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Hydropower increases reduce CO2
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global
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- November 4 2012
The International Energy Agency released a report October 29 finding that doubling hydropower capacity by mid-century could reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel plants by up to 3 billion MT annually
Energy security index
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global
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- October 21 2012
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce unveiled October 15 its first international energy security risk index, placing oil-rich Mexico at the top and the United States in seventh place
World Bank ups RE lending
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global
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- October 21 2012
The World Bank announced October 16 that it allocated a record 44 percent of its annual energy lending to renewable energy projects during fiscal year 2012, 43 percent of that to hydropower
Public-private sustainable energy leaders
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global
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- September 30 2012
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon named September 24 Kandeh Yumkella as director-general of the United Nations Development Organization, chair of UN-Energy, and chief executive of the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, a United Nations public-private partnership campaign to globally expand renewable energy access
WTO rules on complaint against Canada
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Canada, Global
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- September 30 2012
A World Trade Organization dispute panel issued a confidential interim ruling September 20 supporting a complaint filed by the European Union and Japan claiming that aspects of Ontario’s green energy program discriminate against foreign suppliers of equipment for renewable energy generation facilities
Fossil fuel subsidies rising
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global
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- August 26 2012
The Worldwatch Institute released a research paper August 21 concluding that progress by the Group of 20 nations toward reducing fossil fuel subsidies has been minimal
China rare earth materials support
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- China, Global
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- July 15 2012
China’s Ministry of Finance announced July 4 that it will subsidize 42 research projects on rare earth, rare metal, and new materials as part of its effort to strengthen is position as an industry leader
WTO rare earth dispute resubmitted
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- China, European Union, Global, Japan, USA
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- July 15 2012
The European Union, Japan, and the United States placed July 13 a second request on the World Trade Organization’s July 23 Dispute Settlement Body agenda asking the organization to establish a dispute panel to rule whether China’s restrictions on rare earths exports violate global trade rules
EU technical support
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- European Union, Global
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- June 24 2012
European Union Commissioner Andris Piebalgs announced at the Rio20 summit June 20 that the European Union will create an EU Technical Assistance Facility, initially worth $62.6 million over the next two years to provide access to sustainable energy services to 500 million people by 2030
Corporate water sustainability
- Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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- Global
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- June 24 2012
During the June 15-18 Corporate Sustainability Forum in Rio de Janeiro, forty five CEOs representing global companies that are significant water users sent world governments a statement that calls on them to make global water sustainability and safety top policy priorities
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- Author - Sarah Litke
- Workarea - Energy & Natural Resources
- Jurisdiction - Global