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Brazil’s CPFL Receives Award for Leadership in Socially & Environmentally Sustainable Development
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008From the International Finance Corporation (IFC):
Brazil’s CPFL Energia Receives IFC Client Leadership Award
CPFL Energia S.A., Brazil’s largest private electricity company, today received IFC’s Client Leadership Award, which recognizes the company’s efforts in bringing electricity to 6.3 million new customers and creating more than 7,000 jobs. The company is also making exemplary efforts to reduce energy [...]
Generating Power from Sewage Treatment Stations
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008The idea has been around awhile among industry experts: find a way to capture the methane normally released from sewage treatment plants, and utilize it to generate power while cutting or eliminating the plant’s releases of a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) — and perhaps get carbon credits for doing so. But the Sanitation Company of [...]
IDB Supports Wind Turbine Blade Factory in Brazil / BID Ajuda a expansão de fábrica de pás para turbinas eólicas no Brasil
Friday, August 8th, 2008From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
IDB finances expansion of wind turbine blades factory in Brazil
TECSIS secured US$120 million in loans
Tecnologia e Sistemas Avancados Ltda (TECSIS), a leading Brazilian manufacturer of wind rotor blades for wind power turbines is to obtain US$120 million in loans from the Inter-American Development Bank to restructure its debt and invest [...]
Why is LAC Slow to Tap Carbon Funds?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008The Dominican Republic’s Environment Secretariat (SEMARENA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently co-hosted an event in Santo Domingo designed to prompt Dominicans into tapping the many international funding opportunities for projects related, directly or directly, to climate change (”carbon markets”).
And well they should! For some [...]
LAC Solar & Wind Potential Maps Updated
Friday, November 30th, 2007In putting together standalone pages for LAC solar and wind power potential maps on my revamped main website (temasactuales.com) — announcement of its relaunch coming soon! — I discovered that many of the links in my two existing blog posts on this subject — "Mapping LAC's Solar and Wind Power Potential" and "More LAC Wind [...]
O futuro é hoje!
Thursday, September 27th, 2007It is a pleasure to welcome a second guest post by Brazilian Federal Deputy Arnaldo Jardim — for a full introduction please see his "Cidadania Ambiental." As I mentioned in that post, for those of you who cannot read Portuguese, you can always use the handy translation button in the righthand column of this blog.É [...]
Corfo Helps 53 Renewable Energy Projects in Chile / Corfo apoya 53 proyectos de energía renovable en Chile
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Synopsis in English: The Chilean Economic Development Agency (Corporación de Fomento de la Producción - CORFO) this year is co-financing 53 new renewable energy projects, 13 more than it did in 2006. Of these, 29 are wind energy projects, 14 hydraulic power, five geothermal, two biomass and three biogas. In terms of location, 10 involve [...]
Cidadania Ambiental
Thursday, September 20th, 2007It is an honor and pleasure to introduce this guest poster. Arnaldo Jardim is a civil engineer with many years of public service in Brazil, first in state executive posts (including Housing Secretary) and then as a State Deputy in São Paulo (SP), and currently as a Federal Deputy. While State Deputy he [...]
Fostering a Renewable Electricity Market in Mexico
Friday, August 17th, 2007The other day I finally managed to read the report from the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) released earlier this year, Fostering Renewable Electricity Markets in North America (full report available only in English, but there is an executive summary in Spanish). While the report examines the current status and makes recommendations for [...]
An Agreement to Promote Caribbean Renewable Energy Projects
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Temas Observation: While the parties to this agreement say it’s about all renewable energy sources — not just bioenergy — and energy efficiency, it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that this is mostly about bioenergy and that energy efficiency, solar, wind, geothermal, tidal and wave power will get short shrift. Bioenergy clearly is the [...]
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