BusinessGreen.com Most Read – 5 June

From flawed offsets to suspected nuclear weapons research, we run down the stories that have been making it big this week

By BusinessGreen.com staff

05 Jun 2009

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Rainforest

Trees

Friends of the Earth slams "fundamentally flawed" offsetting model

Report argues carbon offset mechanisms are beyond reform and should be scrapped

Solar roof

Report: solar panel prices to plummet

Study predicts solar panel prices will fall by 28 per cent this year as demand falls and silicon supplies increase

Forest

CDM to investigate including forestry and CCS projects

Executive board of UN-backed initiative looking into several reforms intended to streamline and extend offsetting scheme

Electric cars

Tesco to trial electric car charging points

Supermarket giant steps up green push with plans for new "zero-carbon" store

Lasers

US government ignites controversy over NIF laser fusion

Is the world's largest laser a step towards limitless clean energy, or a key component in nuclear weapons research?

Power plant

Updated: Carbon target impasse continues as Bonn talks kick off

US insists that demands for emission cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent by 2020 remain unrealistic

Landfill

Advanced Plasma Power touts international expansion plans

Waste-to-energy firm secures $10m for innovative gasification technology

Concentrating solar thermal plant

India to invest $22bn in bid to become world solar leader

New strategy outlines mandatory use of solar technologies for government and commercial buildings

BT tower

Exclusive: BT sticks with wind farm plans - for the time being

Re-evaluation of business case put on hold until Carbon Reduction Commitment consultation released in October

Building site

Home Depot rejects green shareholder resolution

But Connecticut State Treasurer's Office confident that talks on energy-efficiency strategy could follow

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