'EcoNegocios'

Matt Daily

Electric utility Exelon Corp said it will buy Deere & Co's wind power business for about $860 million, expanding its portfolio of carbon-free electricity generation

WASHINGTON, U.S. September 2, 2010.- Exelon, the largest U.S. nuclear power operator, said the acquisition of John Deere Renewables will add 735 operating megawatts (MW) of clean energy to its portfolio, which currently includes about 1,000 MW of renewable power.

El gobernador Fidel Herrera Beltrán acudió ayer a conocer los trabajos de ampliación que se realizan en el ingenio San Nicolás, en los cuales el grupo Florida Crystals invierte 60 millones de dólares y da empleo actualmente a cerca de 380 obreros y a 120 contratistas de esta región centro de Veracruz

VERACRUZ, Ver. 2 septiembre 2010.- El director de Operaciones y vicepresidente del grupo Florida Crystals, Ricardo Antonio Lima, destacó que en los hechos se tendrá un nuevo ingenio, completo, moderno y eficiente, que será el primero del país que exporte y venda energía a la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) a partir de enero del 2011.

Ésta y otras son las preguntas que intentan responder más de 40 ministros de gobierno reunidos este jueves en Ginebra

GINEBRA, Suiza; 2 septiembre 2010.- Más de 40 ministros de gobierno -o sus representantes- se reúnen este jueves en Ginebra para discutir cómo financiar las medidas que se necesitan poner en práctica para frenar el cambio climático.

Increasing renewable and clean energy statewide could spur economic growth and create thousands of jobs in Texas over the next 10 years, a new report states
 
HARLINGEN, U.S. August 30, 2010.- Former Texas deputy chief comptroller Billy C. Hamilton, speaking at Texas State Technical College Wednesday, laid out the findings of his new economic study on renewable energy programs in Texas, outlining his report funded by the Austin-based Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation.

Alister Doyle

Aid promises from rich nations to help poor countries slow global warming are reaching the $30 billion goal agreed in Copenhagen but analysts say much of that is old funding dressed up as new pledges.

OSLO, Norway; August 30, 2010.- Officially, the promises total $29.8 billion, Reuters calculations show, apparently meeting a pledge of "new and additional" funds "approaching $30 billion" for 2010-12 made at the U.N. summit in Copenhagen in December.

David Fogarty

An Australian carbon services firm has signed a deal aimed at protecting tropical forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as boosting renewable energy there, a senior company official said this week.

SINGAPORE, Republic of Singapore; August 28, 2010.- Shift2Neutral and its partners would help value the carbon storage from forest and land protection, certify carbon related services to communities in the DRC and help sell certified carbon offsets.

Food and Drug administration begins 60-day process to approve animal critics call a 'frankenfish'

WASHINGTON, USA; August 27, 2010.- US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption.

La inversión es superior a 2 mil millones de dólares, destinados a proyectos de infraestructura

MÉXICO, D.F. 26 agosto 2010.- Con una visión ambiental, el Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (BDAN) ha beneficiado a la zona fronteriza de México con obras superiores a 2 mil millones de dólares, destinados a proyectos de infraestructura.

Michael Szabo

The World Bank has defended its investment in chemical plants accused by green groups of raising production of greenhouse gas HFC-23 with the aim of incinerating it to get extra carbon offsets worth millions of dollars.

LONDON, UK; August 24, 2010.- Approved under the Kyoto Protocol's $2.7 billion Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme, 19 plants mainly in China and India are issued offsets by the UN for incinerating the refrigerant waste gas called hydrofluorocarbon-23.

La venta de tecnologías verdes para generar electricidad o hacer más limpios los procesos industriales romperá records de ventas este año.

MUNICH, Alemania; 24 agosto 2010.- Un ejemplo de ello es que entre octubre de 2009 y octubre de 2010 la compañía alemana Siemens habrá recibido 25 mil millones de euros, equivalentes a 412 mil millones de pesos, gracias a la venta de inventos como turbinas para generar electricidad con viento, paneles solares, vehículos eléctricos y nuevas plantas termoeléctricas que evitan el desperdicio de combustibles fósiles, informó en entrevista con Crónica el vocero mundial de esa compañía, Constantin Birnstiel.

Ahmed Djoghlaf says nations risk economic collapse and loss of culture if it does not protect the natural world

LONDON, U.K. August 18, 2010.- Britain and other countries face a collapse of their economies and loss of culture if they do not protect the environment better, the world's leading champion of nature has warned.

