Monday February 08, 2010
Fiction: Green Thinking fable
The Singapore Business Times featured an excerpt from Dennis Posadas's new fictional business fable on climate change and clean energy in its 2010 New Year's Day issue
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What Mexico City can learn from Copenhagen
John Topping Jr.
Cleantech Asia Online
4 January 2010
John Topping Jr., columnist for Cleantech Asia Online and President of the Washington, DC based Climate Institute, argues that Mexico COP16 should breakup the single climate treaty concept and break it up into transparent multiple agreements involving only the pertinent players.
Asia Can Help Lead Climate-Change Fight
Dennis Posadas is the Editor of Cleantech Asia Online, and a contributing columnist to the Asia Insight column of BusinessWeek.com
The Copenhagen COP: A Bridge to Ultimate Success
John Topping Jr.
Cleantech Asia Online
1 December 2009
John Topping Jr, columnist for Cleantech Asia Online, and President of the Washington, DC based Climate Institute, says that if an emissions agreement cannot be reached in Copenhagen, it should at least lay the groundwork for CoP16 in Mexico in 2010..
World leaders take note: Rotten outcome best avoided in the state of Denmark
Gavin Edwards
Cleantech Asia Online
1 December 2009
Gavin Edwards, head of the climate and energy campaign at Greenpeace, says that we have to guard against the tendency of some leaders to use Copenhagen as a symbolic photo-op, instead of what it should be - a place to make real commitments.
California and the Next Phase of Solar Energy Markets
Marc van Gerven and Philipp Kunze
Cleantech Asia Online
1 November 2009
Marc van Gerven, the Executive VP for Marketing and Sales of Solaria Corporation and Philipp Kunze, Managing Director of Solaria Germany GmbH, discuss the difference between Europe's feed-in-tariff and California's incentives for renewable energy.
It's all about energy
Cleantech Asia Online
1 November 2009
Laurence L Delina, a consultant to the Energy Security Section of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(UNESCAP) in Bangkok, Thailand, says that sustainable energy is about shifting the way we source and produce our energy from being fossil-fuel addicts to being clean energy users.
Keeping humanity afloat
John Topping Jr.
Cleantech Asia Online
1 November 2009
John Topping Jr. is a regular contributor to Cleantech Asia Online. He is the President of the Washington, D.C. based Climate Institute. Topping discusses new developments in climate change mitigation that will hopefully help island countries like the Maldives stem the negative impact of climate change.
China’s energy shift: leapfrogging developed countries on climate change efforts
Eric Spiegel and Paul Duerloo
Cleantech Asia Online
1 October 2009
Eric Spiegel and Paul Duerloo, partners at consulting firm Booz & Company, discuss China’s strategy options for leapfrogging developed countries in the climate change arena. Spiegel is also a co-author of the book Energy Shift: Game Changing Options for Fueling the Future (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009)
Bangkok-based renewable energy firms ready for IPO
Austin Arensberg
Cleantech Asia Online
1 October 2009
Austin Arensberg, the business development manager of Bangkok based investment firm Prime Energy Investments Ltd, talks about the IPO situation of renewable energy firms in Thailand.
A spirited competition for low carbon energy
John C. Topping, Jr.
Cleantech Asia Online
1 October 2009
John Topping Jr., a regular contributor and President of the Washington, D.C. based Climate Institute, argues that competitiveness based on low carbon is the way to go.
350: The Magic Number
Cleantech Asia Online
1 September 2009
Bill McKibben is a New York Times bestselling author of several books including The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information and Deep Economy. He argues that the most important number in Copenhagen this year is 350.
The future is hot for Concentrating Solar Power
Cleantech Asia Online
1 September 2009
Gavin Edwards is the Head of the Climate & Energy Campaign of Greenpeace International, and a contributor to Cleantech Asia Online. He writes about the advantages of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) as a renewable energy source.
How Asia might save the climate
Cleantech Asia Online
1 September 2009
John Topping Jr, is the President of the Washington, D.C. based Climate Institute and a regular contributor to Cleantech Asia Online. He is a co-editor of Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change (UK:Earthscan, 2008). Topping writes about how Asia can make a significant contribution in Copenhagen through black carbon emission cuts.
Sustainable energy investments in the Philippines
Cleantech Asia Online
1 September 2009
Romel Carlos is the Associate Operations Officer for the Sustainable Energy Finance Program of IFC Philippines, the private sector arm of the World Bank. He explains how IFC is helping the Philippines jump on the sustainable energy investment bandwagon.
Reducing soot: common ground for climate negotiations
Cleantech Asia Online
1 August 2009
John Topping Jr, a columnist for Cleantech Asia Online and the President of the Washington, D.C. based Climate Institute, argues that developed and developing countries should look beyond their locked positions in CO2 reduction and instead consider soot reduction as a possible area for an agreement in Copenhagen.
Patent protection and enforcement in China
Cleantech Asia Online
1 August 2009
Amy Goldsmith, an intellectual property lawyer from the New York based law firm of Gottlieb, Rackman and Reisman, argues that China's intellectual property protection regime is steadily becoming more sophisticated and protective of IP rights.
Earth hour: symbolism isn’t enough
BusinessWeek.com
1 April 2009
Dennis Posadas, the Editor of Cleantech Asia Online, argues that citizens should look beyond feel good celebrations of the environment like Earth Hour, and instead start the real work towards climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Countdown to Copenhagen: The year the world tackles climate change
Cleantech Asia Online
1 July 2009
Gavin Edwards is head of the Climate and Energy campaign of Greenpeace. Edwards talks about what both developed and developing countries should do to prepare for a successful agreement this year in Copenhagen.
Investing in our Future – the opportunity in Cleantech
Cleantech Asia Online
1 July 2009
Sudheer Kuppam is the Managing Director – India, Japan, Australasia and South East Asia of Intel Capital. He writes about how cleantech has moved from an altruistic grassroots concern to one that offers serious opportunities to business and investors.
Mexico and the Philippines: Building a public base for energy reform
Cleantech Asia Online
1 July 2009
John Topping Jr, President of the Washington, D.C. based Climate Institute, and a former Reagan administration Environmental Protection Agency Director for Air and Radiation, talks about how Mexico and the Philippines can build a public base for energy reform.
On the Philippine Bataan Nuclear Power Plant Revival: Lessons from the French experience
Cleantech Asia Online
1 July 2009
Yves Marignac is a consultant on nuclear and energy issues and Executive Director of the energy-information agency, WISE-Paris. Marignac has worked at the Paris-XI University, the French Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique) and the nuclear company Société des Techniques en Milieu Ionisant (STMI). He has authored many publications on energy, nuclear and global environmental issues, and acted as an expert for France’s Prime Minister’s services and the European Parliament. Marignac writes about how the Philippines should not use the French experience as a basis for reactivating the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Plant.
What Really Happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl
Cleantech Asia Online
1 July 2009
Marc de Piolenc, a mechanical engineer and former field editor of Gas Turbine World and Cogeneration magazines, has tracked nuclear power developments since the mid-1980s. He writes about the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl incidents which have colored public perception about nuclear energy.
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