QUOTE: “The first thing we have to do is destroy oil as a strategic commodity”

(ClimateRadar.com) “The first thing we have to do is destroy oil as a strategic commodity.” Former CIA director James Woolsey said at a renewable enrgy conference in Iowa, USA. Woolsey, is now a lawyer specializing in energy for the Booz Allen Hamilton consulting firm.
http://www.renewableonparade.com/

CHINA: Renewable energy accounted for 8% in 2006

(ClimateRadar.com) According to a report from World Solar-energy Conference held in Beijing, China produced 8% renewable energy in 2006, 0.5% more than in 2005. By the end of 2006, China’s solar energy heaters grew to a scale of 90 million square meters, accounting for 75.8% of the world’s total holding. According to China’s medium and [...]

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.

Renewable energy is not a bubble

Renewable energies and demand-side technologies have become the third largest investment class for venture capitalists (VC) in the U.S. This was just one of the messages heard by the more than 700 investors and entrepreneurs who convened on the campus of the University of California Davis this week for a three-day conference that showcased the [...]

UNEP organises Clean Up Week

Community-based action on climate change involving an estimated 35 million people across the planet in 2007 will culminate in the Clean Up the World Weekend on 14-16 September.
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=517&ArticleID=5661&l=en

Mel Gibson turned climate change entrepreneur

Hollywood actor Looks to Transport Carbon Dioxide Waste to Far-off Oil and Gas Fields
http://www.thedailygreen.com/2007/09/12/mel-gibson-gives-nod-to-co2-shipping-scheme/6506/?src=nl&mag=tdg&list=dgr

Christian March begins with Hollywood star

Hollywood star Greta Scaachi and Maggot from Goldie Lookin’ Chain were among a crowd welcoming an 80-day march against global warming as it reached Cardiff.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/6986107.stm

Doha Bank organising global warming seminar

DOHA Bank organised a seminar on ‘Global warming and environment protection’ in Singapore at the weekend as part of its ongoing pro-environment initiative.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=171651&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 

Spain’s EuroBasket 2007 to be carbon neutral

The basketball European championship in Spain next month will be a carbon neutral event, organisers have said.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6830853,00.html 

US hosting global warming summit

The Bush administration has announced that it is organising a high-level conference on global warming next month that would bring together the world’s 15 biggest polluters to seek agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions: United States (host)
European Union (Current EU President and European Commission) Plus France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, Japan, [...]