For its 2012 report, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said that U.S. companies purchased more voluntary carbon offsets than any other country, to support American climate change projects in the absence of a U.S. federal cap and trade scheme.
Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and an expert on dead zones who didn't participate in the study, said its findings are consistent with climate change scenarios she projects for the upper Mississippi River basin, where flooding caused high algae concentrations two years ago.
Firms such as Covanta see worries about climate change as a spur to waste-to-energy projects.
By adding climate change adaptation and fish and wildlife benefits to their highway projects, local and state agencies can stretch their highway budgets further by tapping into federal wildlife funds, said Corrie Miller, executive director of the Ausable River Association in the northeastern Adirondacks.
The number of projects submitted to the Department of Energy and Climate Change and given development approval almost doubled between 2011 and 2012.
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This is why one of the most vital projects of this new century, defined by climate change and growing energy and resource scarcity, is to figure out a way to build these variables back into our economic system.
But Japan struggles with environmental issues like climate change brought about in part by decades of rampant construction driven by massive public works projects.
The new standards will be based only on projects that can be certified, including flexible schemes agreed under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
The nature of the cuts became clear this week with an announcement from the Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA) that feed-in tariff rates would be reduced by 40 percent for those projects installed after February 1, 2013 and before January 31st, 2014.
Up on the committee corridor there's the first meeting of the new Energy and Climate Change sub-committee on local energy (2pm) looking at the contribution small and medium-sized projects could make to the UK's energy supply, and at barriers to medium-sized and community-owned projects.
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