Utilities using renewable energy ought to be rewarded.
Byline: Bob Linahan For The Register-Guard The subject of climate change is a heated one, literally and figuratively. And it is particularly hot at the federal level right now. Because of this, several SUB board members traveled with me to Washington, D.C., to meet with...

UN chief supports De Venecia on debt-for-equity.
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gave his "all-out support" to the debt-for-equity program to help propel anti-poverty programs aligned with the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) among the world's poor nations, former House Speaker Jose de Venecia said Sunday following a one-on-one meeting with the UN...

Offsets have a place in carbon control efforts.
Byline: Bob Doppelt For The Register-Guard Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and John Warner, R-Va., are promoting a bill to establish a national cap-and-trade program that would regulate carbon emissions from industry. One provision would allow emitters to meet their emission reduction targets by purchasing carbon "offset" credits....

Clean air for sale. (Investing In The Environment).
CAN YOU PUT a price on the value of forests or wetlands? Adam Davis thinks you can, and that doing so will help save precious ecosystems. The California businessman dreams of starting a Conservation Exchange that would allow people to trade in the beneficial natural processes that...

RP told to look into other biofuel plant source.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The Philippines should look into a study funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on the use of a potential biodiesel plant called "pongamia" that may perhaps be suitably planted in the country and bring about an abundant, nature-friendly, and...

How carbon cutbacks will affect the economy.
Byline: Bob Doppelt For The Register-Guard To prevent severe climate change, greenhouse gas emissions must stabilize in less than 10 years and then be reduced by 80 percent or more by midcentury. Some people say the costs of such actions will devastate the economy. Others say cutting...

Saving energy on state agenda; Patrick, at MIT, talks renewables.
Byline: John J. Monahan BOSTON - For the state's top officials, this Earth Day was all about one thing - energy - as they announced an aggressive set of state programs and policies kicking in to promote power conservation and the wider use of biofuels, solar power...

DENR approves 10 CDM projects to raise $ 2.1 M in carbon credits.
Byline: Melody M. Aguiba The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has issued letters of approval (LOA) for 10 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects that are generating around $2.1 million in carbon credits. DENR estimates that the 10 projects, seven of which involve waste...

Manure could be a cash crop; Study of turning waste into energy.
Byline: Sandy Meindersma RUTLAND - If everything works as well as projected, the Jordan Dairy Farm may one day make money from its manure as well as from its milk. A three-month feasibility study at the farm concluded that an on-site anaerobic digester and generator...

ADB calls for more funding to reduce climate change impact.
Byline: EDU LOPEZ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has called for more funding for projects that will reduce the adverse impact of climate change in the Asia-Pacific region. Speaking at the fourth ministerial meeting on climate change in Chiba, Japan, vice-president Ursula Schaefer-Preuss said there...