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

PRESS RELEASE: $3 million fund to aid renewables

 
(ClimateRadar) CANADA – The Community Power Fund has launched today a new $3 million fund to support community-owned renewable energy projects in Ontario. This fund is the first of its kind in Canada.
http://www.cpfund.ca/pdf/fund-launch-release.pdf

Natixis plans €500M carbon fund after winning carbon deal of the year

Natixis Environnement & Infrastructures (“Natixis E&I”), the investment manager of the European Carbon Fund (“ECF”), received the “Carbon Finance Transaction of the Year” Award from the Environmental Finance Magazine in September 2007 for a large coal mine CDM transaction in China, under the Clean Development Mechanism (“CDM”).
http://www.natixis.fr/nbp/vgn/portal/generator/application/pdf/0,4644,458566372-VGNMAAT-COMMUNIQUE1-TYPE_MIME_COMMUNIQUE1,00.pdf

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

Greenhouse Gas Protocol Publishes New Guidelines

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) announced new guidelines for calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
http://www.wbcsd.ch/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&ObjectId=MjYyMjY
For report >>>  http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/JhVRXJ4XK4Stk9ILWrGg/GHGProtocol-Electricity.pdf

UNFCCC launches online CDM marketplace

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have announced the official launch of the CDM Bazaar web-portal <www.cdmbazaar.net>, designed to facilitate exchange of information among buyers, sellers and service providers engaged in the clean development mechanism (CDM).
http://cdm.unfccc.int/CDMNews/issues/issues/I_L6W569ZH62RDVOQETAT7X578TNTG0I/viewnewsitem.html

VC investment in clean tech increases globally

The Cleantech Network™ reported today that in Q2 2007 North American and European venture investments in the cleantech category totaled just under USD $1 billion, representing a 10% increase over the $903 million invested in Q1 2007. For the first half of 2007, there was a total of $1.90 billion in venture capital invested in [...]

Hit TV series ‘24′ goes carbon neutral

Show Will Take Significant Steps to Reduce its Carbon Footprint For Season Seven with the Goal of Accruing Enough Emissions Savings To Render Entire Season Finale CarbonNeutral; “24” Hopes to Inspire Other Series and Millions of Viewers To Join Fight to Curb Climate Change.

http://www.fox.com/24/info.htm
Kiefer Sutherland video announcement–>

http://www.fox.com/video/index.htm?cat_id=24&clip_id=24_psa_hi 

Nanotech solar startups offers light

North Caorlina is becoming a cleantech hub with two new startups. FlexiCell is a next generation solar cell producer, and PlexiLightdevelops a revolutionary lighting source that is lightweight, ultra-thin and energy efficient because it uses nanotechnology to produce visible light directly.
http://www.wfu.edu/news/release/2007.07.20.n.php

Report Ranks Top Investments by Carbon Emissions

Trucost, the international environmental research organisation, has released its annual ranking of UK investment funds based on their carbon emissions: Carbon Counts 2007: The Carbon Footprint Ranking of UK Investment Funds.

http://www.trucost.com/pressreleases/CarbonCounts2007.html