Berlin, Germany-based Bombardier Transportation, the rail equipment division of Canada’s Bombardier Inc. and one of the world’s largest companies in the rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry, is helping India’s Delhi Metro to achieve an impressive world-first linked to environmental performance by becoming the first energy-efficient railway project in the world to receive valuable carbon credits for regenerative braking.
The development of a German clean energy network of hydrogen filling stations is gaining momentum. The automotive manufacturer Daimler AG, formerly DaimlerChrysler, and the strategic consulting group Linde technology announced June 1, 2011 in Stuttgart, Germany that they plan to open 20 new clean energy hydrogen filling stations in Germany over the next three years.
Yesterday, India’s Environmental minister Mr. Jairam Ramesh made it clear that the private corporate sector should not look up to India’s government for innovations in green technology to transfer towards India’s private green economy. Mr. Ramesh’s ministry, which is responsible for planning, promoting, coordinating, and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programs within India, addressed Indian business leaders at the CII Conference on ‘Building a Green Economy’ on Friday.
In what is turning out to be the next big global economic boom, green technology deals and strategic partnerships from Europe to Asia are heating up with or without U.S. participation. Today, Astonfield Renewable Resources (Astonfield), a multi-modality renewable energy company engaging in financing and development of solar, biomass, and waste-to-energy projects in India, announced it is entering into a strategic green technology partnership with Grupo T-Solar Global S.A. (T-Solar), a global Spanish-based solar power producer.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the first female Chancellor of Germany, is anything but an environmentalist. The political party Chancellor Merkel leads, the Christian Democratic Union, is comparable to the Grand Old Party (GOP) in the U.S. with an emphasis on free markets and individual achievement as the factors behind economic prosperity.
