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A new way to deal with CO2 emissions... probably giving benefits to over populated fast-growing economies like India and China

When it comes to climate change, Bangladesh--with 140 million mostly poor residents and low-lying coastal geography--is among the most vulnerable nations on Earth. As part of the country's effort to prepare and adapt, Bangladesh government agencies are attempting to take global projections of climate change and turn them into highly local predictions.

Reality or virtual reality:  replacing air transport by high speed electrical rail systems

One of the UK's leading housebuilders, Miller Homes, claims to have built a zero carbon house as part of the effort to combat climate change. Zero carbon means no emissions of the global warming gas, carbon dioxide. Over the next few years the rules on how green homes have to be are going to become gradually tougher. And there are warnings that they will push up the cost of buying a new home.

Assume for the moment that Congress will not pass a carbon cap-and-trade scheme this year but that it does pass an energy bill that streamlines the siting of new transmission lines and requires utilities to get a certain minimum percentage of their electricity from clean sources. What opportunities would this open for AEP? On the efficiency side it would allow me to put capital to work on GridSmart [AEP's smart-grid initiative]. And instead of being a net buyer of renewable energy from third-party generators, I'd begin to be a net builder of renewables. It's the same issue as always: I'm satisfying a state or federal renewable requirement, and my customers' rates are going to go up anyways, so why shouldn't my shareholders get the benefit of our building that new generating capacity rather than buying the electricity on the market? If I'm just a net buyer in the market, I'm forced to buy solar power at 30 cents, and that goes through to my customers, and I don't think that's fair. I want to make sure my shareholders and my customers get a pretty good shake out of this.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Departments of Agriculture and Energy held a press conference yesterday about the Obama administration's proposal to increase research on biofuels and stimulate their commercialization. The Energy and Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 mandates that 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels be produced by 2022.