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

QUOTE: “For those countries that choose it, nuclear power will be a very important part of their solution to security of supply and reduction of greenhouse gases.”

(ClimateRadar.com) European Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik, “For those countries that choose it, nuclear power will be a very important part of their solution to security of supply and reduction of greenhouse gases.” At a press conference on the launch of new nuclear research center SNETP www.snetp.eu

New forum established for sustainable nuclear energy research

(ClimateRadar.com) Energy consumption worldwide is likely to double between 2000 and 2050, and nuclear energy will remain a key element in future low-carbon energy systems. Europe has the largest nuclear industry in the world and one third of its electricity comes from nuclear plants. A Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) was launched in Brussels, [...]

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

‘A Convenient Truth’: a climate change movie

(ClimateRadar) Young entrepreneur makes movie about Sweden’s journey towards carbon neutrality.

http://www.aconvenienttruth.co.uk/

EU Plans Climate Change Pact With Poor Countries

(PlanetArk) “Developing countries will be the hardest hit by the effects of climate change and therefore need our help to mitigate climate change and to adapt to the changes already occurring,” the European Commission said in a statement.
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44403/story.htm

First Environmental fund of hedge funds launched

 
(ClimateRadar) A new fund of hedge funds is revolutionising the way the climate change industry will be financed.
https://www.rmf.ch/multimedia/news/press_articles/2007/pr050907_rmf_trading.pdf

Climate change tops future humanitarian challenges: Annan

 
(AFP) Former UN chief Kofi Annan warned Monday that climate change was likely to be the most urgent humanitarian challenge in the future, highlighting some one million people hit by recent flooding in Africa.

Iceland to be ice free very soon

(News Yahoo) One day during a visit to the lovely country of Iceland last May, the retiring Icelandic ambassador to the United States, Helgi Agustsson, got a slightly devilish look on his face, then said suddenly to me: “There’s someone else you must see while you’re here in Reykjavik. He has a kind of… [...]

Italy debating renewable energy

 
(Environmental News Network) Italian government officials took to newspapers on Saturday to promote alternative energy, including banned nuclear power, as a debate over the country’s heavy dependence on power imports cranked up.
http://www.enn.com/energy/article/23069