press review – 1

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SUSTENERGY PRESS REVIEW – n.1 – 30th June 2008
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RGESD ARTICLES

Hydrogen as an energy vector in the islands’energy supply
Goran Krajacic´, Rui Martins, Antoine Busuttil, NevenDuic, Maria da Graca Carvalho

Hydrogen as an energy vector can increase penetration of renewable and intermittent
sources in the energy supply of the islands and it can serve as an energy vector that may
allow reaching 100% renewable energy supply of island communities.

http://tinyurl.com/3w9emc

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THIS WEEK IN THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS
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THE POWER AND THE GLORY – The Economist

EVERYONE loves a booming market, and most booms happen on the back of technological change. The world’s venture capitalists, having fed on the computing boom of the 1980s, the internet boom of the 1990s and the biotech and nanotech boomlets of the early 2000s, are now looking around for the next one. They think they have found it: energy.

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11565685

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Biofuel use ‘increasing poverty’ – BBC news

Oxfam says so-called green policies in developed countries are contributing to the world’s soaring food prices, which hit the poor hardest.
The group also says biofuels will do nothing to combat climate change.
Its report urges the EU to scrap a target of making 10% of all transport run on renewable resources by 2020.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7472532.stm

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Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole – The Independent

Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-no-ice-at-the-north-pole-855406.html
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McKinsey Global Institute

THE CARBON PRODUCTIVITY CHALLENGE: CURBING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINING ECONOMIC GROWTH

Any successful program of action on climate change must support two objectives—stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) and maintaining economic growth. Research by the McKinsey Global Institute and McKinsey’s Climate Change Initiative finds that reconciling these two objectives means that “carbon productivity,” the amount of GDP produced per unit of carbon equivalents (CO2e) emitted, must increase dramatically.

To meet commonly discussed abatement paths, carbon productivity must increase from approximately $740 GDP per ton of CO2e today to $7,300 GDP per ton of CO2e by 2050—a tenfold increase. This is comparable in magnitude to the labor productivity increases of the Industrial Revolution.

download the report and slideshows here:

http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/Carbon_Productivity/index.asp

download a review of the report here:
http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/27/must-read-mckinsey-report-shatters-myths-on-costs-of-curbing-climate-change/#more-3219

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$140 oil and speculation – The Energy Bulletin

There are A LOT of reasons why oil prices are going up. Let me show you just a few.

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45594

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Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization – Earth Policy Institute

“Lester Brown tells us how to build a more just world and save the planet from climate change in a practical, straightforward way. We should all heed his advice.” –President Bill Clinton

DOWNLOAD THE BOOK HERE

http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PB3/index.htm

SEE A PUBLIC SPEECH HERE
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Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects.
The NYT

Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.

http://tinyurl.com/5mev3h

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Herald Tribune -

No evidence of manipulation in oil trading

So now we know: It’s all the fault of those damnable speculators. They’re the ones to blame as the price of oil tops $140 a barrel.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/28/business/wbjoe28.php?page=1
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and last but not the least…
CLUB4CLIMATE

DANCE AND PRODUCE ENERGY! (maybe)
next party, London 10th of July

http://www.club4climate.com/