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In April, Vladimir Putin and his ministers approved a new climate ‘doctrine’ – well, that’s how they call these things in Moscow – which for the first time officially recognizes severe risks of global warming and calls for immediate action.
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Barack Obama is prepared to stake his own political prestige on getting climate change legislation through Congress, and would be willing to intervene directly to ensure passage of America’s first law to reduce the carbon emissions that cause global warming.
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Volvo’s new plug-in hybrid by 2012
Automobile manufacturer Volvo is joining forces with Sweden-based Vattenfall, one of the world’s leading energy companies, to make a new plug-in hybrid diesel/electric vehicle.
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China Floats Talk of Solar Tariff | Solar Feeds News and Commentary Blog Network
For a country that was one of the world’s largest producers of solar power in 2007—some sources even award it second place, after Germany—China’s actual solar installation record is far less impressive.The Chinese government, a bureaucracy among bureaucracies, appears to have finally resolved to put the country’s rapidly expanding production capacities to use at home and taken a firm hand in guiding itself toward meeting its goal of having renewable energy account for 15 percent of its energy mix by 2020. According to the Wall Street Journal, it has announced that it will introduce a preferential tariff that will pay energy companies that use solar power for their generating capacity.
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HP Makes Big Additions to Eco Solutions Program | GreenerComputing
Hewlett Packard executives unveiled several new additions to its Eco Solutions green IT program, including a new line of servers, printing hardware and software solutions, an upcoming “telepresence-lite” program and new company-wide environmental commitments.
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A useful summary of Waxman-Markey
The Energy and Commerce Committee finally released a summary (here) of the American Clean Energy and Security Act as reported by the Committee on May 21 by a vote of 33 to 25. Here are the key provisions:
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From January 2006 to November 2008, Yahoo’s share price slid from $43.21 to $9.39.
Yahoo shareholders suffered an astounding loss of $47.5 billion in market cap value.
Was that the true cost of Yahoo’s mistaken China policy? We could quibble over a billion or even ten billion dollars.
But the fact remains that employees working at a company that has been publicly accused of being moral pygmies and acting as a police informant for a repressive Chinese government won’t be highly motivated. No matter how many free doughnuts you provide.
In a highly competitive environment such as the Internet market, a demoralized workforce will place any company at a serious disadvantage.
People spend much of their life at work and they will work that much harder at a company that is morally and ethically responsible.
Yahoo’s experience creates a great lesson for corporate leaders: Do the right thing – its good for your shareholders. And what’s good for your shareholders also happens to be your fiduciary duty.
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