Kyoto Protocol

Beginning in 2009, Ontario introduced “smart” meters, along with “time-of-use” electricity pricing designed to help homeowners manage increasingly expensive electricity costs. 

On the face of it, Americans seem to love trash. Canadians, not so much, as the story of Plasco Energy Group highlights.  The company is capitalizing on that apparently national desire to put trash in its place; in Canada’s case, diverting its municipal solid waste, or MSW, to waste-to-energy streams.

Climate change is a topic that has steamrolled into mass consciousness, and the discourse gains more intensity daily.  There are multiple interests, parties, and positions all claiming legitimacy within the discussion. 

As this year’s UN-sponsored climate change talks kicked off in Cancun, slow but steady progress is being made by those in attendance.

Carbonfund.org, a leading nonprofit carbon reduction and climate change organization, has called for the United States to stay home allowing for United Nations' negotiations on climate change to make progress in Cancun,

Using the recently released Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) report, Maximizing Climate Benefits from Ozone Protection, as a guide the Montreal Protocol will be making decisions to begin phasing out production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

I spent three weeks in Germany this past August with my family, and one thing I noticed right off the bat there – all the solar panels.  They are everywhere, thousands of them.  On businesses, farms, small and large homes, in big cities and in rural towns.  I had some serious solar panel envy.

Already a controversial subject, carbon credit trading finds itself further under the microscope as the United Nations investigates five chemical plants in China that have been involved in potentially fraudulent carbon credit trades.

Phase one of Indian Energy Ltd.'s (LON:IEL) Theni Wind Farm project has gone fully operational and is connected to the existing grid.