Obama picks OSU professor to head science agency NOAA.
| Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), is a mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol for promoting technology transfer and investment from industrialized countries to the developing world for projects focused on mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases. It provides for industrialized countries to invest in emission-reducing projects in developing countries and to use the resulting Certified Emissions Reductions [.] |
| Obama taps Harvard physicist as science adviser. In a sign that President-elect Barack Obama intends to elevate science to greater prominence, John P. Holdren, a Harvard physicist widely recognized for his leadership on energy policy and climate change, will be appointed White House science adviser this weekend. |
| Obama names education chief, focuses on economy CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-electBarack Obama on Tuesday called the high U.S. school dropout rate “economically untenable” and said making schools more competitive would be a top job of his education secretary.Saying the road to jobs and growth begins in the classroom, Obama announced Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan — a longtime basketball partner and friend — as his choice for education secretary. He charged Duncan with improving America’s teachers and schools to help the United States become more competitive. |
| Restraints planned for coal-fired plants. Environmental regulators are laying the groundwork for tougher controls on new coal-fired power plants in the administration of president-elect Barack Obama. |
| Obama picks OSU professor to head science agency NOAA. Oregon State University professor Jane Lubchenco, an internationally known marine ecologist who is deeply concerned about climate change and overfishing, has been picked by President-elect Barack Obama to head the NOAA. |
| Los Angeles Seeks to Add 1.3 Gigawatts of Solar Power by 2020 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently announced plans for Los Angeles to supply 10% of its electricity generation from solar power. Dubbed “Solar LA”, the ambitious plan would create the largest installed base of solar power of any city in the world. Mayor Villaraigosa told reporters at the plan’s unveiling last month, “Our solar initiative is the largest of any kind anywhere in the world. When it takes full effect, LA will have 1,280 megawatts more capacity — more than exists in the entire United States today.” |
| Future Perspectives for Renewable Energy in India India is facing an acute energy scarcity which is hampering its industrial growth and economic progress. Setting up of new power plants is inevitably dependent on import of highly volatile fossil fuels. Thus, it is essential to tackle the energy crisis through judicious utilization of abundant the renewable energy resources, such as biomass energy, [.] |