesses must support emissions reduction, top UN official says

(ClimateRadar.com) The private sector must support industrialized countries’ serious emission reduction commitments to curb climate change and maintain the momentum of the system of exchanging emissions on the ‘carbon market,’ the top United Nations climate change official said today.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23882&Cr=climate&Cr1=change 

Nine companies commit to carbon footprint products

 
(ClimateRadar.com) Following the carbon footsteps of Walkers Crisps and Innocent Drinks, nine more companies are joining the carbon labeling bandwagon and working with the Carbon Trust in labeling their products. Companies such as Coca-Cola, Cadbury Schweppes, have joined the cabron labeling scheme managed by The Carbon Trust.
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/about/presscentre/190907_Partner+announcement.htm 
http://www.carbon-label.co.uk/ 

Volvo opens first carbon neutral factory in Belgium

 
(ClimateRadar.com) Volvo has opened the first carbon neutral truck company in the world.
http://www.volvo.com/NR/rdonlyres/E4BB6381-ECBB-4300-8F18-52F5E1CDB746/0/CO2freecompany.pdf

BT launches carbon impact assessment service

(ClimateRadar.com) BT today announced that its newly formed Global Services sustainability practice has launched a service to help large corporates and public sector organisations reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint. BT’s carbon impact assessment enables organisations to accurately calculate the amount of CO2 emissions produced as a result of the use of networked IT [...]

Credit card aiming to fight climate change

(ClimateRadar) A new American startup, BrighterPlanet, will be releasing their first product, the patent-pending Bright Card. It is a credit card with a green twist — instead of getting points [...]