With state leaders like Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown stealing much of the spotlight for their efforts to make California the leader in carbon emissions mitigation, the actions of smaller jurisdictions often go unnoticed, despite the fact that they are often on the front lines of climate change mitigation strategies.
Like no environmental issue before it, global warming has hordes of profit-minded public and private investors on the same page as environmentalists, seeking the next great wave of technological innovation. In order to detail ongoing green investment trends, VerdeXchange News was pleased to speak with Allan Emkin, founder and managing director of Pension Consulting Alliance, an organization that helps public pension and private equity investors find the best possible returns in an emerging market still full of untapped potential.
At last month's U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has put forward one of the world's most ambitious agendas for green urban living, appealed the world's leaders to engage with the leadership of local governments.
AB 32 Author Fran Pavley leads a panel at the GreenXchange Global Marketplace Conference about legislation driving the emergence of the new green market for sustainability, featuring Nancy Sutley, Pedro Pizzaro, and Lorraine White.
Global Green USA President and CEO Matt Petersen explains Global Green's mission to shift society’s relationship with the planet.
With the passage of AB 1493 in 2002, California became the country’s leader on climate change legislation. Since then, California has met stiff resistance to the implementation of AB 1493 from the U.S. EPA, which has delayed a waiver needed by the state to enforce the law’s stringent tailpipe emissions requirements.
Los Angeles provides an interesting case study for sustainable urban living—in such a vast and diverse city, solutions don’t come easily. Proving the sincerity of its sustainability efforts, L.A. recently approved a green building code to supplement ambitious smart growth practices, and the city’s efforts to promote recycling has led the nation for years.
The L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has the daunting challenge of providing public transportation solutions for a region obsessed with the automobile. Added to the issues bred by such a stubborn cultural milieu are regional challenges such as the largest port complex in the country, poor air quality, and oscillating state funding for new projects.
With a constellation of regional airports, including one of the country’s busiest, LAX, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) will play a crucial role in the greening of air travel in the United States.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Conference of Mayors held its first-ever Climate Protection Summit—a chance for mayors around the country to parade their green accomplishments and challenge each other to do more.
Public concern over global warming has presented companies of all sizes with a mandate to account for, and reduce, their greenhouse gas emissions. Still emerging, however, are the legal and fiscal implications of carbon emissions caused by corporations.
Martin Nesbit, the head of the National Climate Change Policy Division for the U.K. Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reviews the lessons already learned by Europe regarding climate change regulation.
John Ashton,U.K. foreign secretary's special representative for climate change, details what he sees as an opportunity for the largest public-private partnership in history.
Few former planners and architects tout more caché than Jaime Lerner, who, as mayor of Curitiba and governor of the state of Parana in Brazil, implemented groundbreaking and widely imitated improvements to infrastructure and the built environment.
Excerpts from the "Technology Insight—Developments in New and Exciting Markets" panel at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in London, which surveyed emerging technologies and new approaches to renewable energy.
Questions remain regarding the impacts of climate change on water supplies, but technological advances in water reuse and desalination clearly offer compelling solutions for global water challenges.
John Hutton secretary of state for the U.K.'s Department of Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform details some of the ways that the U.K. and California have served to develop complimentary, groundbreaking legislation and technologies that are leading the world in the fight against climate change.
Barry Berman, CEO of AgriPower, describes his company's waste-conversion technology, which manufactures energy from forms of waste produced by the spectrum of the world's activities.
Many of the largest cities in the United States are competing to be the "greenest" city in the country. While the implementation of many of these efforts remains in development, the race never would have started without the leadership of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, who forged the way for the first cities to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in the face of federal indifference.