In Other News (May 6)
- European and Japanese investors have bought slightly over half of London-based Climate Change Capital, which invests in projects to cut carbon emissions in the developing world among other enterprises, Reuters reports.
- Efforts to address the transportation industry's carbon footprint, particularly that from air travel, are examined in a recent article in the New York Times.
- Top climate modelers have gathered in the United Kingdom to plan a revolution in climate prediction but computer power may have to increase before many improvements are seen, according to a story from the BBC.
- Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and nearly two-dozen other senators have asked the Bush administration to waive ethanol production requirements, stories in the Guardian and other media say.
- Venture capitalists put $2.2 billion into clean tech companies last year and prospects for the future look good, according to an upbeat new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, documented by C/Net's news.com.