Maggio 2014 - Futuro Sostenibile

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Un’impresa su 4 in Italia è green oriented

Un’impresa su quattro in Italia è ‘orientata’ alla sostenibilità: è ‘green oriented’. Dall’industria all’edilizia, ai trasporti, un quarto delle imprese italiane ha cioè saputo fare di innovazione e ambiente un fattore di competitività e una ricetta anticrisi. E’ quanto rileva l’Italian Council for Eco Innovation, l’Osservatorio Innovazione e Tecnologia per la green economy nato proprio per incentivare questo potenziale ‘verde’ made in Italy e darne visibilità anche verso gli investitori e i mercati internazionali. Frutto di un partenariato tra il ministero dell’Ambiente e la Fondazione per lo sviluppo sostenibile con il supporto dell’Ice-Agenzia per la promozione all’estero e l’internazionalizzazione delle imprese italiane, l’osservatorio è stato presentato a Roma.

EU Commission puts forward comprehensive strategy to strengthen security of supply

The European Commission reacts on the current geopolitical environment and the EU´s import dependence: It advocates a new European Energy Security Strategy. Diversifying external energy supplies, upgrading energy infrastructure, completing the EU internal energy market and saving energy are among its main points. The strategy also highlights the need to coordinate national energy policy decisions and the importance of speaking with one voice when negotiating with external partners. It builds on the progress already achieved since the gas crisis in 2009. The proposals of the Commission, including actions to ensure uninterrupted supplies this winter, will be discussed by EU Heads of State or Government at the European Council on 26-27 June.

For a Canadian Province, Gas Boom Presents a Conundrum

As nations rush to ship vast new stores of natural gas across oceans, the climate change implications of the fuel are coming under increased scrutiny. Perhaps nowhere is the debate so intense as in British Columbia, a province in western Canada where there are plans to export large quantities ofnatural gas to Asia. Environmentalists fear that the production and processing of the gas for export could upend the province’s aggressiveclimate change policies, which include an emissions-reduction goal and an unusual carbon tax system.

Americans care deeply about ‘global warming’ – but not ‘climate change’

Barack Obama, scientists and campaigners have all looked at how to engage Americans more powerfully on the environment. Now researchers have come up with one critical piece of advice: do say “global warming”, don’t say “climate change”. New research released on Tuesday found Americans care more deeply when the term “global warming” is used to describe the major environmental challenge. “Climate change”, in contrast, leaves them relatively cold.

Green Economy: Search for growth hits progress on environment

Developed by a New York start-up, a controllable radiator cover means residents of homes heated by old steam systems no longer have to waste energy in winter by opening windows to cool off. Radiator Labs is among many companies that see business opportunities in green technologies. But while both start-ups and multinationals are capitalising on these, policy makers have been slower to act. “Ten years ago I would have said that policy leaders were out front and companies were following regarding the recognition and acknowledgment of sustainability,” says Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, a US-based coalition of investors and environmental groups. “That has flipped substantially.