I hope some day we pay enough attention to water and water helath. We use to take it for granted. What would it happen the day hat mostly of the water does not get suitable enough for human life?

If we look at the UN Human Development Index, as well as the WEF Competitiveness Report and Yale’s Environmental Performance index, all in context, we can see that great progress has been made. This is thanks to the fact that sustainable development and climate change have finally made it into the political agenda. So far, [...]

I have not studied Colorado in detail; however, my impression from prior readings is that Colorado is one of the leaders behind California (where I lived for 35 years) but ahead of Maryland (where I live now). Furthermore, you have NREL which is doing much good work. As you said, this has attracted clean energy [...]

Agree with Eduardo’s opinion that we need to promote the debate with people inserted. Since it is expensive to come to your country, I depend on you to promote. However, if cost was no obstacle, I would be happy to go anywhere to promote the message. One of the companies in our incubator has secured [...]

Hi Bjorn, I would agree with you that subsidy is necessary until costs go down as economies of scale go up. I think many state governments (at least in the US) are aware of the positives and negatives of clean energy technologies. Take for example the state of Colorado. The governor has established the Governor’s [...]

Not in favor of Cap and Trade. Economic development and jobs can suffer from too much government regulation. Make clean tech work on an economic playing field and it will be adopted and made the standard.

For me Cap and Trade is a very good idea, and we have a lot of good projects around the world. In theory works well, but how to monitor it effectively? How to take care of corruption? And even the sustainability of that in periods of intense economic crisis? Will this model running in next [...]

One good aspect of cap and trade is that rich countries pay when they exceed their assigned cap of greenhouse gas emmission and poor countries can receive money to build clean power generation. In the US, cap and trade is perceived as being a “hidden” tax while it actually is more like a distribution mechanism [...]