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Jan 20
ABU DHABI – World leaders raised a fresh alarm on global warming, urging international action to increase use of clean energy at a four-day forum that opened in the emirate on Monday.
“If we dont act now, our coral reefs and rainforests will die, desert countries will become unbearably hot and low lying countries like the Maldives, will slip beneath the rising seas,” said the president of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed.
“Tackling climate change is not like dealing with other global issues, such as trade or disarmament. We do not have the luxury of time to meet, year after year, in endless negotiations,” the leader of the low-lying Indian Ocean nation told participants at the World Future Energy Summit.
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Energy conference looks for brave new world
Filed under NewsJan 17ABU DHABI: The events accompanying the third World Future Energy Summit slip into gear on Sunday as the attending delegates and media tour the Masdar site in Abu Dhabi.
Billed as the single most important event of its kind worldwide for stakeholders in energy and environment, the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) takes place each year in Abu Dhabi where the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) based itself in February 2009. WFES which along with being a conference is a coming together of leaders in the renewable energy fields stages energy and future environment exhibitions during its four-day run.
The organizers intend to provide a meeting place, and an environment to encourage collaboration and a cross fertilization of ideas and technology to tackle policy, innovation and investment issues surrounding renewable energy. Masdar city is the physical result.
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APEC eyes trans-Pacific free-trade zone
Filed under NewsNov 13SINGAPORE – Asia-Pacific economies pledged Thursday to pursue a giant free-trade zone covering 2.6 billion people and called for easier access to green technology to combat climate change.
Foreign and trade ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group said they would direct their officials to study ways to achieve the long-term vision for a “Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific”, or FTAAP.
The proposed area would cover APECs 21 member economies, stretching from Chile to China via the United States. They account for 40 percent of the worlds population of 6.7 billion people and over half its economic output. “APEC will work towards reducing barriers not only within APEC, but also with other non-APEC economies,” the ministers said in a statement ahead of a leaders summit this weekend to be attended by US President Barack Obama.
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Oct 28
JEDDAH – A delegation of 25 UK companies from different sectors under Noel Johnston, manager of “Invest Northern Ireland Mission,” held products exhibition at the British consulate here for a networking event on Monday.
Johnston said the main aim of the delegation was to meet partners and at the same time seek distributors for their products.
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Oct 14
JEDDAH – GE Energy calls for diversification of energy sources in Saudi Arabia as well as in the region to come to grips with the growing demand.
Stephen R. Bolze, president & CEO of GE Power and Water, said on Monday that amid ever-increasing need for water and electricity as population grows and economic development expands, emphasis should be given on investment in technologies which would lead to diverse solutions on enhancing the development of thermal renewable energy and gasification, among others.
He emphasized that ongoing research should be done locally as some opportunities emerge for innovative technologies to address the Kingdoms power and water needs.
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Oct 14
JEDDAH – GE Energy calls for diversification of energy sources in Saudi Arabia as well as in the region to come to grips with the growing demand.
Stephen R. Bolze, president & CEO of GE Power and Water, said on Monday that amid ever-increasing need for water and electricity as population grows and economic development expands, emphasis should be given on investment in technologies which would lead to diverse solutions on enhancing the development of thermal renewable energy and gasification, among others.
He emphasized that ongoing research should be done locally as some opportunities emerge for innovative technologies to address the Kingdoms power and water needs.
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Aug 29
JEDDAH: Investment in green technology has gone far beyond earth closets and recycled brown paper bags, admirable first steps though they were. When a major global industrial player commits to it to the extent that the corporate giant Siemens AG has, that alone is a convincing argument that the world is looking for cleaner ways of producing energy other than burning fossil fuels. Moreover, it is a very strong indication that the alternative power generation market is also commercially viable.
Siemens has formed a team with Munich Re, the German insurer, Deutsche Bank, utilities RWE and Eon to form a company to explore the technical and geopolitical challenges of building hectares of solar mirrors in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East to prove concentrating solar power technology (CSP) on a large scale: the Desertec Project. The project is out to prove both the economic viability of solar power and the political and PR benefits that go with it.
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Aug 2
BERLIN – German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will pledge to create 4 million new jobs by 2020 in a detailed policy paper due on Monday meant to lift his flagging election campaign. Steinmeier, who is leading the Social Democrats into next months election, will outline his ideas on adding new jobs in the renewable energy, healthcare and services industries. “We will show that with smart policies Germany can create a total of 4 million new jobs in the next decade,” Steinmeier wrote in his 67-page paper to be presented on Monday, excerpts of which were published in Der Spiegel news magazine on Saturday.
“We want to conquer unemployment by 2020,” said Steinmeier, whose centre-left SPD is trailing Chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives in polls ahead of the Sept. 27 election. The two parties ruled jointly in a grand coalition the last four years. Steinmeiers SPD is about 10 percentage points behind Merkels Christian Democrats and their Christian Social Union Bavarian sister party in opinion polls. Merkel is on a 2-1/2 week holiday to Aug. 12.
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Jul 3
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will be a partner of a major European initiative called Green Public Diplomacy, which calls for intensified efforts to create green environment, control pollution on a global level, adopt environmental-friendly technology and encourage journalists to write more on environmental issues, according to Swedish Ambassador Jan Thesleff.
Thesleff said Sweden has teamed up with the King Saud University and Saudi Research and Publication Company to hold a major seminar on climate change and the environment later this year as part of the initiative.
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