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on Dec. 1,” biofuelsdigest.com, 28 November 2012; Thailand
from M. Sapp, “Thailand rolls out B5 mandate as palm oil supplies
increase,” biofuelsdigest.com, 7 November 2012; United States
from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Proposes 2013
Renewable Fuel Standards, January 2013, at www.epa.gov/otaq/
fuels/renewablefuels/documents/420f13007.pdf.
89 J. Lane, “Is the EU Abandoning Biofuels?”
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 19 September 2012; Ministry of
Life, “Berlakovich: Introduction of E10 is temporarily suspended,”
17 September 2012, at www.lebensministerium.at/presse/
umwelt/120917E10.html.
90 Ministry of Life, op. cit. note 89.
91 N. Nguyen, “Request to Waive U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard
Denied by EPA,” RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 19 November
2012.
92 A. Herndon, “Cellulosic Biofuel to Surge in 2013 as First Plants
Open,” Bloomberg.com, 11 December 2012.
93 U.S. Department of Energy, “Alternative Fuels Data Center:
Federal Laws and Incentives,” at www.afdc.energy.gov/laws/
fed_summary.
94 IEA/IRENA, Global Renewable Energy Policies and Measures
Database, “Australian Biofuels Investment Readiness Program,”
12 December 2012.
95 S. Nielsen, “Brazil Doubling Sugar-Cane Biomass Research Plan
to $988 Million,” Bloomberg.com, 19 September 2012.
96 New Zealand from J. Lane, “Biofuels Mandates Around the
World: 2012,” biofuelsdigest.com, 22 November 2012; United
Kingdom from HM Revenue & Customs, “Biofuels and other fuel
substitutes,” at http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk; UKPia, “Biofuels in
the UK,” February 2012, at www.ukpia.com/Libraries/Download/
biofuels_in_the_UK_February_2012.sflb.ashx.
97 “Directive 2009/28/EC,” Official Journal of the European Union,
23 April 2009, at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.
do?uri=Oj:L:2009:140:0016:0062:en:PDF.
98 IEA, Tracking Clean Energy Progress (Paris: 2012); T. McCue,
“Worldwide Electric Vehicle Sales to Reach 3.8 Million Annually by
2020,” Forbes, 3 January 2013.
99 “India Sets National Electric Vehicle Targets,”
SustainableBusiness.com, 14 January 2013.
100 Italy from Foundation REEF, “100% energia verde,” at www.
centopercentoverde.org/pages/100_verde.php; trans-Europe
from Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, “EKOenergy:
network and label,” at www.ekoenergy.org/about-us; Canada
from Center for Resource Solutions, “Green-e Energy,” at www.
green-e.org/getcert_re.shtml; Germany from Energievision E.V.,
“OK Power,” at www.ok-power.de/home.html.
101 World Future Council, From Vision to Action: A Workshop Report on
100% Renewable Energies in European Regions (Hamburg: March
2013), pp. 36–37; U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
“Clean Energy Policy Analyses: Analysis of the Status and
Impact of Clean Energy Policies at the Local Level” (Boulder, CO:
December 2010).
102 India from “Solar Cities in India,” greenworldinvestor.com,
September 2012, and from “Solar water heaters must in all Surat
buildings,” The Times of India, September 2012; Japan from World
Wind Energy Association (WWEA), “Energy Policy Reform and
Community Power in Japan,” WWEA Quarterly Bulletin, October
2012, p. 26, and from Noriaki Yamashita and Shota Furuya, “New
Japanese Energy Strategy and FIT – National and Local Prospects
and Barriers,” presentation at Freie Universität Berlin and ISEP,
Reform Workshop, Salzburg, Austria, 29 August 2012, at www.
polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/veranstaltungen_ab_2012/pdfs_salzburg/NoriShota.pdf.
103 The Urban-LEDS project with UN-HABITAT and ICLEI as implementation
partners, funded by the European Commission. See
www.urban-leds.org.
104 EU Covenant of Mayors, “Signatories,” www.covenantofmayors.
eu/about/signatories_en.html, viewed March 2013.
105 “City Utility Push Germany’s Switch to Renewables,”
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 4 October 2012. Several U.S.
cities, including San Francisco in California, Cincinnati in Ohio,
and Oak Park and Evanston in Illinois, committed in 2012 to
purchasing 100% renewable power under community aggregation
programmes, per The Solar Foundation, “Community
Choice Aggregation Fact Sheet,” January 2013, at www.
thesolarfoundation.org/sites/thesolarfoundation.org/files/
TSF_CCAfactsheet_Final.pdf.
