GMANews.TV – WWF lauds Senate passage of renewable energy bill – Nation – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News – BETA
WWF lauds Senate passage of renewable energy bill – Nation – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News – BETA
MANILA, Philippines – Another environmental group lauded the Senate Tuesday for finally passing the renewable energy bill.
The World Wildlife Fund said the 18-0 vote to unanimously approve Senate Bill 2046, or the Philippine Renewable Energy Act, is a milestone.
“In passing this landmark legislation, the Senate has just paved the way for the country’s drive towards energy independence and low-carbon growth. By tapping our massive reserves of clean energy resources – a competitive advantage that was largely neglected in the past – the Philippines now stands a far better chance of attaining sustainable development whilst contributing to global efforts to prevent dangerous climate change.” said WWF’s Asia Pacific Energy Policy Manager Raf Senga.
GMANews.TV – WWF lauds Senate passage of renewable energy bill – Nation – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News – BETA
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Report: Global Green Job Market Expected To Explode
Global Green Job Market Expected To Explode
September 29, 2008 Report: New York, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com]Last week four international organizations released a report on the global impact of the green economy. The report, entitled Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World, says that millions of new green jobs will be created across the globe in the coming decades around efforts to mitigate climate change.The UN Environment Program (UNEP) under a joint Green Jobs Initiative with the International Labor Office (ILO), as well as the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Organization of Employers (IOE) funded and commissioned the report, which was ultimately produced by the Worldwatch Institute, with technical assistance from the Cornell University Global Labor Institute.
Many sectors are already experiencing job growth around such efforts, notes the report, indicating that changing patterns of employment and investment resulting from efforts to reduce climate change and its effects are already generating new jobs in many sectors and economies, and could create millions more in both developed and developing countries. Sectors that will be particularly important in terms of their environmental, economic and employment impact are energy supply, in particular renewable energy, buildings and construction, transportation, basic industries, agriculture and forestry.
Specifically the report says that 2.3 million people have, in recent years, found new jobs in the renewable energy sector alone, and the potential for job growth in the sector is huge. Employment in renewable energies may rise to 2.1 million in wind and 6.3 million in solar power by 2030. Projected investments in renewable energy of US $630 billion by 2030 would translate into at least 20 million additional jobs in the renewable energy sector.
In addition, the report says that a worldwide transition to energy-efficient buildings would create millions of jobs, as well as “greening” existing employment for many of the estimated 111 million people already working in the construction sector. Investments in improved energy efficiency in buildings could generate an additional 2-3.5 million green jobs in Europe and the United States alone, with the potential much higher in developing countries.
The report provides examples of massive green jobs creation throughout the world, such as: 600,000 people in China who are already employed in solar thermal manufacturing and installing products such as solar water heaters
Report: Global Green Job Market Expected To Explode
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Small sacrifice can save the planet
Sydney Morning Herald Marian Wilkinson and Ben Cubby
October 1, 2008AUSTRALIANS will be driving clean electric cars, giving up their lamb roast and rump steaks for chicken and pork, living in higher-density cities and swapping cheap air flights for interstate trains.
In the outback, millions of beef cattle and sheep will disappear from the marginal rangelands, farmers will grow grasses and eucalypts for carbon trading and kangaroos will dominate the bush, potentially becoming one of the nation’s biggest export meats.
This image of a sustainable future for Australia has now become a mainstream view with the release of Professor Ross Garnaut’s final sweeping report on how the nation can take up the fight against climate change. It can be achieved for a modest increase in our electricity bills – but the overall cost will be less than the impact of the GST.
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China is open to renewable power
Sydney Morning Herald Ben Cubby, Environment Reporter
October 1, 2008THE solar power magnate and Chinese-Australian billionaire Zhengrong Shi has not made his fortune by being pessimistic.
While China’s attitude to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions loomed large over Ross Garnaut’s climate change report, Dr Shi believes China is well on the road to becoming a renewable energy superpower.
Dr Shi, an Australian citizen, last night returned to the University of NSW, where he used to teach, to address graduating students. He said he would not be surprised if China did commit to binding targets for reducing its soaring emissions at the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen next year.
“I think China will be heavily involved. It is already very high on the Government agenda,” he said………………………
Dr Shi called for the Federal Government to heed Professor Garnaut’s suggestion that a national feed-in tariff be introduced to encourage people to adopt renewable energy.
The tariff works by paying people with rooftop solar panels more than the market rate to feed electricity back into the power grid. Similar schemes in several European nations have fuelled a boom in renewable power.
Dr Shi’s solar panel manufacturing empire, Suntech Power, could benefit handsomely from a tariff, but he insists any government subsidy would only need to last a few years because solar costs will soon be competitive with coal.
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Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand
Australia Could Get 35% of Power Supply From Waves, Study Shows
By Angela Macdonald-Smith Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) — Australia could economically get 35 percent of its needs for continuous power supply from energy generated by waves, helping cut greenhouse gases, said Carnegie Corp., an Australian clean-energy technology company.The country has a wave energy resource in near-shore areas where water is less than 25 meters deep of about 171,000 megawatts, Perth-based Carnegie said today, citing a report. That’s about four times total installed power generating capacity, it said, citing research from RPS MetOcean, a unit of Abingdon, England-based RPS Group Plc.
