Climate Solutions
Climate Initiatives
Global Green USA’s Coalition for Resource Recovery helps businesses increase profits by transforming waste into assets. The Coalition identifies and promotes effective waste diversion technologies and programs through conducting pilots.
Global Solar Report Card
The report, which was released for the first time last year by Green Cross International Founder Mikhail Gorbachev, is a first-of-its-kind country-by-country evaluation of solar energy policies. The aim of the report is to raise awareness among policymakers, media and the public-at-large by grading the effectiveness of each country’s policies every year.
Current solar technology has the ability to deliver 4 times the annual world demand for power while creating new jobs in manufacturing and installations. Sadly, less than 1% of global energy is produced from solar. Governments must foster environments that are conducive to solar markets growth. The Global Solar Report Cards offer a snapshot of 16 countries' efforts to date and policy frameworks.
Red Carpet, Green Cars
Each year around the Academy Awards, Global Green helps bring attention to the importance of green building and clean cars as key solutions to global warming. Our annual Pre-Oscar Party kicks off the Red Carpet/Green Cars Oscar campaign, which provides fuel-efficient vehicles for celebrities attending the Oscars in lieu of gas-guzzling limousines.
Pole Expeditions
Both the Arctic, the Antarctic, and the areas surrounding them, are showing definitive signs of global warming. Global Green USA, in conjunction with other Green Cross International affiliates and it's own board member Sebastian Copeland, is bringing attention to these areas through expeditions that hilight the imminent danger caused by these warming trends.
Global Solar Fund
Global Green and Green Cross International first presented the call for a $50 billion global solar fund in Bonn at the Intergovernmental Renewables 2004 conference. The Fund's objective is to highlight a way to drive down the cost of solar for the energy poor in the developing world, and to reduce peak demand in urban centers.
Publications
ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CLEAN POWER AND THE SMART GRID
Our report highlights the need for integrated strategies in reducing energy use, increased distributed renewable energy generation, and a more intelligent electrical grid and explores the role of the “smart grid” in developing a more sustainable, energy efficient future.
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Global Solar Report Card
The Global Solar Report Card by Global Green USA and Green Cross International outlines successes and failures in 16 countries’ (and the state of California’s) efforts in designing promising policy frameworks for sustained solar development. It finds all countries still in the early phases of solar deployment. The ranking is based on a 100-point system that allocates points for the amount of solar installed so far, as well as for drivers of future growth, including financial and regulatory incentives, and educational and advocacy efforts.
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