From Reuters.com
Graphic: Thin-film solar cells
Dow Chemical plans to sell a new rooftop shingle next year that converts sunlight into electricity and can be integrated with standard asphalt shingles. It is expected to generate $5 billion in revenue by 2015. For more Green Business news click here.
Graphic: China emissions targets
An international goal to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius appears unreachable even if China embarks on a vast effort to tame its growing greenhouse gas emissions, a Beijing think-tank has said.
How come we don’t see many of these charts before 2007? I mean like for the past 50 years?? I wonder who was the top CO2 emission country then?
Expanding our environment coverage
When the Reuters.com editorial and business teams met last year to frame our priorities for 2009, one of the ideas that most excited us was an expansion of our environment section. Our environment correspondents around the world were already ramping up their coverage of the business of clean technology, anticipating increased demand for news about how companies were addressing the challenges of climate change and pollution. This was before the election of President Obama and the promise of economic stimulus money for environmental projects.
So the timing felt right when we relaunched our Environment section as Green Business last week. You’ll still find all the news that was on the old page, from correspondents such as Oslo-based Alister Doyle and Peter Henderson in San Francisco. But we’ve added more financial content and news from partners with complementary coverage.
Here’s a quick tour of the page: 1: Business news from correspondents such as Nichola Groom, who covers alternative energy out of Los Angeles.
2: Featured stories from our partners GreenBiz.com, Matter Network, Wired, Earth2Tech and IDG.
3: The Reuters Global Green Portfolio, an index of green stocks with a related blog and discussion group.
4: General environment news. Here’s where you’ll find the news from the old Environment page.
5: Green Business Topics: News from our partners divided into 10 themed sections.
P.S. My brother-in-law (fondly known as “Dr. Megadoom and an environmental engineer)warned of global warming 40 years ago. We’ve done nothing. We haven’t even had the dialogue in 30 years. Now we’ve come full circle…. We are at the same point we were at in 1979.
They’ve had these for years. Wake up, America and wake up ,Reuters. Dow is way behind times.