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Energy efficiency – comfort vs. sustainability

Lisbet Bræmer-Jensen, Grundfos & ‘Act NOW‘

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Mozambique Irrigation Project to help achieve UN MDGs

Mitsui & Co.

In cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mitsui is donating a solar power-operated pumping facility for irrigation water to a local farming community in Mozambique, Africa. In 2010, a partnership agreement to build an irrigation system was signed between Mitsui and UNDP, with the project currently at the construction phase. more[...] login_required

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Galaev, Andrei

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Managing Biofuels Portfolio Risk – The Role of Financial and Risk Analysis

Deloitte

This white paper explores managing biofuels portfolio risk – the stakeholder’s targeted value approach and the financial and risk analysis roles. The Department of Navy (DON), Department of Energy, and United States Department of Agriculture are together pursuing an ambitious program to support military requirements for viable and cost effective biofuels and to accelerate the growth of a national biofuels industry to address strategic energy security concerns. Source: All information taken from the website. more[...] login_required

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Fighting Fuel Poverty – Supporting Our Most Vulnerable Customers

EDF Group

Fuel poverty is a growing problem throughout Europe. As it varies widely from one country to another, each country has its own definition specific to its context and history. Electricity companies are involving themselves in public schemes in compliance with regulatory requirements and in action taken on their own initiative. more[...] login_required

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CleanStar Mozambique: Food, Fuel and Forests at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Marc Gunther, FORTUNE magazine

What on earth is Novozymes, a $1.8-billion industrial biotechnology company headquartered in Denmark, doing in Mozambique, a poor African country (per capita income: $440) where corruption is rampant and more than half of the government’s budget comes from foreign aid? more[...]

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Access to Basic Services in Casablanca Shantytowns

Jean Pierre Ermenault, GDF Suez
Engie

SUEZ Environment and its subsidiaries are committed to the daily challenge of protecting resources and ecosystems. The company provides innovative solutions to millions of people and industries in the drinking water, wastewater treatment, and waste management fields. This case study shows how LYDEC provides access to energy, water, and sewage to households in Greater Casablanca. more[...] login_required

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Access to Basic Services in Casablanca Shantytowns

Jean Pierre Ermenault, GDF Suez

SUEZ Environment and its subsidiaries are committed to the daily challenge of protecting resources and ecosystems. The company provides innovative solutions to millions of people and industries in the drinking water, wastewater treatment, and waste management fields. This case study shows how LYDEC provides access to energy, water, and sewage to households in Greater Casablanca. more[...]

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Partnerships for More High-Quality Food

Editorial Team

Safeguarding food supplies for a constantly growing world population will be among the most pressing problems of the future. Bayer is providing an innovative solution with the program “food chain partnership.” This business model supports the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of fighting poverty and hunger throughout the world and contributes to sustainable development. more[...]

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Partnerships for More High-Quality Food

Dr. Wolfgang Große-Entrup, Bayer Group

Safeguarding food supplies for a constantly growing world population will be among the most pressing problems of the future. Bayer is providing an innovative solution with the program “food chain partnership.” This business model supports the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of fighting poverty and hunger throughout the world and contributes to sustainable development. more[...]

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Life Is Good When We Are Healthy!

Editorial Team

Construction of green solid dosage forms (tablets/capsules) factory in Sofia, Bulgaria. The factory project won a first class investor award. The plant is a new generation building, combining high quality criteria for energy efficiency (photo-voltage, gas etc.), corresponding to new environmental directives for construction. Replacement of organic solvents with water is just one of the projects ecological advantages. more[...] login_required

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Life Is Good When We Are Healthy!

Pelagia Viatcheva, Sopharma

Project name: Construction of green solid dosage forms (tablets/capsules) factory in Sofia, Bulgaria. The factory project won a first class investor award. The plant is a new generation building, combining high quality criteria for energy efficiency (photo-voltage, gas etc.), corresponding to new environmental directives for construction. Replacement of organic solvents with water is just one of the projects ecological advantages. more[...]

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The Future of Cities

Wolfram Haller, Siemens
Siemens

Today more than half the world’s population lives in cities, which emit 80 percent of all greenhouse gases and use 75 percent of energy – figures rising. It is thus with the cities that we must start if we want to manage population growth, increasing energy demand and climate change. Many solutions are already available, including environmentally compatible energy supply, highly efficient building, transportation and water supply systems and affordable financial models. These improve climate protection, increase the security of supply, enhance the quality of life and reduce costs. For world wide success, however, cooperation on a global basis is needed, for example in United Nations programs. more[...] login_required

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The Future of Cities

Wolfram Haller, Siemens

Today more than half the world’s population lives in cities, which emit 80 percent of all greenhouse gases and use 75 percent of energy – figures rising. It is thus with the cities that we must start if we want to manage population growth, increasing energy demand and climate change. Many solutions are already available, including environmentally compatible energy supply, highly efficient building, transportation and water supply systems and affordable financial models. These improve climate protection, increase the security of supply, enhance the quality of life and reduce costs. For world wide success, however, cooperation on a global basis is needed, for example in United Nations programs. more[...]

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Systematic and Holistic Program for a Balanced Industrial Ecology

M Bhaskar, TÜV Rheinland Group
Dagny Buehler-Thierfelder, TÜV Rheinland Holding
TÜV Rheinland Holding

In Karnataka, one of the fastest-growing states of India, officials have become aware of the increasing pollution and exploitation of natural resources by the major industries and the growing population. Indian energy production has risen over 20 percent since 2000; during the same period, CO2 emissions went up by nearly 30 percent. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has identified 118 companies – the majority small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – from all the main industries that are using resources inefficiently and are polluting the environment. More than half of the companies are located in the district of Bangalore and are a constant threat to the ecological balance of the region. more[...] login_required

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