To support California in meeting its climate goals and using its budget most effectively, CPI created this first-of-its-kind landscape of climate finance in California, building on the flagship Global Landscape of Climate Finance methodology. In doing so, aim to fill a gap in comprehensive data on both past spending and …
California Energy Commission staff on Friday said BrightSource Energy's proposed 500-megawatt Hidden Hills solar thermal power project would have "significant" impact on the environment. In a statement on the final staff assessment, the state's primary energy planning and policy agency cited impacts on "biological resources, cultural resources, land use, and …
The Morning Star Company’s three plants in California emit roughly 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year — about the same amount as the Pacific Island nation of Palau — as they turn tomatoes into ketchup, spaghetti sauce and juice used by millions of consumers around …
It had been a nervous few days. So the California Air Resources Board (CARB), which is running the state’s new cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse-gas emissions, can be forgiven for celebrating its first big test in eccentric fashion. Barely an hour after details of the first auction of emissions permits were …
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed a new push for action on climate change, saying the United States had a duty to come together to curb emissions in the wake of megastorm Sandy. In his first news conference since his decisive re-election on November 6, Obama said he planned …
California, long the national leader in clean energy policy, is poised to double down on its investments in the sector, with billions in new subsidies set to flow in over the next few years. California voters last week directed some $2.5 billion to energy conservation programs with the approval of …
California is set to unveil a new weapon in its fight against global climate change on Wednesday when it holds its first sale of carbon emissions permits - a landmark experiment that it hopes will serve as a model for other U.S. states and the federal government. The state's carbon …
President Barack Obama said he plans to work with Congress in his second term to curb human-aggravated climate change, but not at the expense of the U.S. economy. "I am a firm believer that climate change is real, that it is impacted by human behavior, and carbon emissions," Obama said …
Polls show 53.7% voted against the contentious measure that was seen as a testbed case for the US as a whole A Californian ballot proposing the labelling of genetically modified ingredients in food products has been rejected by the state's voters . With 95% of votes counted, the polls showed …
Suppliers of offset credits to California's carbon emissions market will only be able to meet a third of demand unless the state approves more project types, a move that could drive up the cost of complying with the scheme, an expert said Tuesday. Companies that have their carbon dioxide emissions …
A moderate earthquake was widely felt as it rattled the central California coast, but authorities said it didn’t cause any damage. Nearly 6,700 people reported on the US Geological Survey Web site that they felt the magnitude 5.3 quake when it struck late yesterday outside of King City, the federal …
Stockholm: Two Americans were awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for studies on the matchmaking taking place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients. The work of Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley has sparked a “flourishing field of research” and …
Mars rover Curiosity has found definitive proof that water once ran across the surface of Mars, US space agency NASA announced. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence -- images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels -- is the first of its kind. …
California's top air regulator offered a stern defense of the state's forthcoming carbon cap-and-trade system, battling back against complaints from industry that it will cost jobs and drive up consumer prices at a hearing on Thursday. Industry and manufacturing groups that have opposed the carbon market said at a meeting …
California's carbon market could be 29 percent short of offset credits in its 2013-2014 pilot phase if regulators do not expand their list of allowable project types, making it more expensive for companies to achieve their required emissions cuts, a new report said. By the upcoming cap-and-trade system's third phase, …
NewDelhi:Genetically modified mosquitoes, created and bred in a lab and capable of destroying its own species, is the latest weapon in the global fight against dengue. The dengue virus is spread by an infected female Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Scientists from the University of California in the US, the University of …
Major banks are weighing whether to wade into the California carbon market, which experts believe could grow into a $40 billion a year market by 2020, but one that is also loaded with risk and uncertainty. Following last week's successful test of the state's auction platform, the reality is starting …
After announcing this week it will link its future carbon market to the EU's, Australia may look to California next as a potential emissions-trading partner, but the US state may be less keen to cement a trans-continental link, analysts said. On Tuesday, Australia announced it will link its emissions trading …
Amateur cave explorers have found a new family of spiders in the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon, and scientists have dubbed it Trogloraptor - Latin for cave robber - for their fearsome front claws. The explorers sent specimens to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, which has the …
We conducted detailed resurveys of a montane mammal, Urocitellus beldingi, to examine the effects of climate change on persistence along the trailing edge of its range. Of 74 California sites where U. beldingi were historically recorded (1902–1966), 42 per cent were extirpated, with no evidence for colonization of previously unoccupied …
