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

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Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone.

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Energy ministers agree to help speed up global deployment of carbon capture and storage

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Energy Ministers from around the world have agreed to proposals to help speed up the global deployment of carbon capture and storage. The World Resources Institute released a report titled CCS Demonstrations in Developing Countries: Priorities for a Financing Mechanism for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage.

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FreeWire Technologies raises $125M in Series D; battery-integrated ultrafast EV charging stations

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The financing consists of a Senior Convertible Note provided exclusively by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. Citigroup served as sole private placement advisor and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati served as FreeWire’s legal advisor on the transactions.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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During 2014, the global plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry is poised to grow by 86% and will surpass more than 346,000 new vehicles sold, according to a new white paper—“ Electric Vehicles: 10 Predictions for 2014 ”—published by Navigant Research. The result is a marketplace that is more competitive with better products.

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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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Bringing developing countries into the carbon markets in order to encourage low carbon development, provide finance and make the most of mitigation opportunities. It is simply not acceptable that major developed nations such as the US are not behind a global agreement. International climate negotiations can only go so far.

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PBL Study Finds Developed Countries Proposals for Copenhagen Fall Short for Reaching 2 °C Climate Objective

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The current proposals by developed countries on the table for the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 °C (based on a long-term 450 ppm concentration of GHG), according to a new report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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The majority of global shipbuilding happens in South Korea, Japan, and China. It helped organize an IAEA symposium on floating nuclear power plants this past November that brought together nuclear and maritime regulators, legal and policy experts, and industry leaders. Yet the nation’s shipbuilding industry is tiny.