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US-public sector green house gas inventory

Posted by Jan Prahm October 7th, 2010

It might be right that the USA are the biggest GHG emitter historically and that they have one of the highest per capita CO2 emission and that they were not helpful in sealing a Copenhagen protocol, but is also right that many small initiatives are taking place in the US in order to reduce the [...]

U.S.-China Climate and Energy: Cooperation or Competition?

Posted by Jan Prahm October 1st, 2010

By Michael Oko of World Resource Institute on September 29, 2010
Tags: china energy international policy renewable energy trade
Leading US-China Experts Discuss Tianjin and US-China Climate and Energy Issues.
The international climate meetings in Tianjin on October 4-9 will be a key moment for US-China relations on climate and energy. Today ChinaFAQs experts held a press [...]

California Licenses World’s Biggest Solar Thermal Plant

Posted by webmaster September 27th, 2010

California regulators have licensed what is for the moment the world’s largest solar thermal power plant, a 1,000-megawatt complex called the Blythe Solar Power Project to be built in the Mojave Desert.
By contrast, a total of 481 megawatts of new solar capacity was installed in the United States last year, mostly from [...]