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December 16, 2009
The tax credits will benefit manufacturers of wind, solar, electric vehicle and other renewable energy products....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/White-House-Proposes-$5-Billion-in-Renewable-Energy-Tax-Credits_23584.html December 11, 2009
Genencor (Rochester, NY), a division of Danisco, has introduced a novel enzyme-based process for bleaching denim that uses significantly less water and energy than established...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Genencor-Novozymes-Unveil-Greener-Processes-for-Fabrics_23485.html December 10, 2009
During the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen this week we have witnessed climate activists criticising carbon trading as the mechanism of choice for achieving...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Emissions-Trading-When-Agendas-Clash_23363.html December 9, 2009
The Copenhagen climate summit is well underway. The chattering classes around the world-are chattering increasingly about climate change. There’s a view among some of the...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Do-You-Belong-to-the-Religion-of-Climate-Change_23364.html December 9, 2009
A group of 25 companies from France and Brazil, including Rhodia, have made a joint commitment to develop industrial partnerships aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG)...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/French-and-Brazilian-Firms-Collaborate-to-Cut-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions_23361.html December 8, 2009
Myriant says the DOE identified succinic acid as one of the top 12 chemicals, by market size, that can be produced from biomass....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Myriant-Awarded-DOE-Funds-for-Biobased-Succinic-Acid-Project_23356.html December 7, 2009
Construction of the Y2.6 billion ($29 million) plant began in early November at Mitsubishi Chemicals' Mizushima, Japan site and is expected to be completed in July of 2010....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/JGC-Mitsubishi-Chemical-Building-Pilot-Plant-to-Test-New-Propylene-Technology_23305.html December 7, 2009
Delegates from almost 200 countries have today started two weeks of negotiations to agree on a response to anthropogenic climate change at a United Nations summit meeting in...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Hopenhagen-Climate-Summit-Opens-with-Optimism-for-a-Far-reaching-Agreement_23292.html December 4, 2009
The Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF; New Delhi) says India will voluntarily reduce its carbon emission intensity by 20%-25% from the 2005 levels, by 2020. India will...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/India-to-Reduce-Emission-Intensity-Refuses-to-Accept-Legally-Binding-Emission-Cut-Target_23277.html December 4, 2009
International Finance Corporation (IFC; Washington), a member of the World Bank group, says IFC and Standard & Poor’s (S&P) are launching the world’s first Carbon...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/IFC-and-S-and-P-Launch-Carbon-Index-for-Emerging-Markets_23276.html December 4, 2009
The United Nations Panel on Climate Change (UNPCC) has begun an investigation into allegations that leading climatologists at the Climate Research Institute (CRI; University of East...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/UN-Investigates-Suppression-of-Data-at-U-K-Climate-Institute-Climate-Change-Skeptics-Seize-on-the-Opportunity_23275.html December 3, 2009
A recent proposal by the Danish government that all countries should meet a deadline of capping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2025 “is clearly unacceptable to us,”...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/India-Rejects-Danish-Draft-Climate-Proposal_23237.html December 3, 2009
About 18 of Siam Cement Group’s (SCG; Bangkok) 20 petchem projects at the Map Ta Phut industrial estate in Thailand will be halted following a previously announced court order to...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Court-Ruling-Halts-Siam-Cements-18-Projects-at-Map-Ta-Phut_23234.html December 2, 2009
The heads of the world’s leading international financial institutions today called for a comprehensive agreement to combat climate change at this month’s United Nations...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/International-Financial-Institutions-Back-Comprehensive-Agreement-at-Copenhagen_23217.html December 1, 2009
Nippon Shokubai (Tokyo) says it is at an advanced stage of developing an acrylic acid manufacturing process based on glycerine, a byproduct obtained in the manufacture of biodiesel...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Shokubai-Advances-Glycerine-to-Acrylic-Acid-Process_23164.html December 1, 2009
Total Petrochemicals says Futerro, its 50-50 joint venture with biotechnology company Galactic (Brussels), has started up production at its 1,500 m.t./year bio-based polylactic acid...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Futerro-Starts-PLA-Unit-Bayer-Boosts-Polyisocyanates_23175.html November 30, 2009
Stopping the production and resulting emissions to the atmosphere of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, along with a handful of other measures unrelated to carbon dioxide emissions...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/Banning-HFCs-Mooted-as-Fast-Route-to-Climate-Protection_23007.html November 30, 2009
The U.S. government has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions “in the range of 17%” below 2005 levels, or the equivalent of a 5.5% cut below 1990 levels...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/U-S-China-Set-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-Reduction-Targets-U-N-Says-its-Too-Late-for-Political-Maneuvering_22999.html November 25, 2009
Leave aside for a moment the bickering between former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair and current prime minister Gordon Brown and the fact that the U.K. has a whopping sense of...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/How-Green-is-the-New-EU-President_22955.html November 25, 2009
The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation, aimed at curbing U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, will result in a slight reduction in gross domestic product (GDP) growth through...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/CBO-Waxman-Markey-Will-Moderately-Reduce-U-S-GDP_22965.html |
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