Dan Kammen sends letter of congratulation to eJeepney sponsors on the occasion of launching an electric public transport system in Makati.
The 2nd annual Green Tech Summit is a catalyst for U.S.-China project-to-project partnerships to reduce CO2 emissions.
At the 2009 Green Tech Summit, leading green technology CEOs, venture capitalists and academics will engage in a dialogue on how U.S.-China project-to-project partnerships can reduce CO2, generate green jobs, and ensure energy independence.
Dan Kammen greets the announcement of the first Chinese factory for solar panels in the US as a sign of the increasingly important collaboration between Chinese and American leaders in the renewable-energy industry.
On Nov 16. Suntech Power made its aims public to boost its share of the U.S. market with a solar-panel manufacturing plant to be built in Arizona.
The accounting now used for assessing compliance with carbon limits in the Kyoto Protocol and in climate legislation contains a far-reaching but fixable flaw that will severely undermine greenhouse gas reduction goals. It does not count CO2 emitted from tailpipes and smokestacks when bioenergy is being used, but it also does not count changes in emissions from land use when biomass for energy is harvested or grown. This accounting erroneously treats all bioenergy as carbon neutral regardless of the source of the biomass, which may cause large differences in net emissions.
WASHINGTON — US experts warn that rules governing biofuel production encourage deforestation and mean the technology is therefore a "false" method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In a study to be published Friday in the US journal Science, a group of 13 scientists called for the rules, which contain a loophole exempting carbon dioxide emitted by bioenergy regardless of its source, to be overturned.
An article recently covered in the Science-Magazine by Searchinger, Kammen et al. provokes an engaged discussion on carbon accounting techniques of biofuels. The original paper pointed out legal loopholes in the Kyoto Protocol, the European Cap and Trade System and the Waxman-Markey bill, which neglect carbon emissions caused by deforestation to clear the land for the production of biofuels. At BiofuelsDigest.com press coverage of the issue by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are synthesized with a statement of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).
Dan Kammen participated in the recent US-China Strategic Forum on Clean Energy Cooperation, which gathered more than 300 guests including former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, high-ranking officials from both governments and representatives of international organizations.
This article takes a dismissive perspective on recent critical findings on biofuels published in the Science Magazine. There, Dan Kammen and other climate experts pointed out a loophole in the current wording of the Kyoto Protocol which should be addressed at the negotiations in Copenhagen. They state that biofuels may have negative carbon footprints due to potential prior deforestation.
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