Cleantech ticker: 23 March 2009
Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates:
- Irish officials have added a guaranteed feed-in tariff for microgeneration systems installed in homes over the next three years;
- India has joined the International Renewable Energy Agency;
- The global economic crisis will cause investments in renewable energy to “cool” over the short and medium terms, according to Frost & Sullivan;
- Japan is expected to revise upward its estimated carbon dioxide emissions for 2007, Point Carbon reports;
- A new taskforce launched today by Defra, Cabinet Office and the Department of Energy and Climate Change aims to identify specific both public and private actions that can be taken to tackle climate change and environmental issues;
- Point Carbon reports that carbon prices today rose by 4.9 percent;
- The Biotechnology Industry Organization today released the full schedule and list of speakers for the 2009 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, set for 19 – 22 July in Montreal.
