Il fatto che ci siano 4 mila iscritti alla massoneria che sono tesserati del Pd e’ “una forzatura poetica di un grande giornalista”, (Alberto Statera di Repubblica n.d.r) “noi non facciamo censimenti: sicuramente si puo’ dire che ci sono personaggi che si muovono tanto a destra quanto a sinistra”. Lo ha detto il gran maestro del Grande Oriente d’Italia, Gustavo Raffi, intervistato da Lucia Annunziata a ‘In mezz’ora’. della Loggia di palazzo Giustiniani Riferendosi alla vicenda che ha coinvolto un dirigente locale del Pd e che ha portato alla decisione del partito di sospendere temporaneamente i massoni, Raffi ha spiegato che “potrebbero essere di piu’ o di meno, ma un’affermazione del genere presuppone a monte un censimento che noi non facciamo e non abbiamo mai fatto. Stesso discorso delle probabilita’ - ha continuato - vale per il Pdl”. (AGI)

Naranyana Kocherlakota, presidente Federal Reserve di Minneapolis, ha dichiarato pochi giorni fa che ”c’e’ una quantita’ di moneta nettamente superiore all’offerta di merci disponibili, che puo’ generare una pressione al rialzo sui prezzi e autoalimentare le aspettative inflazionistiche dei consumatori”. La Clean Economy tarda ad arrivare, speriamo non arrivi troppo tardi…

Dal 6 al 18 dicembre 2009 a Copenhagen avrà la luogo la Climate Conference, in qualche modo un seguito di Kyoto e quindi momento cruciale sul futuro (della sostenibilità come moda, ma soprattutto del mondo). Clean Economy scommette su questa sorta di “giorno del giudizio” per la sostenibilità a livello mondiale e anche l’edizione Magazine dedicherà ampio spazio a questo avvenimento. Restate sintonizzati.

POLAND - Poznan, December 12 - The annual UN climate change conference ended shortly before 3:00 am today in Poznan with a commitment from governments to shift into full negotiating mode next year in order to shape a effective international response to climate change, to be agreed in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.

Negotiators agreed that the board of the Kyoto Protocol’s Adaptation Fund would have the legal capacity to grant developing countries direct access to about $60 million to help them adapt to the effects of global warming.

Until now, the Adaptation Fund board could not operate because it was not allowed to approve and sign such contracts.

The Adaptation Fund is fed by voluntary contributions and a two percent share of proceeds from the protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism. The CDM allows the industrial nations governed by the protocol to receive credit towards their emissions limits by investing in green projects in developing countries.

But governments were unable to reach consensus on scaling up funding for adaptation by agreeing to put a levy on the other two Kyoto Protocol mechanisms, Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading.

Progress was made in the area of technology with the endorsement of the Global Environment Facility’s “Poznan Strategic Programme on Technology Transfer.”

The aim of this program is to scale up the level of investment by leveraging private investments that developing countries need for climate mitigation and adaptation technologies.

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SOUTH KOREA - Seoul, Sep 11 - The South Korean government and private companies plan to invest a combined 3 trillion won (US$2.7 billion) to develop clean energy resources over the next five years, officials said Thursday.

The blueprint, outlined at the “green energy development strategy” meeting at the presidential office, calls for the flow of funds into key technology and production support projects that could increase the country’s use of clean, reusable energy. Continua a leggere questo articolo…

EU ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) dominates with 70% of global carbon transactions, worth €30bn.

The global carbon market has generated almost as much money in the first half of this year as it did throughout the whole of 2007, according to Point Carbon, the leading provider of market intelligence, news, analysis, forecasting and advisory services for the energy and environmental markets. A total of 1.8 Gt CO2e was traded globally in the first half of this year, worth some €38bn ($59bn), compared to €40bn for all of 2007. The aggregate worth of transactions in the first half of this year is already a full 94 percent of the value for all transactions in 2007. This is due to several factors, notably a higher average carbon price of €20.61 per tonne CO2e, up from €13.36 over the same period last year. Healthy EUA and secondary CER volume growth has also contributed. Continua a leggere questo articolo…