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VC investment in green technologies totaled $4.85 billion in 356 deals in 2009, down from 2008's $7.6 billion, though the number of deals in 2009 exceeded the previous year.
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Portfolio 21, a 10-year-old mutual fund investing in green companies around the world, recently offered 10 guidelines for investing in 2010.
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Proven, existing efficiency technologies -- in everything from lighting to climate control and more -- can unlock the untapped reserves of efficiency gains buried in many real estate holdings, according to a new report.
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If all of the finalists’ proposed businesses were realized, they would save more than one trillion gallons of water annually.
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The climate treaty announcement is legitimately catching some heat for being too little, too late. The enormity of the crisis cries out for strong binding pollution reduction targets by all countries and massive infusions of public and private capital to catalyze a fast-track transition to a low-carbon economy.
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On buses, in hallways, in long lines outside the Bella Center, participants are all talking about the explosion in financing and carbon trading that is needed to dramatically reduce the pollution causing climate change.
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Conditional backing for E.U. funding proposal offered, in return for Chinese concessions on greenhouse gas emissions transparency
by James Murray
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With help from property management firm Cushman & Wakefield, the 38-story First Market Tower in San Francisco has earned LEED-Gold certification and become the largest existing building on the U.S. West Coast to receive such a rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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In discussions with our clients and other observers at the Copenhagen climate change conference, I have heard many quote some variation of the following: COP15 is not a climate change negotiation, it's a trade negotiation.
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Business leaders taking part in the first half of the climate conference know they can take practical steps that deliver emissions much more rapidly than broad targets set by policy makers.
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At the end of his life, George Orwell wrote a brilliant short essay called "You and the A-Bomb." In two pages, he summed up why the A-Bomb changed his life in industrial society. It is the same now with climate change. You and climate change are forever different.
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I'm reading Gavin Menzies' fascinating book "1421" and was thinking about the challenges of early explorers: How do you get somewhere without a compass or a map? And if you could have only one, which would you prefer?
by Rob Watson
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I'm reading Gavin Menzies' fascinating book "1421" and was thinking about the challenges of early explorers: How do you get somewhere without a compass or a map? And if you could have only one, which would you prefer?
by Rob Watson
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San Francisco businesses and residents have composted more than 620,000 tons of food and other scraps since 1996 through the city’s green cart program, whose processed material is now used at almost 200 Northern California vineyards and farms.<br />
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As 2009 sputters to an end, it's perhaps unsurprising that we're in the midst of a torrent of studies and findings that all offer some roadmap of where to go from here.
by Joel Makower
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A new report explores a variety of climate tipping points, explaining what it would take to reach and pass them, how close we are to them, and what the consequences would be, particularly for the insurance sector.<br />
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Companies large and small, and in every industry, still hold on to a number of surprising misconceptions about the risks and rewards of implementing sustainability practices. Here's how to dispel those myths.
by Vijay Kanal
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How can you persuade your finance department to invest in finding your company's business case for sustainability? It's not easy, but it can be done. Part 2 of this three-part post on building a business case for sustainability tells you how.
by David Bent
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The banking giant's new commercial banking group focused on clean technology firms will add to the $600 million the company has already dedicated to the market.
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In an effort to address social equity issues in the sustainability movement, the Green Building Foundation has launched with a goal of "bringing the environmental, economic and social advantages of green buildings to those who can least afford them,"<br />
the new organization says.
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Why is wind-power behemoth GE bothering to invest a relatively tiny amount of money in a small company that makes backyard wind turbines?
by Marc Gunther
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The International Energy Agency on Tuesday called on world leaders to strike a deal to address climate change, warning that the current business-as-usual scenario is unsustainable and will lead to skyrocketing energy demand, price spikes and up to a 6 degree temperature rise.
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The rapidly changing landscape of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research providers received another major update this week as <a href='http://www.riskmetrics.com/' style=''>RiskMetrics Group</a> announced the acquisition of <a href='http://www.kld.com/' style=''>KLD Research & Analytics</a>. The acquisition, which has been widely anticipated for a month, follows RiskMetrics' purchase of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, like KLD a provider of ESG research, in February.
by Robert Kropp
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A slew of new renewable energy and energy efficiency projects funded by the Department of Energy in the past week adds another $531 million to the stimulus funds already handed out this year.
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Not much good has come of the Great Recession, but a recent day-long event showed that investors are at least starting to think more thoroughly about risk and sustainability in their portfolios.
by Marc Gunther