Entries from January 2010

January 14, 2010

Carbon on Company Balance Sheets?

Despite the fizzle after the great fanfare of the Copenhagen Summit, many companies remain intensely focused on the strategic implications of climate change. Some believe that a requirement to monitor, report and reduce their carbon emissions is coming and is just a question of time. Indeed, some observers believe that carbon accounting is destined to be embedded [...]

January 9, 2010

Energy = Strategy at Google

Google’s focus on energy is strategic. And it suggests parallels with other corporate strategic moves that ran counter to conventional wisdom but ended up proving very shrewd.

January 5, 2010

Where is Clean Tech Heading in 2010?

Sorry, I can’t say I know yet where clean tech is heading in 2010. I’m still getting reoriented after the holiday. But early signs are that, as usual, both the hype and the backlash against the hype, are a bit overblown. The Economist had a nice assessment of the post-Copenhagen landscape: mixed, essentially. On the [...]