Congratulations for the United Arab Emirates, the reason is the next big project called Masdar City, it will be develop in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. To develop the city’s infrastructure and maintenance has a budget around $22 billion dollars.

The project is supported by the organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF).The responsible company of this project is Abu Dhabi Future Energy, and one of the objectives of this city, is develop a sustainable culture in Middle East, through a new community with zero emission system. This city going to have a solar energy supply for its necessities. In this sense, Dr Sultan Ali Jaber, CEO of Masdar, said: “We are creating a city where residents and commuters will live the highest quality of life with the lowest environmental footprint. Masdar City will become the world’s hub for future energy. By taking sustainable development and living to a new level, it will lead the world in understanding how all future cities should be built.”

With this kind of project, the markets could find the big possibilities between the business and the sustainable culture.

Via: Sustainable Affairs

|Manuel Torres Laveaga

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The europens and its Kyoto Protocol, have a challenge ahead. The EU15 can fulfill its objective of Kyoto Protocol for 2012, consisting of one reducing to the gas discharges of effect conservatory to 8 per 100 below the 1990 levels, well, just if the Member States now apply all the anticipated additional policies, according to indicates to the last report (november.2007) of the European Environment Agency.

The report has special importance given the just a short time remaining one before the “first period of commitment” of the Kyoto Protocol, which extends from 2008 to 2012.

The report displays an evaluation of the data corresponding to period 1990-2005, and evaluates the projections of the Member Stateson the future emissions, offering good indicators about the advances obtained in the accomplishment of the objectives of Kyoto Protocol.

According to the reports:

- The emissions of the EU15 were reduced between 2004 and 2005 in 0.8 per 100.
- The emissions of the EU15 reached an inferior level in 2 per 100 to the year of reference of Kyoto Protocol.

Being based on projections of the Member States, the report indicates that the existing policies and national measures going to reduce to the gas discharges of effect conservatory of the EU15 in 4,0 per 100 with respect to the year of reference. If the additional policies and national measures are considered (that is to say, those that are still predicted but not they apply), the diminution will be of another 3,9 per 100. The anticipated use of the mechanisms of Kyoto Protocol on the part of ten of the countries of the EU15 will reduce the Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2,5 per 100 additional. The europeans Governments have reserved 2 900 million €uros to such aim.

According to the report, the market for trading carbon dioxide emissions within the Kyoto Protocol will be the main instrument, since it will allow important reductions of the emissions between 2008 and 2012. Esteem that going to obtain a reduction of at least 3,4 per 100, partly already reflected in the projections of some States members. It could represent at least 1,3 per 100 additional the reduction of 11,4 per 100 of the emissions of the year of reference in the EU15.

Interesting reports to Download …

• World Oil Outlook. OPEC
  
• MEMO.European Strategic Energy Technology.Q.-07-494
• pachauri-17-november-2007
• Greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe 2007
• 2007 European Strategic Energy Technology full
• 2007 European Strategic Energy Technology summary
• 2007 European Strategic Energy Technology.capacity map
• 2007 European Strategic Energy Technology.technology map
• Annex European Strategic Energy Technology.TP-report

Reports from each country …

Estonia|Austria|Denmark|Czech Republic|Cyprus|Croatia|Belgium|Finland |
France|Germany|Hungary|Iceland|Ireland|Italy|Latvia|Libya|Liechtenstein| Lithuania|Luxembourg|Malta|Netherlands|Norway|Poland|Portugal|Romania|Slovak Republic|Slovenia|Spain|Sweden|Switzerland|Turkey|United Kingdom|

|Manuel Torres Laveaga