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New report sees job creation through sustainability

Tuesday, 02 June 2009 22:54 By Chris Innis

A new report by the Copenhagen Climate Council at the World Business Summit on Climate Change has found that a firm commitment to low-carbon energy sources would create millions of sustainable new jobs in the United States alone.

The report, Green Jobs and the Clean Energy Economy, is authored by Dan Kammen and Ditlev Engel, believes that appropriate policy frameworks and large-scale strategic investment in clean energy technologies will both spur greater employment than fossil fuel investment.

Emissions trading won't work with out transparent life cycle assessment

Friday, 03 April 2009 00:30 By Chris Innis

The last year has seen the emergence of cap and trade as a dominant strategy to combat rising emissions. Whatever the merits or demerits of the cap and trade it will need secure foundations to ensure its integrity, transparency and currency. For that, it needs the life cycle assessment industry, which puts an environmental cost on goods and services from creation to disposal to be well established, well understood and its methodologies universally accepted. After all, the price of carbon will be passed on, and life cycle analysis is probably the fairest mechanism for calculating who is responsible for what.

In many ways, life cycle assessment is the horse that pulls the carbon trading cart. It is not getting enough attention.

Recession is reducing mileage and emissions in car fleets

Monday, 09 February 2009 22:22 By Chris Innis

The recession is reducing the mileage and emissions in car fleets according to ALD Automotive as companies look to reduce fuel bills and move to lower emission vehicles.

According to ALD Automotive the changes to business car capital allowances in April this year are beginning to impact on a businesses choice of car and it now sees a clear trend towards low emissions car as a fleet choice. New figures from ALD Automotive, which operates a fleet of 50,000 vehicles, shows that average CO2 emissions of new company cars added to its fleet in 2008 dropped to an all-time low of 150.6 g/km.

Tax breaks on low carbon cars

Saturday, 03 January 2009 23:12 By Chris Innis

The balance in fleet car purchasing is beginning to favour low emissions vehicles as new legislation and tax breaks begin to bite. 2009 should be a watershed year.

There are four areas where companies in 2009 can immediately benefit from low carbon emissions fleets. They are: vehicle excise duty; capital allowances; benefit in kind; and private mileage. There are further benefits to employers in travel plans but this leads to a subject beyond the scope of this article.

Vehicle Excise Duty
The vehicle excise duty now provides a clear incentive for low emission cars. The cleanest cars are tax exempt and also get exemptions in congestion zones, while from 2010, there are extra penalties for high polluting vehicles.

American Wind Energy Association reports the US industry's accomplishments in 2008.

Saturday, 03 January 2009 03:31 By www.awea.org

The AWEA has reported what it believes to be the industry's top accomplishments of 2008. 2008 was the third year of record growth and saw wind energy gaining wider acceptance.

The accomplishments cited were:

The 20% by 2030 Report. In May, the U.S. Department of Energy reported that wind could provide 20% of U.S. electricity by 2030, supporting 500,000 jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions as much as taking 140 million vehicles off the road, and saving 4 trillion gallons of water (a 40-year supply for the city of Phoenix).

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