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Global industry CO2 output rises even in weak economy

Explore Technology News (Dec 5 2011) Emissions , Fossil Fuel

...per unit of GDP, has stalled, according to the study, which analyzed data from the U.S. government, United Nations, and BP Statistics. Global emissions from burning fossil fuels and cement production grew 5.9 perce... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   U.N.   United Nations

KPMG Captures Heat for Data Center Cooling

Explore news.nationalgeographic.com (Oct 28 2011)

...ng services include a carbon advisory practice. (When Yvo de Boer stepped down from his post at the United Nations, where he oversaw four years of fraught climate negotiations, he joined KPMG as an adviser in the c... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   International Energy Agency   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Study: Internet Firms Lagging On Green Strategy

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...that its carbon footprint is around 1.5 million tonnes, putting its energy usage around that of the United Nations. On the other hand, several companies have rejected stakeholder requests for greater disclosure. In... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

HP: We've Got the World's Most Efficient Modular Data Center

Explore GigaOM (Jun 6 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

... box” technology, called ITPAC (IT pre-assembled components), to customers like most recently the United Nations for its new office in Nairobi, Kenya. ITPAC is actually manufactured by air cooling company Saiver,... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   United Nations   Microsoft Corp

GreenWise poll: will 2011 be significant for green business?

Explore Green Wise (Jan 12 2011) Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind

...e long-term fall-out from COP16 agreement plays out. What’s more, COP17, the 17th conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UN's annual climate change negotiations, in Durban coul... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Forrester Research   Europe

WSJ: Forget the UN Climate Convention -- Rethink Innovation Instead

Explore The Energy Collective (Nov 29 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear , Solar

... it. At the same time, wealthy nations shouldn't try to hammer out these kinds of agreements in the United Nations, where they get bogged down in politicking with smaller nations. Big countries should work through ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   U.N.   Europe   United Nations

Exemption Deals Possible on E.U. Airline Emissions Regulations

Explore The New York Times (Oct 11 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

...gotiations over the past two weeks at a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations body, to gain greater acceptance for E.U. policies on aviation emissions. A final resolution by the... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   U.N.   Europe   United Nations

Carbon Pharisees Or Carbon Sinners? Let’s Be Neither - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 5 2010)

...l”, according to Catalina McGregor, a firebrand who liaises between the European Commission and the United Nations on carbon emissions. At the same time, every scheme to reduce emissions and increase efficiency r... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   United Nations   Peter Judge   CRC

U.S. Falls From Internet Elite, Aims to Catch Iceland, Hungary

Explore BusinessWeek (Jun 2 2010) Networking

...today in Portugal and Japan. Internet access has triggered policy debates worldwide. Delegates at a United Nations conference that continues through June 4 in Hyderabad, India, are discussing ways to increase Web u... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

Iceland Leads Environmental Index as U.S. Falls

Explore The New York Times (Jan 27 2010) Power and Cooling

...earchers rely heavily on data that the countries themselves report to international groups like the United Nations and the World Bank. The researchers said that countries like Cuba, in ninth place, are thought to s... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Norway   United Nations

Global Climate Negotiations Resemble High Stakes Poker Game

Explore environmentalleader.com (Sep 21 2009) Construction

Comment Mentions:   U.N.   Barack Obama   Todd Stern