106 City of Copenhagen, Climate & Environment, “CPH 2025
Climate Plan” (Copenhagen: 23 August 23 2012), pp. 7–10;
Energy Cities, “Frederikshavn’s New Year wish: 100 % fossil
free in 2030,” 21 December 2012, at www.energy-cities.eu/
Frederikshavn-s-New-Year-wish-100.
107 City of Seattle, “Seattle Climate Action Plan” (Seattle: December
2012), at http://cosgreenspace.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/GRCReport_Exec-Summary-1-29-13.pdf.
108 “Japan to build world’s largest offshore wind farm,” New Scientist,
16 January 2013.
109 South Korea from RTCC, “Mayor of Seoul aims to cancel out a
nuclear power plant with climate actions,” October 2012, at www.
rtcc.org; China from Shanghai City Government, “Shanghai New
Energy 12th five-year plan” (Shanghai: January 2012), at www.
shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node2314/node25307/node25455/
node25459/u21ai569188.html, and from “Shanghai announces
new-energy plan,” eco-urbanliving.com, 5 January 2012.
110 Institute for Local Self-Reliance, “U.S. CLEAN Programs Where
Are We Now? What Have We Learned?” (Washington, DC: June
2012); Marin from MCE Clean Energy. "Marin Energy Authority,
Feed-In Tariff for Distributed Renewable Generation (FIT)",
November 2012, at https://mcecleanenergy.com/PDF/FIT_
Tariff_11.01.12.pdf; Long Island from Long Island Power Authority,
“LIPA Board of Trustees Approve First Feed-In Tariff Program in
New York State,” press release (Uniondale, NY: 28 June 2012).
111 Japan from Yamashita and Furuya, op. cit. note 102, and from
WWEA, op. cit. note 102, p. 26; Saudi Arabia from “First Saudi
Arabia Utility Scale Clean Energy Plant to be Built in Mecca,”
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 25 September 2012.
112 The wind park is located north of the German island of Borkum,
per “City Utility Push Germany’s Switch to Renewables,”
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 4 October 2010; “Big Energy
Battle: An Unlikely Effort to Buy Berlin’s Grid,” Spiegel Online, 5
March 2013, at www.spiegel.de.
113 Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), “Re- municipalising
municipal services in Europe” (Greenwich, U.K.: May
2012), at www.epsu.org/IMG/pdf/Redraft_DH_
remunicipalization.pdf; “Berlin to Buy Back Grid and Go 100
Percent,” renewablesinternational.net, 7 December 2012.
114 Yamashita and Furuya, op. cit. note 102; WWEA, op. cit. note 102,
p. 26.
115 Valencia Energy Agency, “Ayudas en materia de Energías
Renovables y Biocarburantes,” June 2012, at www.aven.es.
116 Environmental Leaders, “Biggest PACE Green Building Program
Launches in California,” 20 September 2012, at www.environmentalleader.com.
117 Rajkot from “Rajkot Municipal Corporation plans 50-kW Solar
Power System,” Times of India, 29 April 2012; Surat from Energy
Alternatives India, “Surat Municipal Corporation to inaugurate
rooftop solar plant at the Science Centre,” 8 January 2013, at
www.eai.in/360/news/pages/8248; Agartala from “Agartala to be
Northeast India’s first solar city,“ Zee News, 24 March 2013, at
http://zeenews.india.com.
118 Seoul from Ecoseed, “Seoul to Build Solar Facilities in 1000
school,” 18 June 2012, at www.ecoseed.org; Wellington from
“City council plans for its offices,” Dominion Post, 18 December
2012; Dhaka from “Sun to power some streetlights in Bangladesh
capital,” Reuters, 7 June 2012; Washington, D.C. from U.S.
Department of Energy, “Washington D.C. City Government 100%
Wind Powered,” 30 September 2012, at http://apps1.eere.energy.
gov/states/state_news_detail.cfm/news_id=18675/state=DC.
119 Calgary from IRENA, “Renewable Energy Policy in Cities: Selected
Case Studies - Malmö, Sweden” (Abu Dhabi: January 2013),
p. 7; Houston from "Texas, Incentives/Policies for Renewables
and Efficiency, City of Houston - Green Power Purchasing", 17
December 2012, at http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.
cfm?Incentive_Code=TX22R.
120 Inhabitat, “The SunCarrier Omega Building Is India’s First
Net-Zero Energy Commercial Building,” 1 January 2012, at http://
inhabitat.com.
121 Inhabitat, “Solar-Powered ZCB Is the First Zero Carbon Building in
Hong Kong,” 14 January 2013, at http://inhabitat.com.
122 Seattle from Seattle Government, Department of Building and
Planning, Permits, “Priority Green, Living Building Pilot,” at www.
seattle.gov/dpd/Permits/GreenPermitting/LivingBuildingPilot/
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