Ethical investment choices are causing businesses to change their practices. The green movement has made its way to corporate ethics.
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Investors Influencing Green Practices
Video: Venture Capitalists Urge Congress To Extend Renewable Tax Credits
Venture capitalists and others push Congress to extend investment and production tax credits for renewable energy as a needed tool to continue investment in thesetechnologies and project as a means to boost the US economy.
Green Industry Investments Hit $1 Trillion
The Dow Jones Financial News recently called 2008 "the year to forget" and with the credit crunch from the sub-prime mortgage crisis, even politicians are talking about recession--something practically unheard of in an election year.
Video: Government, Business and Financial Outlook for Renewable Energy
Panelists describe challenges and opportunities for development of affordable renewable energy sources from energy security, climate, and other perspectives. Inparticular, Katrina Landis describes BP's overall business plans in the suite of renewable energy options and John Cavalier of Credit Suisse outlines what the investment community is thinking about renewable energy.
Video: Clean Energy VC say what they are investing in
Four top VCs reveal where they were placing their cleantech bets at GoingGreen. Topping the list were energy efficiency, utility scale projects,building materials and transport.
Video -- A Perspective On Climate Change From The Cato Institute
Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow of the libertarian Cato Institute, answers several questions from Energy Policy TV on his perspective on dealing with climate change.
Video: Keynote Address by Vinod Khosla
A leading clean energy venture capitalist, Khosla describes steps that should be taken to address global climate change.
Video: "Achieving a Low Carbon Future: Can Sustainability and Prosperity Coexist?"
By now, there is general agreement that if we are going to mitigate the worst effects of climate change we must achieve at least a 70% cut in global emissions by the year 2050, but there is little agreement on how to reach that goal. Leading utility companies and energy investors discuss their vision for a low-carbon future, and where they are putting money to achieve it.