sustenergy press review n. 12

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SUSTENERGY PRESS REVIEW n.12 – 29 Septeber 2008
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Mobile phones to track carbon footprint
Keeping track of your carbon footprint could become as simple as slipping a mobile phone in your pocket: a London-based start-up company has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning satellites to work out automatically whether [...]

sustenergy press review – 11

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Portugal vai ser pioneiro a nível mundial no aproveitamento da energia das ondas
O primeiro parque de ondas pré-comercial do mundo foi inaugurado em Portugal a 23 de Setembro de 2008. Localizado ao largo da Aguçadora, Póvoa do Varzim, tem 3 máquinas Pelamis – desenvolvidas por uma empresa britânica. Parecem enormes cobras que oscilam ao sabor [...]

press review n.7

SPECIAL DOHA SESSION

Doha Collapse No Surprise But Extremely Unfortunate — Especially for Developing Countries

http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/07/doha_collapse_no_surprise_but.php

Food Security Fears Undermine Doha Trade Talks
http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/07/food_security_fears_undermine.php

South Centre’s Analysis and News of the WTO’s Mini-Ministerial

http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=664&Itemid=1

Trade Talks Crumble in Feud Over Farm Aid
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072900556.html?hpid=topnews

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Solar Thermal Power Coming to a Boil

Jonathan G. Dorn

After emerging in 2006 from 15 years of hibernation, the solar thermal [...]

PRESS REVIEW n 5 – 22 july 2008

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SUSTENERGY PRESS REVIEW N. 5 - 22 July 2008
(AVAILABLE ALSO AT SUSTENERGY.WORDPRESS.COM)

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Açores: investigador admite produção de cem toneladas/dia de hidrogénio dentro de quatro a cinco anos

http://economia.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1336081

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Biofuel policies in OECD countries costly and ineffective, says report

OECD’s Economic Assessment of Biofuel Support Policies says biofuels are currently highly dependent on public funding to be viable. In the [...]

SUSTENERGY press review n.4

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SUSTENERGY PRESS REVIEW n. 4 – 10 July 2008
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Center for Global Development – SCRAP the G8

An article full of links from on the best think tank on global development issues

Once again the G8 has come up tragically short on climate change and a host of urgent problems affecting poor people [...]

press review – 3 – 7 July 2008

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SUSTENERGY PRESS REVIEW – 3 – 7 July 2008
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The Guardian
Clean tech: Green energy is the modern gold rush

The “clean tech” sector has bounced back from the credit crunch with new global figures showing a resurgence of interest from investors in alternative energy – labelled a “green Klondike” that could reach $600bn annually by 2020.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/02/renewableenergy.carbonemissions

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The Guardian
Secret [...]

SUSTENERGY PRESS REVIEW – n.2 – 2 July 2008

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THE GUARDIAN -

Cost of tackling global climate change has doubled, warns Stern
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/26/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange
STERN REVIEW on the economics of climate change here!!!
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/stern_review_report.cfm
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Center for Global Development
Lord Stern Calls for New Conditionality — On Climate and from Developing Countries this Time!
http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2008/06/lord_stern_calls_for_new_condi.php
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Bloomberg -
OPEC Leader Khelil Says Dollar Will Drive Oil to $170
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aq_sRQH22HdY&refer=worldwide
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Global Clean-Energy Investment Rose 60% in 2007 – [...]

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 [...]