• Waste-to-Energy: One Solution for Health and Electrification in Haiti? http://t.co/bwf1kOEV via @WorldwatchEn
  • @wwf working with ici support on leds in turkey and indonesia
  • Great tool on designing & implementing successful #NAMAs by @GIZ's Sebastian Wienges, http://t.co/dwbP1fal
  • interesting ecn analysis on financing #NAMAs, biggest problems controversies re cost (additional or BAU? cost model?) & lack of financing
  • #Fossil Fuels and #Nuclear Still Dominate U.S. International Energy Collaborations http://t.co/y2FB0rNv via @WorldwatchEn
  • clear that many more #namas are in the pipeline; also, many countries not yet willing to share info b/c sensitivities including lack finance
  • @ecofys & @ecn project #mitigationmomentum on status of nama submissions; report comes out today, update before #cop18
  • at ici workshop in bonn, #NAMAs: from planning to implementation; key q: what ambition do funders expect from developing countries?
  • On the way to ICI, LEDS and UNFCCC meetings in Bonn.
  • RT @USGS: [FAQ] Does the production of natural gas from shales produce earthquakes? We get this question often: http://t.co/SaJOyYeh #fracking
Apr 042008

Immer mehr erscheint es als geradezu wider die menschliche Natur, sich dem Charme und der Überzeugungskraft des Barack Obama entziehen zu können. Genau zwei Wochen war es her, dass der Kandidat um die demokratische Präsidentschaftskandidatur schwere politische Niederlagen hatte einstecken müssen, als er die Vorwahlen in Ohio, Rhode Island und Texas gegen Hillary Clinton verlor. Seiner Konkurrentin hatte dies zur politischen Wiederauferstehung verholfen. Dann folgte die schlechte Presse über die nach Ansicht vieler Amerikaner provokanten Bemerkungen des Predigers und engen Vertrauten Obamas, Jeremiah Wright Jr. Doch Obama schafft es selbst über derart ernste Rückschläge mit einer bemerkenswerten Kombination aus Zielstrebigkeit im Handeln und Leichtigkeit in der Darbietung hinwegzukommen. Mit seiner Rede zur Rassenproblematik am 18. März nahm der Senator aus Illinois das Heft wieder selbst in die Hand. DW WORLD

Mar 132008

A derogative remark cost her the job: Briefly after Samantha Power – in an explicitly off-the-record comment – had called Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton “a monster”, she had to resign as Senator Barack Obama’s senior foreign policy advisor, a position she had held since his early days in the U.S. Senate. Ms. Power’s quick assertion that she was frequently on record praising Mrs. Clinton’s leadership, intellect, even her humor and warmth, could save her just as little as the backing of party VIPs like former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski who held that “an expression of regret for using an inappropriate description (…) should have sufficed”. Ms. Power’s comment was seen as potentially too harmful to Mr. Obama’s self-induced clean campaign to keep her in place. DW WORLD