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solar power

Deutsche Bank just released new analyses concluding that the global solar market will become sustainable on its own terms by the end of 2014, no longer needing subsidies.[read more]

energy efficiency

The Alliance to Save Energy’s Commission on National Energy Policy agree that one of the keys to increasing energy efficiency in the United States is growing the market for energy efficiency financing.[read more]

For most of this year the enormous potential of shale gas has been clouded by controversy over its alleged climate impact. This began with the draft and later the leaked pre-publication version of a paper from a Cornell professor suggesting that the greenhouse gas emissions from gas were no better than those from coal and might even be...[read more]

 Here are 10 companies that are putting real dollars behind their sustainability rhetoric: Kohl’s, Whole Foods Market, TD Bank, Swiss Re, Nordea Bank, Adobe Systems, Vestas Wind, News Corp., CLP Holdings and Deutsche Bank. They’re leaders in buying renewable energy, according to a new report from Vestas and Bloomberg New Energy...[read more]

Global financial giant Deutsche Bank has crushed the climate skeptics in a new paper released today, finding that “human-made climate change is already happening and is a serious long term threat.”  Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson has the story. The bank’s DB Climate Change Advisors, working with the Columbia Climate Center at the...[read more]

Like most big problems, climate change will require big solutions. Governments and business will have to make massive investment in clean energy–$45 trillion between now and 2025, says the International Energy Agency. This could make some people very rich. Wall Street, are you listening? Deutsche Bank is. No financial institution has...[read more]

To whatever degree the oil price spike of 2007-8 was driven by speculation, the latter was riding on a wave of concern about Peak Oil, which anticipates an imminent decline in maximum global oil production. For the moment, the weak global economy has eased such worries, though they have hardly vanished, as I noted two months ago. Lately...[read more]

Keith Johnson at the WSJ's Environmental Capital blog has a post on a recent Deutsche Bank report predicting peak oil in 2016 - Peak Oil: The End Of the Oil Age is Near, Deutsche Bank Says. The report notes that if the cost of the war in Iraq was taken into account, prices at the pump would soar - "If the US government taxed US gasoline...[read more]