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• Pollution from Industrial Facilities Costs Europe $229 Billion

  Published 28 November 2011 | viewed 5,037 times

  Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102 billion and €169 billion ($137 billion-$226 billion) in 2009, according to…

• EU Economic Fears Causing Carbon Price Forecasts to be Slashed

  Published 23 November 2011 | viewed 4,855 times

  Growing fears about the EU’s economy have prompted a new wave of downgrades of carbon price forecasts – but a prediction by UBS that prices…

• Energy Storage Sector Sees Record Investments in Q3

  Published 07 November 2011 | viewed 5,076 times

  A record $421 million of venture capital investment in the energy storage sector helped push clean-tech venture capital (VC) investment in the US up 73%…

• Soaring U.S. Wind Power Sector Growing Nervous Over Tax Incentives

  Published 27 October 2011 | viewed 8,789 times

  The US wind power sector is soaring thanks in large part to a tax policy that makes it attractive to investors, but the uncertainty surrounding…

• UK Could Capture a Quarter of $750bn Marine Energy Market

  Published 09 May 2011 | viewed 24,214 times

  Waves and tides could provide up to 240GW of renewable energy globally by 2050, requiring investment of £460 billion ($750 billion), according to the Carbon…

• Middle East's Largest Solar Energy Project Secures $600 Million Financing

  Published 28 March 2011 | viewed 6,112 times

  Plans to build the largest solar power plant in the Middle East moved a step closer to reality after financing closed on the $600 million…

• China's Five Year Energy and Emissions Plan

  Published 11 March 2011 | viewed 7,188 times

  China has set conservative targets for reducing energy use and cutting carbon emissions in its 12th five-year plan – and will reveal the policies to…

• Exelon to Invest $5 Billion in Clean Energy

  Published 19 November 2010 | viewed 5,171 times

  US utility Exelon is to invest nearly $5 billion in low-carbon energy projects starting this year, as part of plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions…

• Global Firms Ramping up Climate Spending

  Published 29 May 2010 | viewed 5,500 times

  Seventy percent of global executives plan to increase investment in climate initiatives over the next two years, according to an Ernst & Young survey. Out…

• Biomass Energy Plantations "Worsen Climate Change" - NGO

  Published 25 May 2010 | viewed 12,063 times

  The bioenergy industry has defended the use of forest plantations to create fuel for power plants, following claims by NGO Biofuelwatch that expanding wood biomass…

• Environmental Markets at Centre of Chesapeake Clean-Up Plan

  Published 14 May 2010 | viewed 8,663 times

  In a ground-breaking initiative that could trigger a new era in ecosystem markets, the Obama administration issued an executive order yesterday to protect and restore…