Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The World Meteorological Organization, an agency of the United Nations located at Geneva, Switzerland, is the United Nation’s voice on the state and behavior of the Earth’s atmosphere with regard to the oceans and the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an intergovernmental framework for efforts to address climate change. Because of the nature of the convention – dealing with issues on a global scale coupled with the magnitude of its responsibility – it operates through its many working bodies.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The vehicle built by Tesla Motors Incorporated was the first production battery electric vehicle to travel more than 200 miles per charge. The all-electric Tesla Roadster was unveiled in 2006 and began volume deliveries in early 2008 at a price of $109,000.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The State Grid Corporation of China is a state-owned enterprise approved by the State Council to conduct authorized investment activities. The company’s goal is to provide safe, economical, clean, and sustainable electric power for social and economic development.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The Special Climate Change Fund, or S.C.C.F., was made to finance projects relating to adaptation; technology transfer and capacity building; energy, transport, industry, agriculture, forestry and waste management; and economic diversification. It was first introduced under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2001 to finance activities, programs and measures relating to climate change that are complementary to those funded by the resources allocated to the
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world situated in Bolivia, spanning 10,000 square kilometers in the Southwest Potosi region of the South American country. The Bolivian salt flat is a very rich source of lithium. Being deemed as the “mother lode” of Lithium reserves in the planet, the Salar de Uyuni is said to possess 5,400,000 metric tons of the rare-earth element in its vast expanse, which is nearly double than the lithium reserves of its Chilean neighbor marked at
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Renewable energy credits, also known as renewable energy certificates or green tags or green certificates, are certificates issued by a government agency to a power company which uses renewable energy sources to generate electricity. They indicate the generation of one megawatt hour of electricity came from an eligible source of renewable power.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

A passive house is a well-insulated, virtually air-tight building which has the ability to heat and cool itself, thus reducing energy consumption of the building by as much as 90 percent.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan project – a project which led to the creation of the first atom bomb, where it was tasked to separate the bomb’s plutonium. It is among the national laboratories under the United States Department of Energy.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

A net zero-energy building, or ZEB, is a residential or commercial building with greatly reduced energy needs through efficiency gains. This is achieved as the energy needs of the building are balanced by energy supplied by renewable technologies.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Methane is listed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as one of 18 greenhouse gases linked to global warming and climate change. It has the second-largest retention factor in the panel’s list of long-lived greenhouse gases, next to carbon dioxide.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Masdar City is a six-square kilometer sustainable city in the middle of the desert planned and currently under construction 17 kilometers from downtown Abu Dhabi, an emirate and the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Marine energy, also called as ocean energy or ocean power a category of renewable energy technologies that harness energy from large expanses of water like oceans and seas.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Lithium is the lightest solid metallic element. It is one of the alkali metals in Group 1 of the periodic table. It bears the greatest electrochemical potential energy and provides the largest specific energy per weight. The element has been used in several applications such as in nuclear reactors, where it is being used as a coolant, in ceramics, in medicine and in electronics. It is used as a material for the production of batteries.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

A light-emitting diode is a semiconductor diode that emits light when conducting current. It has a wide variety of applications in lighting and electronic equipment, such in digital watches, calculators, televisions, video disc players and other domestic appliances.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is the United States Department of Energy’s oldest national laboratory. The facility is located on a 200-acre site in the hills of the University of California's Berkeley campus.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The International Renewable Energy Agency, or IRENA, is an international agency that works to promote the widespread and increased adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Greenhouse gases, also known as GHGs, are gases that make up 1 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere, and absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Green purchasing, as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, refers to a system of buying products or services that have a lesser or reduced impact on the environment and health, compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Geothermal power is obtained by harnessing the heat from the Earth's interior. Hot springs, geysers, pools of boiling mud, volcanoes, and fumaroles are the most easily exploited sources.
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