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Commodities: Expensive and Volatile for the Foreseeable Future
I touched on this McKinsey report earlier, but my most recent Clean Break column delves a bit deeper into the consultancy’s analysis of commodity trends past and future, and how this will impact the way corporations operate. —————————————————— Has the global economy entered a long period of persistently high, volatile commodity... [read more]
Pension Funds, Business Consortium to Invest Over $1.6 Billion in Energy Efficiency Projects
Two separate initiatives formed this week could unlock more than $1.6 billion in private investment for energy efficiency projects around the U.S. Yesterday at the Clinton Global Initiative, two of the largest U.S. pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTERS announced that they would invest $1 billion toward energy efficiency projects. This... [read more]
No Free Lunch on Climate
Plenty of studies show how we can save the planet and save money all at once. Many of them happen to be produced by McKinsey. Economists tend to deride them. If you could really save money by being green, why wouldn’t everyone be green all the time? [read more]
Google Can See The Future
Google, whose energy initiatives and investments have always impressed me, yesterday released an energy innovation analysis that uses a model they built with McKinsey to forecast global power production mixes by different energy technologies in 2030. The analysis is available in a report [PDF] and interactive website that allows users to... [read more]
Climate Change and Clean Tech in Israel
Israel is a small country of 7.5 million people with an oversized political and media footprint. It also has a growing carbon footprint problem on its current development path, as noted in the November 2009 McKinsey report on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potential in Israel (the 5-page summary is in English, click here for full Hebrew... [read more]
New York City ready for electric cars
photo: Think In The New York Times on Monday, I write about a new McKinsey report that looks at the potential for electric cars in three of the world’s “megacities” — New York, Paris and Shanghai: New Yorkers, start your electric cars. A report from the consulting firm McKinsey, scheduled to be issued Monday, found that about a fifth... [read more]
Benefits and costs of energy efficiency investments
Ryan Avent and Paul Krugman are ripping Ted Gayer over his recognition of the costs of energy efficiency investments. Here is Krugman:Ryan Avent takes on Ted Gayer so I don’t have to. Mr. Gayer tries to dismiss some of what I’ve said about the cost of climate-change policy by mocking a McKinsey study showing that a substantial amount of... [read more]
Solving the World Water Problems: What McKinsey & Company does not say
McKinsey & Company, the management consultant company whose advice was so helpful to ENRON, Swiss-air, Kmart, and Global Crossing, has now published a 185 page report on current and future world water shortages. McKinsey & Company is of course a darling of the Greens because of a previous report that suggested that huge amounts... [read more]
The looming “water gap”
There’s good and bad news from a sweeping new report on the world’s water scarcity out today from McKinsey & Co., commissioned by such water-dependent companies as Coca-Cola, Nestle, SAB Miller and Syngenta, along with the World Bank/International Finance Corp. The bad: Global demand for water already exceeds supply—about 1.1... [read more]
Alas, energy efficiency isn’t sexy
If The Graduate (1967) were remade today, the famous scene where Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) gets career advice might have to be rewritten this way: Mr. McGuire: I want to say two words to you. Just two words. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Energy efficiency. Energy... [read more]
Energy Efficiency Proven To Work - Time To Accelerate
John Holdren, President Obama's top science advisor and a longstanding proponent of energy efficiency. (Source: Scientific American) John Holdren, Obama’s top science adviser, was recently interviewed by Yale 360 about the future of energy efficiency, renewable energy, climate change and energy policy. The entire... [read more]
Where can the US get $1.2 trillion?
To supplement my recently published ICIS Chemical Business article about energy efficiency technologies within the chemical industry, here's a recent report from McKinsey & Company on how the US, by 2020, could potentially save $1.2 trillion in non-transportation energy costs and cut energy consumption by 23%. Strategies needed to... [read more]
Electrifying cars: How three industries will evolve
The McKinsey Quarterly (free registration required) has an article on "electrified cars will transform the auto and utilities sectors and create a new battery industry" - Electrifying cars: How three industries will evolve.It’s a safe bet that consumers will eventually swap their gas-powered cars and trucks for rechargeable models.... [read more]
The Saudi Arabia Of Energy Efficiency
Next100 has a post on the much reported McKinsey report into energy efficiency - THE SAUDI ARABIA OF ENERGY EFFICIENCYMcKinsey & Company this week released a report on energy efficiency opportunities in the United States -- not solutions, which the report authors say will be up to policy makers, businesses and academia.The report... [read more]
McKinsey & Co: Energy Efficiency is Like Free Money
We're leaving money on the table by not improving energy efficiency (image by pfala, CC 2.5 licensed) Would you spend $520 to save $1,200? That’s the choice McKinsey & Co is offering to the U.S. about energy efficiency. In their new report on energy efficiency, released last week, McKinsey shows how the U.S. can reduce its non-... [read more]
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Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
Posted May 11, 2012 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Siemens develops ABS plastic alternative
Posted May 9, 2012 by Doris de Guzman
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Reduce CO2 and Slow Global Warming?
Posted April 30, 2012 by Willem Post
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Hidroenergia 2012
May 25, 2012, Wroclaw, Poland
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WGC 2012 - 25th World Gas Conference
June 4, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ecwatech 2012
June 4, 2012, Moscow, Russia
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“David,Reserves, potential resources and production are not interchangeable, and apocalyptic statements that depend on conflating them are thus fundamentally flawed. Your cogent analysis makes this crucial distinction well. It just needs a bigger audience.”