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◊ Urgent market stability reserve: Important for clean energy investment / Karsten Neuhoff, Vox, 7/03/2015 http://www.voxeu.org/article/fixing-europe-s-emissions-trading-schemeThe European Commission proposed the implementation of a Market Stability Reserve as a response to a surplus of allowances in the Emissions Trading System. This column discusses how the Reserve should be designed and whether it could improve the emissions trading. Insight from several models indicates that the Stability Reserve corrects for a number of market failures in the emissions trading...◊ A Bright Future for Clean Technology / Jon Creyts, managing director at Rocky Mountain Institute &#38; Martin Stuchtey Director of the McKinsey Center for Business &#38; Environment, Project Syndicate, 5/03/2015 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/clean-technology-bright-future-by-jon-creyts-and-martin-stuchtey-2015-03Observers might be forgiven for thinking that so-called clean technology's moment in the sun has passed. Over the last two years, many clean-tech equity indexes have performed poorly. In Europe, solar power took a hit after the European Commission decided to phase out subsidies for renewable energy by 2017. The installation of solar panels fell by nearly 60% in Germany in 2013, and by 70% in Italy. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, less than 30% of early-stage venture-capital-funded clean-tech deals were financed...◊ Better Ways to Stop Natural Gas Pipeline Leaks / Andrew Campbell, Energy Institute at Haas blog, 9/03/2015 https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/better-ways-to-stop-natural-gas-pipeline-leaks/Carbon dioxide has received the bulk of policymakers’ attention as the villain of climate change. Now, its henchman methane is facing scrutiny. Methane is an attractive target. It is much nastier than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Over one hundred years, a kilogram of methane has a 28-times greater impact on global warming than a single kilogram of carbon dioxide...