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The next big thing in water
New water technologies are attracting investors as never before. Is this an opportunity or a threat to the existing companies in the market? A new report from GWI takes a closer look.
Copper and other commodity price speculation has returned
The critical part reads, "Excess volatility of commodity prices poses risks to growth. We will consider ways to improve the functioning and transparency of global commodity markets, including considering IOSCO work on commodity derivatives"
Goldman sees 2010 copper price at $5,800 per tonne | Reuters
NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs (G.N) expects the current downward movement in the price of copper to be short-lived amid growing expectations of a recovery in global economic growth, and it targeted copper at $5,800 per tonne by the end of 2010.
World Renewable-Energy Investment to Drop 38% in 2009, IEA Says - Bloomberg.com
June 15 (Bloomberg) -- Investment in renewable energy will probably decline 38 percent this year after dropping 5 percent last year, according to Didier Houssin, the International Energy Agency’s director of energy markets and security.
Energy efficiency outperforming climate investment, says HSBC
The energy efficiency and management sector is outperforming the climate change sector thanks to recent government stimulus measures, according to the latest HSBC Climate Change Index.
UK/Europe power prices
The Anglo-Dutch steel producer, which this week announced the elimination of 2,500 jobs at its UK plants, says the surge in British electricity prices from £24 a megawatt hour to £75 MWh over the past five years has been greater than "virtually anywhere else in Europe". If that is so, Britain's liberalised energy market is serving its users ill.
CESCO industry think tanks forecasts prices will drop even lower
CESCO Executive Director Juan Carlos Guajardo told Reuters in an interview that he saw copper output coming in at about 5.3 million tonnes this year, either unchanged from a year earlier or down as much as 1 percent.
PSA/Peugeot Citroen wants payback from suppliers over raw material costs
Suppliers who squeezed money out of PSA/Peugeot-Citroen last year to compensate for high raw material costs should expect to give some back in 2009
Long term/short term investment conflict builds certainty
Now we are seeing the mirror image of the up cycle, and mines are closing, new projects are being halted and even really good exploration targets and development projects are not being followed up purely through lack of availability of funds. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand what this is building up to as the world economy picks up, as it undoubtedly will. Once demand returns to the market there will not be the supply available to meet it and prices will inevitably soar again. This will happen. The only uncertainty is the timescale.
European copper premiums unlikely to rise
"There's nothing going on. People have stopped buying and it doesn't look any better for the first part of next year either," said a physical trader.
"People don't want to carry too much stock over the year-end but they don't have a lot of choice because of the turndown in demand. If people have got metal the best thing they can do is dump it on warrant and get paid by the warehouses," he said.
Credit crisis make precious metals juniors prime acquisition targets
“Cash is now king and grassroots exploration is ill-advised until market sentiment improves,” Haywood Securities warned junior mining sector investors. Nevertheless, Haywood views current valuations “as a fishing opportunity.”
Solar Market to Hit $100B By 2013, But Price Cuts Looming « Earth2Tech
the solar bubble is about to burst and it could take many incumbent solar players down with it.
Banks urged to go green | Environment | Reuters
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Banks are contributing to global
warming by funding coal and oil exploration, and should adopt
policies that cut their negative impact on the environment,
according to a report by a network of NGOs.
China surges ahead on clean energy spending - energy-fuels - 23 November 2007 - New Scientist Environment
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CHINA is leaving the US in the dust in its spending on clean energy - but it still has plenty to do if it is to shake off its sooty reputation.
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