This presentation provides information on the following aspects of wind power: the resource; wind technology; global status and costs; wind technology manufacturing; policies promoting wind development; project development issues; benefits of wind power; challenges to wind power development and best practices. Policies described include feed-in tariffs; mandatory renewable energy targets (portfolio standards); government auction or resource concessions; financial incentives (loans, wire charges); developer tax incentives and green power markets.

This article argues that renewable energy is a more cost-effective, flexible, secure, and reliable solution to climate change than nuclear power. The benefits of renewables and microgeneration over nuclear power can be summarised as follows:

renewable sources are quicker to build
they do not leave a trace of radioactive waste that is harmful for the environment
they are abundant and cheap to harvest in the UK as well as globally
they create more jobs, contributing to economic development in the UK and abroad

This report sets out to assess the scientific validity of what it calls the WWF's 'doomsday prophecy', as outlined in the NGO's Living Planet Report 2002. The Danish authors argue that WWF has produced one in a long line of articles, stretching back to Malthus' essay on the principle of population, that predict disaster as a result of human demand on natural resources outstripping supply.The paper outlines the concept of the ecological footprint, one which has developed out of the commonly used carrying capacity measure of sustainable use of natural resources.

From the energy, transport and water sectors, 103 organisations have provided reports under the Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP) to Defra. The reports demonstrate that these organisations are assessing their risks from climate change and in many cases are well-placed to mitigate them. Nearly all of the 103 organisations who reported can be clustered together into nine sectors: aviation; electricity distributors; electricity generators; electricity transmitters; gas transporters; ports and lighthouses; public bodies; road and rail; and water.

Carbon tetrachloride (CTC) is a solvent and cleaning agent used widely across many industry segments. Its high solvency power, low cost and the fact that it is non-flammable made it popular in many cleaning applications.

This presentation introduces the value of the integrated grid.

Generating electric power based on geothermal energy is attractive (i) because of the low CO2 emissions and (ii) because electricity can be produced constantly, independent of the availability of wind or sunlight. These characteristics make geothermal energy an important option for safe, cost-effective and climate friendly power production. The main caveats are that geothermal energy is not available everywhere and that it is uncertain whether the resource will actually be found at a given site.