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Green Energy Sector Gets Boost From Senate – TheStreet.com
Green Energy Sector Gets Boost From Senate
TheStreet.com 24 Sept 08 by Ucilia WangThe U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved about $18 billion of renewable-energy tax credits after repeated failed attempts to do so this year.
The 93-2 vote cleared a major hurdle for extending a set of tax credits for businesses and residents investing in renewable energy, from building and operating power plants to installing small wind turbines on residential properties………………………………..Consumers who want to install solar panels on their properties would benefit from the bill, which extends investment-tax credits for eight years and eliminates today’s $2,000 cap on the credits. It would also allow homeowners installing small-wind equipment and geothermal heat pumps to take advantage of the credits, but the amounts would be capped at $4,000 for wind and $2,000 for the heat pumps.
Green Energy Sector Gets Boost From Senate – TheStreet.com
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Community groups call for climate action – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Community groups call for climate action
ABC News 22 Sept 08 Environmentalists have rallied in Canberra to support a climate change bill drafted by community action groups.
The Climate Change Protection Bill contains 19 recommendations aimed at cutting greenhouse emissions and building a clean energy future.
It is written and endorsed by more than 65 community-based climate change groups.
Philip Sutton from the Greenleap Strategic Institute says pressure needs to be put on politicians to act.
“So we’re right on the knife’s edge of a runaway development of greenhouse warming, this is incredibly serious,” he said.
“In terms of a threat to people’s life and well-being, it really is literally equivalent to the Second World War in terms of damage that could occur to our human societies.”
Thousands of postcards from around Australia supporting the bill were collected at the rally at Parliament House.
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has promised he will deliver them to the Parliament.
Community groups call for climate action – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Energy measures could save $40b: report – Breaking News – National – Breaking News
Energy measures could save $40b: report
Sydney Morning Herald 21 Sept 08 Renewable energy targets and energy efficient measures need to be included in an emissions trading scheme to save the electricity sector more than $40 billion, the Climate Institute says.
Modelling commissioned for the Climate Institute reveals improvements to energy efficiency and the federal government’s renewable energy target (RET) would reduce the long-term cost of reducing emissions from Australia’s electricity sector by billions of dollars.
Introducing an emissions trading scheme without such measures could cost the sector more than $40 billion, the Climate Institute said…………………..Climate Institute chief executive John Connor said the modelling showed the most cost effective way to clean up Australia’s electricity generating sector was to tap into energy efficiency opportunities.
Energy measures could save $40b: report – Breaking News – National – Breaking News
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Domestic Fuel » Archives » House Passes Energy Bill with Renewable Fuels Provisions
House Passes Energy Bill with Renewable Fuels Provisions
Domestic fuel John Davis September 16th, 2008The U.S. House has approved a measure that will renew some tax credits for wind and solar power that were set to expire at the end of this year, as well as allowing more drilling for offshore oil…..House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi hailed the 236-189 vote as a victory because the bill also included Democratic priorities such as stripping oil companies of $18 billion in tax breaks, renewing expiring tax credits for wind and solar, and requiring electric utilities to get 15 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020.
The measure “will put us on the path toward energy independence” and make “Big Oil pay for its fair share of our transition to a clean, renewable energy future,” Pelosi said.
The measure is far from a done deal as it still needs to make it through the U.S. Senate where there are three other energy bills that are very different than the House bill. Plus, the White House has threatened to veto the measure.
Domestic Fuel » Archives » House Passes Energy Bill with Renewable Fuels Provisions
Senator Scott Ludlam’s inaugural speech | Scott Ludlam
What would our economy look like if we substituted the frenzied incineration of our finite energy base with the limitless and infinite flows of renewable energy?………………………………
This kind of Australia isn’t merely possible, it is coming into being right now by the sheer force of will of thousands of people in every town and city in the country. Some of the ideas are new, and some of them are very old. What keeps me optimistic is the collective vision held out by so many people working everywhere toward a renewable community, because that’s the place I want to live.
This isn’t the end of economic growth, but the beginning of a conversation about what kind of growth we need and what kind we can no longer afford. It’s about how to truly live as human beings on this fragile planet…………………..
One rather profound consequence of a renewable energy system is that once the infrastructure is in place, the fuel costs are largely free. No-one can own the sun, wind, and tides, and perhaps it is this which scares the fossil corporations more than anything.
I think it’s time we admitted that far from being an economic and social disaster, greening our communities is going to transform our society for the better……………………………Electrified light rail systems and electric vehicles hold out the promise of a transport network that runs on sunlight. Imagine if we could invent a zero carbon form of personal transport that had no fuel costs, emitted no toxic chemicals and improved the physical health of the passenger? Such an invention is already in wide use in parts of our community where planning policies favour bikes and pedestrians instead of cars………………………..An energy-efficient Australia can be renewably powered within a generation. With determination and a bit of foresight, we can now step past the desperate handful of fossil advocates who are scaremongering about the end of the economy as they know it and demanding that Australia not get too far in front of the rest of the world. The most damaging myth of all is the one which says this can’t be done.
