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Pembina Institute – Policies

The Pembina Institute advocates for sustainable energy policy solutions that: take action on global warming, develop a thriving renewable energy sector, minimizes the negative impacts of oil sands and other high-impact energy development and provides smarter urban design and transportation choices for Canadians. At different times, they have advocated against the use of nuclear power [...]

Alex Salmond – Renewable energy

Alex Salmond in his 2010 New Year message highlighted the importance of sustainable development and renewable energy in Scotland and the required increase in powers of the Scottish Parliament needed to help harness Scotland’s green energy potential and therefore take full advantage of the “renewable revolution”. Earlier in December 2009, he campaigned for climate change [...]

Wildcoast – Conservation programs

Wildlands conservation One of Wildcoast’s primary missions is to preserve spectacular, undeveloped coastal areas throughout the peninsula of Baja California such as Bahía de los Ángeles, Bahía Concepción, Bahía Magdalena, Laguna San Ignacio and the North Central Pacific Coast. These are some of the most ecologically important coastal areas remaining on the planet and are [...]

Harrie Vredenburg – Career

Before joining the University of Calgary in 1989, Harrie Vredenburg was a professor at McGill University (1984-1989). He was also a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (1993-1994) and at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University (2003). He was founding director of the Haskayne School of Business’ International Resource Industries and [...]

Institute for Energy – Introduction

Institute for Energy or IE, located in Petten, the Netherlands, is one of the seven institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC). The Institute for Energy provides scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of European Community policies related to energy. The institute pays [...]

World Business Council for Sustainable Development – Operations

The Council provides a platform for companies to explore sustainable development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums, working with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations. It works on a variety of issues related to sustainable development. While its focus is on the overarching [...]

Business Action for Energy – Purpose

BAE has been established to coordinate business input into the 14th and 15th sessions (May 2006 and 2007) of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), which will focus on energy, industrial development, atmosphere and climate change, and to other important forums in that timeframe. It will do so by coordinating the delivery of international [...]

Technology development – Energy

”Energy development” is the ongoing effort to provide sustainable energy resources through knowledge, skills, and constructions. When harnessing energy from primary energy sources and converting them into more convenient secondary energy forms, such as electrical energy and cleaner fuel, both emissions (reducing pollution) and quality (more efficient use) are important. Adapted from the Wikipedia article [...]

Global Energy Basel – Introduction

Global Energy Basel is an annual conference organised by Swiss Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. It is a partnering platform for exponents of sustainable energy solutions. Representatives from industry, government, administration, science and NGO’s present exemplary solutions for secure and sustainable energy supply in the context of large infrastructure and urban development projects. Critical factors for [...]

The Venus Project – Introduction

The Venus Project, Inc is an organization that promotes Jacque Fresco’s visions of the future with the goal to improve society by moving towards what they call resource-based economy and the design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management and advanced automation, focusing on the benefits they claim it will bring to society. The [...]

Copenhagen – Education, science, research

Copenhagen has a well-developed higher education system of public universities. Most prominent among these is the University of Copenhagen. Founded in 1479, it is the oldest university in Denmark. It is a world-renowned research and teaching institution with campuses around the city and forms part of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), which is [...]

Ervin László – Work

In 1984, he was co-founder with Béla H. Bánáthy, Riane Eisler, John Corliss, Francisco Varela, Vilmos Csanyi, Gyorgy Kampis, David Loye, Jonathan Schull, and Eric Chaisson of the initially secret [http://www.thedarwinproject.com/gerg/gerg.html General Evolutionary Research Group]. Meeting behind the Iron Curtain, the group of scientists and thinkers from a variety of disciplines met in secret. Given [...]

Emissions trading – Trading systems

Kyoto Protocol The Kyoto Protocol is a 1997 international treaty which came into force in 2005. In the treaty, most developed nations agreed to legally binding targets for their emissions of the six major greenhouse gases. Emission quotas (known as “Assigned amounts”) were agreed by each participating ‘Annex 1′ country, with the intention of reducing [...]

International Institute for Sustainable Development – Knowledge Themes

IISD deals with a variety of thematic areas: * Climate Change and Energy * Economics and Sustainable Development * Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development * Information Society * International Trade * Measurement and Assessment * Natural Resources * Networks and Partnerships * Security * Tomorrow’s Sustainable Development Leaders Adapted from the Wikipedia article International Institute [...]

Greenpeace – Priorities and campaigns

On its official website, Greenpeace defines its mission as the following: Climate and energy Greenpeace was one of the first parties to formulate a sustainable development scenario for climate change mitigation in 1993. According to sociologists Marc Mormont and Christine Dasnoy Greenpeace played a significant role in raising public awareness of global warming in the [...]

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