News you might have missed: 9 April 2009
Getting started with the holiday weekend and don’t have time to slog through all the cleantech headlines? Don’t worry: just follow Greenbang’s daily dose of news you might have missed:
- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has launched a €60 million credit facility to fund efficiency and renewable power projects in Serbia;
- New legislation that came into effect in Ireland this month aims to boost the country’s renewable energy capacity;
- A European research consortium has built a high-speed grid that links 12 world-class supercomputers;
- Saudi Arabia’s lead climate negotiator said the UN’s climate change talks should address economic threats to his country’s future;
- Climate change is fast bringing dramatic shifts in worldwide fire patterns, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Texas Tech University.