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Wind Turbines to Propel Renewable Energy in Finland
Uutiset 14.09.2008 Government has agreed to construct a number of wind power plants over the next decade. Information obtained by YLE indicates that the aim is to generate about 200 megawatts of wind power by the year 2020. In principle about 1,000 wind turbines would be needed to produce that much power.The proposal calls for development of wind parks in key catchment areas such as coastlines and near the sea, to accommodate the large numbers of turbines needed. The proposal is part of government’s climate and energy strategy that is currently being hammered out.
Boosting wind power requires other supporting programmes, such as so-called input tariffs, which are expected to be approved in principle during the autumn……………………..The working group has failed to reach agreement on amping up nuclear-generated power in Finland
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Emissions trading to bring ag opportunities: Rabobank – National Rural News – Agribusiness and General – Finance – Stock Journal
Emissions trading to bring ag opportunities: Rabobank
farmonline Stock journal 15/09/2008 Significant opportunities will emerge for Australian agriculture to benefit from moves to address climate change, according to a leading international expert in the field.Head of policy at British-based carbon specialist investment banking house Climate Change Capital (CCC), Kate Hampton, says the potential commercial opportunities presented by the transition to a low-carbon economy were considerable for Australian farmers and agribusinesses.
But she says the sector must engage with government and participate in the policy debate to address climate change…………………………….
She said that although Australia’s contribution to overall global carbon emissions was relatively small, there was a clear potential for ‘first-mover’ advantage by being a world leader in addressing climate change.
This was especially the case for agriculture, where the combination of fundamental demand for food from a growing world population and the need to, at the same time, reduce carbon emissions from farming would bring clear commercial benefits for those who could achieve this in the longer term.
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A Detailed Report Analyzing the Green Electricity Industry in Australia is Now Available: Gain a Valuable Insight into the Australian Market – MarketWatch
A Detailed Report Analyzing the Green Electricity Industry in Australia is Now Available: Gain a Valuable Insight into the Australian Market
Market Watch Sept. 14, 2008 DUBLIN, Ireland, Sep 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Research and MarketsGreen energy is a term used to describe sources of energy that are considered to be environmentally friendly and non-polluting. These sources of energy may provide a remedy to the systemic effects of global warming and certain forms of pollution.Green energy is commonly thought of in the context of electricity, heating and cogeneration. Consumers, businesses and organizations may purchase green energy in order to support further development, help reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity generation and increase their nation’s energy independence. Renewable energy certificates (Green certificates or green tags) have been one way for consumers and businesses to support green energy. Over 35 million homes in Europe and one million in the United States are purchasing such certificates………………………… Green electricity in Australia is available from a number of green energy suppliers that supply electricity from what are thought to be environmentally friendly energy sources. Typically, this refers to renewable and non-polluting energy sources. The growth and development of the green energy industry is tracked in Australia by the ALTEX-Australia alternative energy index.This report analyzes green electricity in Australia. The report begins with an analysis of the global energy industry, the Australian energy industry and the Australian renewable energy, setting the stage for introducing the importance of green electricity in Australia. The report covers all the renewable energy sectors that are actively participating in generating electricity through ecological methods. Australia’s renewable energy certificate system is also described in details within the report, along with an in-depth analysis of the regulatory framework affecting electricity generation in a green manner.The leading providers of green electricity in Australia such as AGL, EnergyAustralia, Origin Energy, etc., are all profiled in the report.
San Antonio will turn sewage into energy – Environment- msnbc.com
San Antonio will turn sewage into energy
Methane gas emitted by biosolids expected to earn up to $250,000 a year
Associated Press Sept. 12, 2008 SAN ANTONIO – The city plans to turn the stench of its residents’ waste into sweet green cash and renewable energy.The San Antonio Water System will sell captured methane gas generated from the utility’s treatment of 140,000 tons of biosolids, or sewage, from customers each year.
The city-owned utility’s board of trustees approved a contract Tuesday to provide at least 900,000 cubic feet of natural gas daily for the next 20 years to Ameresco Inc., a Framingham, Mass.-based energy services company.
San Antonio will turn sewage into energy – Environment- msnbc.com
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Renewable, efficient energy touted to US lawmakers | Markets | Reuters
Renewable, efficient energy touted to US lawmakers
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) 12 Sept 08 – Energy experts urged U.S. lawmakers on Friday to focus on efficiency and renewable energy, as well as increased domestic production, as they consider legislation to address volatile fuel prices.
Speaking at a bipartisan energy summit hosted by the U.S. Senate, experts encouraged lawmakers to invest in research and technology and make tax credits for renewable energy consistent.
“An on-again, off-again production tax credit is not a way to promote stable development of renewable energy,” Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, told lawmakers.
Renewable, efficient energy touted to US lawmakers | Markets | Reuters
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