British billionaire Richard Branson said on Tuesday he is in talks to set up a fund to help Caribbean nations recently ravaged by Hurricane Irma replace wrecked fossil fuel-dependent utilities with low-carbon renewable energy sources. The British business magnate has approached governments and would rally ...
By supporting new generations of renewable-energy startups Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could create the millions of high-paying jobs that have eluded his Abenomics push.
If financial technology is to reach its potential to advance the global public good, another factor must be accounted for: the environment.
Dramatic progress in renewable electricity is a hugely positive development; but the benefits are most easily grasped in developed, relatively sparsely populated countries.
Morocco's drive to become a regional renewable-energy powerhouse offers a real option for economic development in other Arab countries.
The transition to a green economy now seems to be a certainty, rather than a hopeful aspiration, as growing public acceptance and technological advances make investments in clean energy increasingly practical.
Thanks to lower oil prices, innovation, and economies of scale in the renewable-energy sector, the vision of sustainable energy can now be turned into reality.
We should not underestimate the tremendous potential the sun and wind have for building global wealth and fighting poverty.
The sea is constant, reliable — and scandalously underutilized as a resource for producing green energy.
Despite convulsions in the sector, the clean-tech industry can expect plenty of sunny days ahead.
With our planet teetering on a climate crisis, environmentalists have recently started making the case for going green from the perspective that it's good for business. The Greening of Asia, by Mark L. Clifford 320 pages. Columbia Business School Publishing, Nonfiction. Enter Mark L. Clifford's "The Greening ...
Moves by businesses and citizens to set up renewable energy plants at the regional level have been spreading in the hope of breaking away from nuclear power in light of the man-made disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 plant triggered by the March 2011 ...
