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Russia to join nuclear agency

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global, Russia
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  • May 27 2012

The Russian Federation completed formalities May 23 to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency starting January 1, 2013

Investment opportunities high in urban developing countries

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • October 2 2011

World Bank Sustainable Energy Director Vijay Iyer said September 27 that the greatest opportunities for sustainable energy investment exist in developing countries as projected population growth will increase energy demand

Report says renewable sources account for one-fourth of world's power capacity

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • July 31 2011

A report from the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) noted that renewable sources supplied 20 percent of the world's final energy consumption by the end of 2010 and one-quarter of global power capacity from all sources by early 2011

UNEP report on temperature rise

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • November 27 2011

The United Nations Environment Program released a report arguing that by increasing the use of non-fossil sources of energy from 18.5 in 2005 to 28 in 2020; by increasing biomass use from 10.5 to 17 over the same period; and by increasing the use of renewable energy to 9, it would be possible to stave off a 3.6 degree Fahrenheit rise in the earth’s temperature

IEA renewable energy report

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • November 27 2011

On November 23, the International Energy Agency’s renewable energy division unveiled “Deploying Renewables 2011” analyzing the cost effectiveness of renewable energy policy in 56 different countries

Concentrated solar to benefit developing countries

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • August 21 2011

The World Bank released a report last week that concluded that solar power systems could be important in building low-carbon energy systems in developing countries

Renewable energy becoming cost competitive

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • November 27 2011

The International Energy Agency released a report November 23 finding that renewable energy technology is becoming cost competitive and is the fastest growing sector of the energy mix

IEA renewable chief critical of US renewable policies

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global, USA
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  • November 27 2011

Paolo Frankl, head of the International Energy Agency’s renewable energy division, criticized the United States’ lack of any long-term federal policy to support renewable energy

WTO panelists appointed

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global
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  • October 16 2011

The World Trade Organization appointed three panelists October 7 to rule on a complaint filed by Japan against alleged subsidies in a green energy program in Ontario, Canada

U.S. rejects escape hatch

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Global, USA
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  • September 25 2011

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said September 19 that the United States would oppose allowing China and other fast-developing countries to opt out of any future climate change treaty if they did not receive sufficient financial assistance from industrialized nations