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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” by Bill Cooke. Billion vs. $28.3

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. Every ton of offsets verified by a DOE can thereafter be used to compensate for excessive emissions by companies in Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. The Breeze got their own headline wrong since Bradley isn’t a “Torrance man&# he lives in Rancho Palos Verdes where his business is based, as it says in paragraph five of their article, but you’ve got to cut them some slack because their legacy ship is sinking.

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Why are some EV chargers more expensive than others?

Green Charging

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. Do not fear, in this article, we discuss why some EV chargers are more low-priced than others. It supports organisations through grants and finances via OZEV or EVHS funding. These plug types include the CHAdeMO standard used in Japan EVs.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Nissan has a memorandum of understanding with One North East, the regionaldevelopment agency, to potentially use its Sunderland plant to produceelectric vehicles, but its first cars will all come from Japan. BMW’s Oxfordplant is the sole source of the Mini so if an electric Mini goes intoproduction it will start there.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. It’s still unknown how much other wealthy nations, such as the US and Japan, will contribute.