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Chevy buying carbon credits from US colleges; new formula helps fund campus energy-efficient projects

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Chevrolet is investing in clean energy efficiency initiatives of US colleges and universities through its voluntary carbon-reduction initiative. Such funding enables universities to reduce their impact and save money on utility bills while engaging and educating students in their efforts. Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

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Bank of America joins Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project

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The GCEP collaboration expects to benefit from the bank’s expertise in financing sustainable businesses dedicated to addressing climate change and advancing low-carbon solutions. Bank of America’s member on the GCEP management committee will be James Mahoney, the bank’s corporate communications and public policy executive.

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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). Energy Markets in a State of Change. by Bill Cooke. M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. Billion vs. $28.3

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Global companies form below50 to scale up low-carbon sustainable fuels; Audi in from automotive sector

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A key outcome of the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships initiative ( LCTPi ), below50 is intended to grow a global corporate market for sustainable low-carbon transport fuels (LCTFs). These types of partnerships are a necessity to drive societal change. —Rob van Leen, Chief Innovation Officer of Royal DSM.

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Smith School report recommends individual governments take more national and bi-lateral actions to curb greenhouse gas emissions

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The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford recently published a report recommending that individual governments take more action to curb their own greenhouse gas emissions and put pressure on other governments to do the same. International climate negotiations can only go so far.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The program will fund interdisciplinary research in six key areas: resource development; uses; environmental impacts and climate change; global markets and finance; policy and regulatory reform; and geopolitical impacts.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Moreover, developers must show that the project would make no economic sense without CDM funds and that documentation exists to demonstrate that these factors were considered by the company’s board of directors in their decision to pursue CDM financing. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation.

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