The Air Resources Board (ARB) held its fourth auction of greenhouse gas allowances on August 16, 2013. The auction included a Current Auction of 2013 allowances and an Advance Auction of 2016 allowances. The Auction […]
State of the world’s climate According to the 2012 State of the Climate report released August, 2013 by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Four major independent datasets show 2012 was among the 10 warmest years […]
TransnetBW, a grid operator in Baden-Württemberg, is beginning operating an environmentally friendly transformer that uses vegetable oil as a coolant. The device will link the 380-kV ultra-high voltage level with the 110-kV grid in the […]
According to Jack Dangermond who led the plenary sessions on the first day, this year in San Diego 12000 people from 130 countries were in San Diego for the 33rd Esri International User Conference. I […]
At the INSPIRE conference in Florence, Ewa Klien, Joachim Rix and Didier Vancutsen gave an overview of an interesting EU project called Plan4business. Plan4business is designed to address the challenges faced by urban and […]
The world is moving toward ubiquitous real-time automated monitoring of environmental parameters such as air quality and water level. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Observation Service (SOS) applicable to use cases in which sensor […]
About a decade ago Dave Sonnen, Global Analyst for Spatial Information at IDC, projected that the locationaware market for geospatial services would exceed the traditional GIS market in 2005/2006. The release of Google Earth in […]
According to Xinhua, China intends to introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. The local taxation authority rather than the environmental protection department will collect the taxes. The government is also looking into taxing energy-intensive […]