On Monday, August 16th, China presented irrevocable evidence that it is indeed on the fast track toward becoming a formidable world power. With its GDP amounting to $1.34 trillion, the country was able to overtake Japan as the second largest economy in the world.
Currently, Japan’s overall economic output totals $1.29 trillion. Its economy grew 0.4 [...]
In response to deadlocked talks on a new international agreement to fight global warming, a new draft that circulated Tuesday at the United Nations sponsored climate change conference does not feature any targets for carbon cuts or financing.
The new draft also fails to provide any long-term goals for emissions reductions, the peaking of emissions, and [...]
The New York Times has an extremely informative piece by Keith Bradsher on China’s budding solar energy boom, a trend that is certainly worth paying attention to. The article points to the economic conditions in China that have made it possible for Chinese solar companies like Suntech Power Holdings to thrive in the emerging market.
Competitive [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 26th, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Tagged with: China, clean energy, clean tech, economy, energy, First Solar, funding, green energy, green jobs, investing, Q cells, Solar Energy, startup, Suntech Power Holdings, sustainability
In today’s New York Times, David Barboza reported a surprising rate of growth for China’s economy. After last year’s huge drop in stocks and stall in the fundamentals of the Chinese economy, a 7.9% rate of growth for the nation’s G.D.P. has surprised many experts, and also spurred suspicions that China’s Bureau of Statistics has [...]
Despite disagreements in what role each nation should take in efforts to lower carbon emissions, the U.S. and China, the world’s biggest producers of greenhouse gases, announced a joint clean energy research center today. With headquarters in both countries and initial funding of $15 million, the environmental venture will focus on studying coal, green construction [...]
Filed under: Community, Environment, News on July 15th, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
Tagged with: carbon emissions, China, clean energy, economy, Environment, innovation, jobs, private sector, US
The Financial Times is reporting that Secreatary of Treasury Timothy Geithner has asked Saudi Arabia, the Middle East’s wealthiest and oil-rich nation, to increase its contributions to the International Monetary Fund in hopes of further propping up the fund’s ability to help struggling nations in the region. The primary purpose of Geithner’s trip to Saudi [...]
Filed under: Business, News on July 15th, 2009 @ 10:00 am
Tagged with: China, economy, funding, G-20, global, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Saudi Arabia, stimulus spending, Tim Geithner
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.