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Subscribe- On the heels of the Security and Exchange Commission's vote to require companies report risks from climate change to stockholders, tracking scope 3 emissions by businesses is turning into the next big thing. And that's going to impact businesses of all sizes. More than half of Carbon Disclosure Project members said they would stop working with suppliers who do not manage their carbon.
- Point Carbon, an analyst firm focusing on carbon markets, predicts that the worldwide carbon market will grow 33 percent in 2010. The U.S. regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is set to increase by 29 percent this year, to $2.2 billion. Of course, that's without a global agreement to follow the Kyoto Protocol and without U.S. carbon legislation, which Rep. Ed Markey says will be passed by the end of the year.
- In Los Angeles, the city council is considering a bill that would require rainwater capture and re-use. The bill would affect all new homes. The bill would allow developers to pay into a fund that would go toward low-impact developments that mitigate the impact of stormwater runoff.
- More and more, the mainstream media are getting into the sustainable groove. The San Jose Mercury News ran a long feature on the explosive growth of cleantech in Silicon Valley that mentions industry veterans such as Cisco and startups such as EcoFactor. It notes that San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, who wants to create 25,000 new cleantech jobs by 2022, on top of 7,000 current ones.
- Urban agriculture continues to attract the eyes (and dollars) of many in the New Economy--though there is some question about the need for a high-tech solution to food. Most recently, Robert. F Kennedy threw his weight behind vertical farms, specifically Valcent's Verticrop.
- The Boardman power plant in Oregon may be the state's largest polluter, thanks to its use of millions of tons of coal each year, and it may have to close by 2020, according to PGE. But the discussion about how to replace all that power isn't going away anytime soon. Now the utility that owns Boardman is considering using biomass to replace some of the coal burnt there.
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