Mario Mendoza

El crecimiento de la mancha urbana sin una planeación adecuada ha traído consigo efectos negativos en aire, el agua y el suelo, además de ser una generación que consume recursos naturales de forma desmedida

MÉXICO, D.F. 17 agosto 2010.- Prácticas poco amigables con el medio ambiente han hecho que se haga un replanteamiento en cuanto al diseño de las grandes ciudades, los servicios que sus habitantes requieren, un equilibrio con el medio ambiente, además del uso inteligente del agua, transporte y energía.

La cantidad de radiación solar que recibe México diariamente sería suficiente como para abastecer de electricidad a todo el país e incluso se podrían generar excedentes para vender fuera de las fronteras. Esta fue una de las más importantes conclusiones del Simposio Internacional sobre Energías Renovables y Sustentabilidad que concluyó en Temixco, Morelos, y con el cual se celebraron los 25 años del Centro de Investigación en Energía (CIE), de la UNAM

MÉXICO, D.F. 13 agosto 2010.- Los especialistas de México y Estados Unidos reunidos en el CIE-UNAM coincidieron en que es urgente que México invierta más recursos financieros a las tecnologías para captar y convertir la energía solar, pero también para transportarla desde regiones áridas al resto del país.

Felicity Barringer

Congress focuses on whether the Environmental Protection Agency should go where no federal regulators have gone before and regulate greenhouse gases. But the agency did something more prosaic on Monday, albeit something it has not done effectively for the last 15 years or so: it put more than 100 cement kilns on notice that they will have to spend almost $1 billion annually to clean up the pollution they put into the atmosphere.

WASHINGTON, U.S. August 11, 2010.- That’s the agency’s estimate. A statement by the Portland Cement Association, a trade group, put the cost at “several billion dollars.”

Zhou Xin and Simon Rabinovitch

Three Chinese ministries will soon submit a proposal for an environmental tax on a trial basis, the China Business News reported

BEIJING, China; August 6, 2010.- The tax would be tested in four largely rural provinces, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Gansu, the newspaper said. The finance ministry, environmental protection ministry and tax administration were set to make the proposal to the State Council, or cabinet, it added.

Nina Chestney

A U.N. climate finance group is studying funding sources to support countries vulnerable to climate change, including a financial institution tax, it said at talks in Bonn

BONN,Germany; August 6, 2010.- Nicholas Stern, professor at the London School of Economics, said the group was analyzing both public and private sources of funding, including fund flows from financial institutions, revenues from carbon taxes, carbon permit auctions and financial transaction taxes.

Alexandra Valencia

Ecuador signed a deal on Tuesday creating a trust fund to hold donations from Germany and other rich nations willing to pay the Andean country to refrain from drilling for oil in an Amazon wildlife reserve

QUITO, Ecuador; August 5, 2010.- The plan, drawn up with the United Nations, applies to a 675-square-mile part of Yasuni National Park called the ITT section. Keeping oil firms out of the area would avoid dumping 410 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air, Ecuador says.

Greece said on Wednesday it will invest 12 billion euros ($15.59 billion) on environmental and energy projects over the next five years to boost its ailing economy and create new jobs.

ATHENS, Greece; July 30, 2010.- The projects, ranging from renewables to town planning, may attract an additional 32 billion euros of private funds and create 192,000 jobs, Environment Minister Tina Birbili said.

Aunque en el año 2004 las compañías que liberan mucho dióxido de carbono (CO2) llegaron a pagar hasta 18 euros por cada tonelada de carbono capturada a través de programas de reforestación o de conservación de bosques y selvas, en los últimos años el precio de esta herramienta de compensación de contaminantes ha caído a menos de la mitad

MÉXICO, D.F. 28 julio 2010.- Gabriela Muñoz Meléndez, doctora en ciencias ambientales del Imperial College de Londres y actual investigadora del Colegio de la Frontera Norte, en Tijuana, informó durante el Taller de Periodismo Científico Jack F. Ealy, en La Jolla, California, que actualmente se paga entre seis y ocho euros por cada tonelada de carbono capturado o retenido al evitar tala de árboles.

Hip hop performances, an eco-friendly dance floor and dinner aboard a hybrid ferry were among the more unusual highlights of the Tunza North American (Tunzana) Youth Network Conference, held from July 23-25 in California

WASHINGTON, D.C. / BERKELEY, California July 27, 2010.- The Tunzana Network, established in 2008, provides an opportunity for North American youth to showcase their environmental work on a regional and international platform, while also connecting them to UNEP and the global Tunza Network. This year, a select group of seventeen young environmental leaders from the United States and Canada met at the University of California at Berkeley to participate in the event, which was organised by UNEP's Regional Office for North America (UNEP RONA).