Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:August 5, 2005
News and Events U.S. Joins Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development University of Michigan Wins the North American Solar Challenge Texas More than Doubles its Renewable Energy Requirement New York State Sets Efficiency Standards for Appliances Northwest Alliance to Promote Efficient Commercial BuildingsEnergy ConnectionsAsia’s Growth to Help Boost World Energy Use 57 Percent by 2025 News and EventsU.S. Joins Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean DevelopmentPresident Bush announced last week that the United States has joined with Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea to create a new Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development. This new partnership will allow the six nations to develop and accelerate deployment of cleaner, more efficient energy technologies to address pollution reduction, energy security, and climate change concerns in ways that reduce poverty and promote economic development. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman will meet with their international counterparts this fall to carry the new partnership forward. See the White House announcement.A White House fact sheet that accompanied the announcement noted that an increase in greenhouse gases caused by human activity is warming the surface of the Earth, and suggested the key to addressing this climate challenge is to develop and deploy cleaner, more […]
