CARBON-BALANCE

UP TO DATE WITH  THE NEW CARBON BALANCE GLOBAL FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE - THE GLOBAL CLIMATE FUND (GCF) http://www.greenclimate.fund/projects/browse-projects http://www.greenclimate.fund/projects/portfolio PLEDGED 10.3 billion SIGNED 10.1 billion COMMITTED 2.2 billion TOTAL VALUE 7.5 billion

AND WE ARE BACK !!! Please excuse the lag in posts on this blog - It's amazing how time runs, when the singular focus is on getting ahead professionally. So much has happened in the world of Carbon Balance during this hiatus, especially in the area of Global financing of  Carbon Balancing Suffice to state that I have had the time to think about the direction of this blog moving forward. To this end the focus will be on four (4) main themes. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Success Stories in Developing Countries New and Existing - Outside the Box Technologies  Financing of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Best Practices in Policy and Implementation of Financing of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy The goal is to have a post a week on each of these Themes.

BIOCHAR -  THE WAY FORWARD - WHERE IT ALL STARTED The Secret of El Dorado (The discovery of Biochar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqp_H95wjPE

UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market UNITED NATIONS An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam. At a meeting this week that ended Friday, the executive board of the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism said that five chemical plants in China would no longer qualify for funding as so-called carbon offset credits until the environmentalists' claims can be further investigated. The "CDM" credits have been widely used in the carbon trading markets of the European Union, Japan and other nations that signed onto the 1997 Kyoto Protocol requiring mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases. Rather than cut their own carbon emissions, industrialized nations can buy the credits which then pay developing countries to cut their greenhouse gases instead. But environmentalists say rich n...

Some rich countries are seeking new rules under the UN climate convention that campaigners say would allow them to gain credit for "business as usual". This is all related to land-use change, which can either release or absorb carbon, depending mainly on whether forests are planted or chopped down.

Interesting news leading up to the weekend. What is the implication for future global climate talks? ...the Indian government will established a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor the effects of climate change on the world’s ‘third ice cap’, and an ‘Indian IPCC’ to use ‘climate science’ to assess the impact of global warming throughout the country.

The Case for OTEC in Florida

This is worth exploring especially in small islands...More of a discussion to follow