"The study, done by the International Institute for Sustainable Development to determine the position of foreign direct investors on energy pricing and supply in Vietnam, suggests that the Vietnamese Government can be more ambitious in raising power prices for large industrial consumers."
Simon Zadek argues that now is the time to seize the sustainable future in an opinion piece for The Japan Times.
"Kieran Clarke of the International Institute for Sustainable Development says that drawing attention to the social costs of what can appear to be a cheap option for power generation, such as coal, can have a bigger impact on policy than focusing on environmental damage.
"I think that governments are quite rational about this," he told DW. He cited the example of China, where he says the government may not be highly motivated to prevent climate change - but is turning toward renewable power over coal to combat the ongoing problem of air pollution."
"The International Institute for Sustainable Development notes: “The grain required to fill a 25-gallon gas tank with ethanol can feed one person for a year, so the amount of corn used to make [the government-required] 13 billion gallons of ethanol will not feed the almost 500 million people it was feeding in 2000. In addition, because corn is the most common animal feed and has many other uses in the food industry, the price of milk, cheese, eggs, meat, corn-based sweeteners and cereals increased as well.”"
A nice, informal interview with Mark Halle,Vice-President, Strategy, IISD & Executive Director, IISD-Europe. French version here.