Category: Info about Resource Companies
04/03/12
10:31:25 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Technologies
Becker Posner Blog: Fracking and Self-Sufficiency in Gas and Oil-Becker, April 1, 2012Gary does not neglect that government can give the impetus but private investors normally have to take the lead to industrialization:The early progress in frack… more »
03/22/12
01:35:15 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 33 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Technologies
The chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the chief scientist of Greenpeace, an energy and environmental policy expert, and an environmental activist/politician talk about nuclear energy:Keywords: Energy, Nuclear Energy more »
02/18/12
08:22:55 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 103 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Politics, Technologies
Project Syndicate: Germany’s Sunshine Daydream, by Bjørn Lomborg, Feb. 16, 2012One of the world’s biggest green-energy public-policy experiments is coming to a bitter end in Germany, with important lessons for policymakers elsewhere.Germany onc… more »
09/16/11
06:55:42 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 93 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Politics, Technologies
With its decision for a nuclear phase out, Germany has to rely on nuclear energy from neighboring nuclear plants which are not always known for the safety:
Spiegel Online International: Greenwashing after the Phase-Out; German 'Energy Revolution' Depe… more »
07/11/11
11:19:08 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 935 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Technologies
A post on Freakonomics blog and research done at the Stanford Program on Energy and Sustainable Development offer great input to the complex question:Freakonomics: What Happens Next as the World Turns Away From Nuclear Power? A Freakonomics Quorum, J… more »
06/06/11
07:03:53 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 83 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Technologies
Jim Connaughton, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Public and Environmental Policy for Constellation Energy and former Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality from 2001-2009, asserts that despite gains made through market-… more »
04/23/11
07:39:54 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 173 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Technologies
This is an interesting article in the New York Times about consumer spending for green products. It seems that the "green bubble" has burst during the recession as many consumers have to cut spending overall. Many consumers might be glad that they still… more »
04/08/11
06:56:03 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 156 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Technologies
I read following short note in the Denver post:Denver Post: CNG fueling stations debut, April 3, 2011"Two compressed natural gas stations are set to open in western Colorado, marking the completion of an alternative-fuel corridor to the West Coas… more »
02/24/11
06:31:19 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 147 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Research
Source: Voxeu.org (click on graph for larger imageWhen we started this website in early 2007 we intended to include sectors which are of economic and business relevance. We had some discussions whether a "resources section" would be of interest. We f… more »
07/30/10
02:06:55 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 60 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Global natural Resources Trends
Spiegel Online International: Choc Finger's Big Bet; Speculators Rediscover Agricultural Commodities, July 29, 2010
With the financial crisis fading into the past, speculation on agricultural commodities markets has returned in force. Food prices are… more »
10/21/09
11:18:26 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 44 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Research, Technologies
Find here the link to UNEP SEFI's and New Energy Finance's Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009 Report. The report provides an overview of capital flows and an analysis of the trends in sustainable energy investment activity. more »
07/25/09
09:15:53 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 129 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Politics, Strategy
The German industry conglomerate RWE is working on its image to be perceived as a "green" company. They have produced an image film where they present themselves as "green giant":
Source: Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports that… more »
07/03/09
09:57:02 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 69 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Global natural Resources Trends, Politics, Strategy, Initiatives
MarketWatch: Not easy being green, Bright investment outlook for 'cleantech' stocks is becoming cloudier, July 2, 2009
Following President Barack Obama's election and Democratic congressional victories in November, many investors expected strong polit… more »
05/04/09
08:19:30 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 18 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Politics
News from a subsidized industry in a EU country..
FT: Mafia link to Sicily wind farms probed, May 4, 2009 more »
01/14/09
10:19:20 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 111 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Politics, Technologies
FT: California scheming, Jan. 14, 2009
A new Silicon Valley is being born. The northern Californian region that brought the world microprocessors, personal computers and Google now has its sights set on another technological revolution: one founded on… more »
01/02/09
07:24:32 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 168 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Politics, Strategy
FT: Russia halts gas to Ukraine, Jan 1, 2008
Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine on Thursday after last-minute talks about a deal for this year broke down in Moscow on Wednesday night.
