Strategies for Guiding the State in a Carbon-Constrained World The Michigan at a Climate Crossroads: Strategies for Guiding the State in a Carbon- Constrained World Project (MCCP) team developed state-level greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction policies for the State of Michigan to consider as it faces an emerging carbon-constrained world. The MCCP builds upon the results of the Michigan Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990 and 2002, conducted by the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan. Approximately 180 regional stakeholders representing the industrial, commercial, higher education, government, and non-profit sectors provided the MCCP team with input and feedback throughout the duration of the project. The MCCP team used the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) State Inventory Tool, the Energy 2020 model, and the Regional Economic Modeling, Inc. (REMI) Policy Insight Tool to calculate potential GHG emission reductions and economic impacts of state-level policies.

When utility and energy execs gathered at the Edison Electric Institute's annual conference to discuss how to combat climate change, they all shed their ties. They were amiable and informal, all part of their willingness to embrace the hottest topic now permeating the energy sector. Interestingly, all the corporate chiefs agreed that the phenomenon is real and that it must be immediately addressed. They disagreed, albeit politely, as to how to fix the matter. The common thread running among the group is that technology will win this battle and that the effort will be a public-private endeavor. In the end, it will require billions of dollars and decades of work to overcome.

ATLANTA - ASHRAE will play a primary role in former President Bill Clinton's initiative to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings by providing design guidance and tools to reach energy efficiency targets. On May 16, Clinton announced the creation of a global Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, a project of the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI). This program brings together four of the world's largest energy service companies, five of the world's largest banks, and 16 of the world's largest cities in a landmark program designed to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings.

"Build it in Michigan," shouts the headline from a new brochure printed by NextEnergy, the state of Michigan's alternative energy promotion group. NextEnergy used 1,000 copies of the report to tout Michigan's future as a wind energy equipment manufacturing center at last week's Windpower 2007 Conference and Exhibition, the world's largest annual wind energy event, which was held in Los Angeles.

It was always going to happen. Like a lover fearful they are about to get dumped for a younger rival, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) appears to have its scissors poised and ready to cut up the rest of the world's suits unless it stops flirting with those wanton biofuels.