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  • The Future of Energy

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    08 Jun 2011 – Audio/Video

    Jeff Erikson interprets the latest survey on the future of energy – examining how governments will proceed, how experts perceive nuclear and what role energy will play in corporate sustainability strategies in the wake of Fukushima Daiichi.

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  • Issue Brief: Distributed Generation

    Taking Control of the Power

    10 Aug 2010 – Article

    Recent changes in technology and regulations, and an increasing concern over the environmental impacts of large-scale power plants, have driven new interest – and investment – in distributed generation.

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  • Our Number's Up and It's 350

    08 Oct 2009 – Conversation

    John Elkington talks to Bill McKibben, the man behind 350.org, the global campaign on climate change.

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  • The Colour of Money (Época Negócios)

    26 Sep 2007 – Article

    Given the way in which the investment world is evolving in the US and EU, with huge volumes of money flowing to hedge funds and private equity groups, is this a sign that such actors could become more interested in greener money?

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  • Climate Change's Right and Wrong Fixes (openDemocracy)

    02 Feb 2007 – Article

    There are effective technological responses to global warming, argue John Elkington & Geoff Lye, but they must be true and long-term.

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  • Radar: The Carbon Issue

    Not Whether, But How

    07 Jun 2006 – Radar Archive

    Whether it is in carbon trading, carbon neutral restaurants and banks, 'carbon celebrities', or carbon politics – the topic of carbon - and, with it, climate change - is increasingly influential in mainstream thinking and behaviour.

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  • Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (Grist)

    Will cleantech turn mercenaries into missionaries?

    11 Apr 2006 – Article

    While government funds may be slow to swing around to so-called "cleantech," venture capitalists are suddenly sniffing the air.

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  • Issue Brief: Emissions Trading

    Cutting carbon's cost

    18 Jul 2004 – Article

    The need to efficiently deliver cuts in greenhouse gas emissions has led over 40 governments at regional, national and state levels to develop carbon trading regimes.

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