Although both sides said they would guarantee supplies to w… more »
12/30/08
09:07:47 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 71 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Global natural Resources Trends
WSJ: Bumpy Crop: Farming's Sudden Feasts and Famines, As Grain Prices Rise and Fall and Perhaps Rise Again, Growers Struggle to Navigate a New Age of Volatility and High Costs, Dec. 30, 2008
"There's a phenomenal change in the whole structure of the f… more »
10/22/08
02:20:52 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 114 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Politics, Technologies
Another industry whose boom has been initiated by government regulation measures..
FT: Investors suffer as US ethanol boom dries up, Oct. 21, 2008
Investors, such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, are sitting on billions of dollars in losses after buyi… more »
04/23/08
10:44:55 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 62 words
Categories: Info about Resource Companies, Politics, Technologies
The New York Times: Europe Turns Back to Coal, Raising Climate Fears, Elisabeth Rosenthal, April 23, 2008: "Italy — At a time when the world’s top climate experts agree that carbon emissions must be rapidly reduced to hold down global warming, Italy’s ma… more »
XML FeedsThis blog provides information on natural resources and natural resource trends.
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VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL LINKS:
- American Agric. Economics Association
- Berkeley Institute of the EnvironmentLeading environment research center of UC Berkeley
- Ecological EconomicsBlog by Dave Iverson; highly academic; giving an “ecological” perspective on the current environmental debate
- EcoTrekkerTop 50 Alternative Energy Blogs
- Environmental and Urban Economics:Blog of UCLA professor Matthew E. Kahn; posts are a mix of environmental and urban economics. Matt also gives some excellent insights into academic life and a top quality publication record to match
- Daily Reckoning (Commodities Section)
- Environmental CapitalDaily analysis of the business of the environment by The Wall Street Journal
- Environmental EconomicsEconomists Tim Haab and John Whitehead on Environmental and Natural Resources: News, Opinion, and Analysis
- Harvard Environmental Economics ProgramA University wide research initiative
- International Trade Statistics by Product (UNCTAD)
- MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
- Oxford Business Group
- PERCthe US's oldest and largest institute dedicated to original research that brings market principles to resolving environmental problems
- Planet Ark (Reuters)daily environmental news
- United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database
- United Nations environmental Publications
- US Geological Service - Minerals Information
- US Senate on Natural Resources
- Whiskey and Gunpower
- WTO
- Sierra Club
COMMODITY DATA:
- CNN Money (Commodities)
- Reuters Commodity Prices
- World Bank Commodity Price Data
- The World Gold Council
ENVIRONMENT AND INDUSTRY:
- Eco Business Links
- Business in the Environment
- Earth Trends
- Energy Information Administration (Official US enviromental Statistics)
- Environmental Code of Conducts
- Global Environmental Management Initiative
- Environmental Protection Agency
- GRIST.ORG
- International Corporate Sustainability Reporting
- The European Pollutant Emission Register (Information on approx. 9'200 industrial Sites)
- MasterResource: a free-market energy blog
- World Business Council for sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- World.org: 100 top environmental sites
- Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS:
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
COMPANY'S SUSTAINA- BILITY REPORTING:
- British Petroleum: Environment and Society
- British Telecom: Society and Environment
- NEC: Annual environmental Report 2006
- Novo Nordisk: Sustainability
- Shell: Environment and Society
- Unilever: Sustainability Development Report
- Global Reporters 2006: Ranking of non-financial Reporting
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WORKING PAPERS:
- SSRN: Biggest Collection of Working Papers (Environmental Economics)
- Globalization of sustainable Development?: Principles and Practices in transnational Corporations (Dennis A. Rondinelli)
