Mexico: Catholic Church notes social roots of global warming | EnerPub - Energy Publisher

“We must not forget that the environmental issue is a social problem, and for this reason, as pointed out in the document prepared by the Church for the meeting, entitled 'Climate change in the light of Caritas in Veritate and the social doctrine of the Church', one must distinguish man's concern for nature and the fight against climate change from the interests of political and economic groups.”

David Kroodsma: What Are CEOs Doing at COP16??? - VIDEO

On the opening night of COP16 (the 16th U.N. climate "Conference of the Parties) in Cancun, Mexico, I sat in a hotel conference room and listened to the President of Mexico, the CEO of Coca-Cola, the CEO of Dow Chemical, the CEO of Duke Energy, and the CEO of FEMSA (Mexico's largest beverage distributor) elegantly and persuasively argue:

1. Economic development and fighting climate change are not mutually exclusive.
2. Businesses want to act.

U.A.E., Qatar Seek UN Credits to Shrink CO2 Footprints - BusinessWeek

Abu Dhabi, the capital city that holds almost all the U.A.E.’s oil reserves, qualified for UN credits known as offsets, designed to encourage richer countries to finance carbon-reductions in developing nations. China and India together have supplied 68 percent of UN offsets for far.

The two UN registered projects in Abu Dhabi stand to receive 2.5 million credits through 2018. With UN Certified Emission Reductions known as CERs trading today at 11.67 euros ($15.18) a ton on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London, the U.A.E.’s credits would be valued at about 29.2 million euros.

Beyond Google, an Energy Policy Center - NYTimes.com

Dan W. Reicher, a former assistant secretary of energy, has left Google, where he spent the last four years as director of climate change and energy initiatives.
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Now Mr. Reicher is moving on to Stanford, where he will be the executive director of a new interdisciplinary center for energy policy and finance that will straddle the law school (where Mr. Reicher earned a degree) and the business school. The new center was created with a $7 million donation from Thomas Steyer and his wife, Kat Taylor, both Stanford alumni. Mr. Steyer was co-chairman of the campaign to defeat Proposition 23, which would have rolled back California’s clean energy mandate.
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“Policy is so critical, and it’s got to be policy that leverages capital,’’ said Mr. Reicher, who will teach in the law and business schools and conduct research.