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-- a _kt75 | reprint   Tweet Investment in low carbon technologies fell 11 per cent in 2012, according to a new report by market analysts Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which also shows China has overtaken the US as the world's largest contributor to renewable energy. The report [ 1 ] shows that investment in low carbon technologies is actually holding up pretty well after warnings from the report's authors last January that 2012 would be a "challenging year" for the sector. We took a look at some of the figures to find out how tough economic conditions and investor uncertainty over renewable energy policies in the UK have changed the investment landscape. Overall investment drops The report [ 1 ] shows that overall global investment in low carbon energy dropped by about $30 billion in the space of a year. Comparing investment last year to 2011 may be unfair, as 2011 saw the highest ever rate of investment in the sector. But it is only the second t...

► NEW : see all _kt75 | articles at a glance in the _news database -- a _kt75 | reprint   Tweet Business activity lives within the context of the social and natural environment, and the economic sustainability of business depends on social and environmental sustainability is a graphic that helps to illustrate how business activity belongs to a larger context called society and how both business and society are a part of the larger system of nature on this planet. Business management today is accountable for social and environmental, as well as financial results. Business activity lives within the context of the social and natural environment, and the economic sustainability of business depends on social and environmental sustainability is a graphic that helps to illustrate how business activity belongs to a larger context called society and how both business and society are a part of the larger system of nature on this planet. Business management tod...

-- a _kt75 | reflection  _download Paper: server 1 | server 2  _download Supporting Information: server 1 | server 2  _download troubles: get your free copy Keywords Genuine sustainable development, turnover, sales figures, hype, car makers, China, overhang-effect, overlap-effect. Figures contained: _Annual GDP growth in China 2003-2013 (incl. projections till 2015) _Sales figures of Audi, BMW and VW 2008-2012 _CO 2 -emissions China 2008-2012 _Ground plan of Chinese expressway network 2010 _Annual road fatalities in China 2008-2012 Summary Corporate sales/turnover figures represent the quantitative and qualitative specification of the impacts of any kind on resources of any type. Also here are ‘facts’ and ‘figures’ vehicles typically used to promote, convey and enforce interests in a more or less reliable way. The car industry, with particular consideration of the so-called ‘emerging economies’ (e.g. China), represents an excellent ba...

-- a _kt75 | post    Oil sands (also named: tar sands or, more technically, bituminous sands ) are a kind of unconventional petroleum deposit, i.e. represent fossil energy deposits. From the ir structure oil sands form a loose sand or partially consolidated sandstone containing naturally occurring compositions of sand , clay , and water, saturated with a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum technically referred to as bitumen (or colloquially tar due to its similar appearance, odour and colour) . Oil s ands have been exploited since Paleolithic times but the modern in dustrial (i.e. commercial) mining of this type of fossil fuel deposits has begun in the 1 920ies [ 1 ]. Since that time the mining has contin uously risen and has exper ienced a dramatic incr ease in the most recent years [ 2 ] , [ 3 ]. Acco rdingly, today the total production v olume of tar sands amounts to about 1.9 million barrel per day [ 4 ] and is estimated to conti nue to r i...

-- a _kt75 | note 💾 _d ownload Paper : server 1 | server 2 😐 download troubles? get your free copy Along with the first issue of the Notes in 2013 a number of major development steps have been finalised. First of all and as a consequential step to consistently and consequentially integrate the individual project elements into the _kt75 | project, the Notes – originally the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - have been renamed to _kt75 | notes (on genuine sustainable development). Despite a different name, the key intention to provide recent and comprehensive sustainability information in a compact way remains the same. Accordingly, the present issue addresses topics like: Water and Power Supply Networks Oil Pipeline Projects (Keystone XL) Nuclear Power (Decommissioning in context of the ‘energy turnaround’) etc. More details about the _kt75 | notes are provided in the News section of this issue. Secondly, the technical update o...

-- a _kt75 | reflection  _d ownload Paper : server 1 | server 2  _d ownload Supporting Information : server 1 | server 2    download troubles? get your free copy Keywords Genuine sustainable development, energy turnaround, decommission costs, diversification, alternative energy, smooth transition. Summary Facts and figures - that are vehicles typically used to promote, convey and enforce interests in a more or less reliable way. The recent series of _kt75 | reflections provides facts and figures on the facts and figures with a particular focus on ‘sustainable development’. Essentially, it aims to put facts and figures in a realistic and reliable context to each other and tries to interpret the rationale behind the facts and figures and the way they are supplied. For demonstration purposes selected important facts and figures of four individual cases are surveyed: turnover/sales figures, unemployment [1] , life cycle assessment and alternative energy...