Richard Blackwell, Globe and Mail, February 24, 2012
In late 2007 and early 2008, the global renewable energy sector seemed on the cusp of a golden age, as investors pushed the price of big, multinational players in the green-tech space to record highs.
Four years later most of those large companies – mainly solar cell [...]
Pilita Clark, Financial Times, December 14, 2011
It is being called the huddle that made history. Even by the standards of UN climate talks, where delegates have been known to leap on tables, fling insults or dissolve publicly into tears, what happened on the conference floor of the Durban convention centre in the small hours of [...]
December 5, 2011 – WSJ Blog Post by PATRICK MCGROARTY
China shook up sleepy climate talks in Durban on Monday by saying it could accept binding emissions reductions after 2020—as long as the U.S. and other developed-world emitters do most of the work in the meantime.
“We accept a legally binding arrangement,” from 2020 onward, [...]
The SDTC Investment Committee (IC) meetings are always fascinating because of the many wonderful and interesting projects and technologies that are discussed and reviewed. Also very interesting are the sidebar conversations with fellow IC members during breaks, before and after the closed-door sessions.
Tom Sweeney, an IC member now based in Dubai, had many thought [...]
