industryterm:clean energy projects

China Is Absolutely Destroying the US on Clean Energy
▻http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/11/china-absolutely-destroying-us-clean-energy

When world leaders convene on Monday in Paris for two weeks of high-stakes climate negotiations, one of the top items on the agenda will be how developing nations should prepare for and help to slow global warming. Opponents to President Barack Obama’s climate agenda, such as GOP presidential contender Marco Rubio, like to argue that anything the United States does to curb greenhouse gas emissions will be pointless because countries like India and China aren’t doing the same.

But new data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that this argument is just hot air: For the first time ever, over the last year the majority of global investment in clean energy projects was spent in developing countries. In fact, clean energy investment in China alone outpaced that in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France combined , BNEF found. Across 55 major non-OECD countries, including India, Brazil, China, and Kenya, clean energy investment reached $126 billion in 2014, a record high and 39 percent higher than 2013 levels.

#Chine #Etats-Unis #climat #énergie

Social #injustice dogs two promising #climate solutions — The Daily Climate
▻http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2014/12/climate-solutions-injustice

At the sessions that open in Lima today, nations will be asked to weigh new safeguards for the clean energy projects – particularly hydropower – encouraged under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism. Negotiators will also consider impacts to indigenous rights under the UN’s primary effort to halt deforestation, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation effort, or “#REDD.”

Both programs were designed as win-win solutions that would allow developed countries to gain credit for investing in projects to curb greenhouse gases in the developing world. But both have been hit by allegations that outside, moneyed interests tend to gain under the scenarios, while people most affected by the projects are locals, usually indigenous, who are forced off their land or denied the right to participate in decision-making.

US$800 mil in Arab investments to build new city in Sinai | Egypt Independent

▻http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/us800-mil-arab-investments-build-new-city-sinai

An agreement has been signed with the Arab Women Investors Union to build a new city in Sinai on an area of ​​70,000 square meters and at an investment cost of US$800 million.

Tarek bin Obaid, secretary general of the Euro-Arab Environment Organization in Geneva and president of the Environment Development Bank in Abu Dhabi, said the city would offer integrated services of clean energy projects and medical tourism.

La recherche sur les énergies futures devait être financée par des droits à polluer. Pas de bol, cette Bourse aussi s’est effondrée

European carbon market plummets
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/11/european_carbon_market_plummet_1.html

Prices are plunging dramatically on the world’s largest carbon-trading market. (...)
The European Commission has also said that it won’t delay its sale of carbon credits for the NER 300 clean energy fund. It seems that clean energy projects will miss out on billions of euros.

#recherche #énergie #pollution #bourse