Whatever concerns current news goes here. This will not be solely news in sustainable development. Posts of interest in economics and politics go here as well.
I started last month a new job as Energy Transition and Sustainability Advisor for the Healthcare Sector. Here is some information about what that entails.
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On January 30th 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as the Mahatma or Bapu (Father), was assassinated. 60 years later, India is paying homage to the father of the country and some of his ashes are scattered in the Arabian sea near Mumbaï. I never speak about news events, but as I studied enough the
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Fifty years ago, on October fourth, 1957, the first human-made satellite begun its orbiting around our planet. This was a major event as it launched a race to space between the two super powers of this era, the United States and the USSR. (now the Russian Federation). The image of the day by the NASA
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I have been reading and enjoying for some months the Business of green blog from the IHT. The RSS feeds of this blog are displayed on my sidebar. Today I was reading their latest article “Do low energy light bulbs work?” and I felt like giving my humble opinion on that matter and posted a
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Last week, the United States announced that they are willing to mitigate global warming by setting voluntary goals. Meanwhile many countries – including the European Union – met within the United Nations to tackle the future of the Kyoto Protocol. So is it good or bad news ? As we will see in this article,
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Le secteur des transports est une des principales sources d’émission de dioxyde de carbone, il est donc important de trouver des solutions dans ce domaine. Alors quand Citroën présente lors du salon de l’automobile de Francfort un prototype qui émet moins de 80 g de CO2 par km, la nouvelle ne peut qu’être saluée. La
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The European Union will give a minimum of 50 million € (and up to 300 million) between 2008 and 2010 to developing countries. This will be done in order to enable these countries to cope with climate change related events and to reduce both local poverty and greenhouse gases emissions. Actions will notably include the
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The Blacksmith Institute, an environmental NGO from the United States, released this month a report on the 30 most polluted places on Earth. Of the top ten, two are located in China, two in India, two in Russia and another two in the former Soviet bloc. Among the locations is Chernobyl in Ukraine. As we
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Last week, the countries of the Asia Pacific region (APEC) committed themselves to curb their greenhouse gases emissions by working on energy efficiency, renewables and the management of forests. A good news as this group of countries holds 41 percent of the population and comprises the United States and China, the world top greenhouse gases
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The car maker Toyota and the French company EDF will soon propose a network of plug-in points and sockets to fill up hybrid cars with electricity. French electricity is mostly carbon dioxide free (78 percent of nuclear and 10 percent hydro), so electric cars would prove to be a good thing to mitigate climate change.
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