Cleantech ticker: 4 May 2009
Cleantech news as it happens — check back for regular updates:
- A proposed UK scheme that would require about 5,000 businesses to cut carbon emissions by reducing their energy consumption gives companies no reason to buy renewable energy, critics say;
- Point Carbon reports that Germany is reviewing a previous decision to allow the import of 2 million CDM credits from a Chinese hydropower project;
- Global condition monitoring services company Azima DLI today announced WATCHMAN Remote™ Monitoring Services for the wind power industry;
- An umbrella group set up to give direction to Europe’s emerging photonics community has proposed a programme of strategic research and is calling for action to address a looming skills shortage;
- Compact lasers that can work in formerly inaccessible parts of the spectrum and are suitable for mass production are now within reach, thanks to pioneering work by a European consortium;
- Researchers at the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf are studying the possible impacts that carbon nanotubes could have on the environment;
- Researchers from the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, both in Norway, have conducted a survey of ocean circulation that could improve climate predictions.
