Carbon News
Friday 4th August 2017
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC), will lend $100 million to NSG UK Enterprises, a subsidiary of Japan’s Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG Group), to finance energy efficient glass production in Brazil and Poland.
NSG Group is a global leader in glass production and technology with operations throughout America, Europe and Asia. The ...
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Monday 31st July 2017
THE UK’s Carbon Trust will be running a new £9.2 million Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator (IEEA), launched in January by the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to help bolster the global competitiveness of British industry.
Over the next four years, the IEEA will aim to lower costs and ...
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Monday 24th July 2017
THE Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Energy Working Group at the end of last week said how it is working to aid member countries to improve the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings.
APEC state that the spiking environmental and economic costs of energy inefficient homes and offices, exacerbated by soaring ...
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Friday 21st July 2017
UKRAINE has taken a step forward in improving energy efficiency when Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian President, signed the Energy Efficiency Fund bill, affecting the energy efficiency of buildings.
Germany have said they will provide up to 100 million euros to the Fund. Tansparency in the use of funds allocated from the budget ...
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Monday 17th July 2017
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) report that global energy investment fell by 12% in 2016, the second consecutive year of decline.
Increased spending on energy efficiency and electricity networks was more than offset by a continued drop in upstream oil and gas spending, according to the IEA’s annual World Energy Investment ...
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Friday 14th July 2017
AFTER placing second last year, the Chicago market claimed the top spot with 66% of its space qualified as green certified according to the fourth annual U.S. Green Building Adoption Index study by CBRE and Maastricht University.
San Francisco slipped to second, while Atlanta, Houston and Minneapolis again claimed spots ...
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Monday 10th July 2017
U.S. city New Orleans has released a major new Climate Action Strategy. As one of the most vulnerable cities in the U.S. the city is placing itself at the forefront of climate action.
The Strategy, Climate Action for a Resilient New Orleans, aims to reduce the city’s CO2 emissions by 50% ...
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Friday 7th July 2017
THE UK’s leading property owners, who are improving the sustainability of existing commercial buildings, have saved £16 million since 2011
Members of the Better Buildings Partnership (BBP), a collaboration of the UK’s 28 leading property owners, have improved their portfolio energy efficiency by an impressive 25%, accruing £16 million in energy ...
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Monday 3rd July 2017
INVESTOR Confidence Project (ICP) Europe, a global underwriting standard for developing and measuring energy efficiency retrofits, announced its Investor Ready Energy Efficiency™ (IREE) certification.
The new certification is now being applied to energy efficiency projects across industry, street lighting and district energy. The certification was previously only available to the building ...
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Friday 30th June 2017
THE Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) is providing an $80 million loan to Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) to help improve electricity distribution and increase energy independence and efficiency in Armenia.
“A more efficient and reliable energy distribution network is important for economic growth in Armenia,” said Sonali Tang, Senior Investment Specialist ...
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Monday 26th June 2017
ENERGY ministers in the EU Council today confirmed 30% energy efficiency target, but weakened the key energy saving measure to deliver it.
A meeting of EU energy ministers in Luxembourg today represented the last opportunity for the Maltese Presidency to achieve an ambitious Council position on the 2030 energy efficiency framework.
The ...
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Monday 19th June 2017
IN Denmark a new online portal has been launched to provide open access to the country’s energy data.
The Energy Data Service was launched on Friday and will display real-time energy consumption data from Danish municipalities. The data also reveals CO2 emissions.
The state-owned gas and electricity operator Energinet and the Government ...
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Friday 16th June 2017
OVER 3,100 households in Kosovo are cutting their energy bills and enjoying more comfort at home after investing in energy-saving improvements.
They have been able to improve energy efficiency via the Kosovo Sustainable Energy Projects (KoSEP), an EBRD (European Bank of Reconstruction and Development) credit line supported by Norway and the ...
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Monday 12th June 2017
A BILL passed last month in Hawaii will see almost a third of the State’s $150 million green energy loan program help schools lower their electricity bills.
The bill just needs the signature of Hawaii’s governor David Ige's signature, to provide the state Department of Education an interest-free $46.4 million loan ...
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Thursday 8th June 2017
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has posted a sharp increase in energy efficiency & green economy financing in the first five months of 2017.
The increase puts EBRD well on track to meet ambitious climate finance objectives announced in the run up to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Ahead ...
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Monday 22nd May 2017
UK utility company E.ON has launched its own energy manifesto ahead of the UK Election offering positions and policy suggestions fto make energy simpler, smarter, sustainable, and more efficient for customers.
Globally, the energy sector is taking advantage of new technology and new ways of doing things. E.ON’s aim is to ...
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Friday 19th May 2017
THE U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week announced the energy-efficiency progress made by the 345 leading public and private sector organisations in the Better Buildings Challenge.
These efforts have led to a combined 240 trillion Btus and an estimated $1.9 billion in cumulative energy and cost savings. These results ...
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Monday 15th May 2017
THE New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced that Cayuga County has been designated a Clean Energy Community, recognising its leadership in reducing energy use, cutting costs and driving clean energy in its communities.
This designation is supported by the Central NY Rising initiative which is the ...
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Friday 12th May 2017
THE Indian State-run Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) is to invest around Rs 200 crore to improve the energy efficiency of 1,500 buildings of the Public Works Department of the Maharashtra government.
Recently, Piyush Goyal, India’s Minister of State for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, announced that EESL will ...
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Monday 8th May 2017
MULTINATIONAL clothing retail company, H&M have become one of the latest members of EP100, committing to bold energy productivity improvements.
The announcement was made today at the 2017 Energy Efficiency Global Forum (EE Global) in Washington D.C., where global leaders from business, government, and leading NGOs gathered to assess the future ...
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Friday 28th April 2017
THE U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of 21 new energy and water saving contracts to private-sector companies that will help improve the efficiency of federal facilities.
These indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) are awarded to energy service companies (ESCOs) that provide ...
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Monday 24th April 2017
A NEW repot from the Energy Institute reveals that UK industrial energy efficiency and resource productivity must become a priority in the country’s industrial strategy.
Based of a survey of 1300 energy industry professionals the report indicates the importance of a solid long term, low carbon energy plan particularly for buildings ...
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Friday 21st April 2017
THE World Bank is providing a $102 million loan to the government of Vietnam to support industrial enterprises in adopting energy-efficiency technologies and practices.
Vietnamese industrial enterprises can access a line of credit to purchases of energy-efficiency technologies, and hence reduce energy consumption and costs while increasing their overall competitiveness in ...
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Monday 10th April 2017
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India today signed a $200 million loan to finance installation of millions of energy-efficient lights in streets and homes as well as energy-efficient water pumps across India that will lead to energy savings of around 3,800 gigawatt-hours annually.
ADB funds will be ...
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Friday 7th April 2017
THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are honoring 143 businesses and organizations in 34 states and the District of Columbia for their commitment to saving energy, saving money, and protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency achievements.
The highlighting of these awards seems to ...
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$100M To Improve Energy Efficiency in Japanese and Polish Glass Production
