The occasion was "Cool Biz", a summer-long campaign encouraging office workers to dress down and while thermostats are turned up. The aim is to reduce energy use and boost Japan’s lagging efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Officials say that despite such steps, Japan, host of the 1997 meeting that led to the Kyoto Protocol, [...]
The agreement came at a meeting of South Asian officials in the Bangladeshi capital, ahead of a Nov. 12-13 summit of regional leaders which aims to push a long-standing goal of economic integration to achieve higher growth. The region has been victim of two of the world’s worst disasters in the past year — the [...]
Russia and Norway, the world?s number two and three oil exporters respectively behind Saudi Arabia, are both looking north for new finds. By some US estimates, the Arctic could hold a quarter of the world’s undiscovered petroleum reserves. "I am convinced that there will be a closer cooperation between the two countries in the energy [...]
The requirement will lead t? a 20-fold increase in biofuels use, which currently stands at about 0.25 percent of all road fuel sales, and the announcement received a largely positive response from the farming and renewable energy sectors. "I’m very positive (about the announcement). It is unusually unambigous and that is a great step forward," [...]
Prime Minister Tony Blair has sought to champion tackling climate change, particularly under Britain’s presidency this year of the Group of Eight economic powers. At a July summit, G8 nations agreed on measures to tackle global warming but set no targets, mainly due to resistance from the United States which rejects the Kyoto Protocol on [...]
In the 1980′s, the Fish & Wildlife Service began relocating any otters found south of Point Conception, on the southern California coast, to San Nicolas Island. The goal of the program was to establish a population of several hundred otters at San Nicolas Island that would be protected from oil spills, fishing boats and other [...]
The action now shifts to the House of Representatives, where a vote on its version of the budget reconciliation bill could occur as early as tomorrow. The current text of the bill would open the Arctic Refuge, as well as coastal areas, to drilling and sell off public lands to the highest bidder. If enough [...]
The seminar is aimed to establish and develop future cooperation between academic representatives and the students in the field of environmental and sustainable development. To apply to participate on the Seminar it is necessary to fill in and send back enclosed registration form until November 25th via E-mail:suuns@neobee.net or fax: +381 21 6350 821. Fill [...]
The maize, known by its code number 1507, is jointly made by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont Co., and Dow AgroSciences unit Mycogen Seeds. The maize, modified to resist certain insects and herbicides, will be used in animal feed. The authorisation is valid across the EU-25 for 10 years. "Robust post-marketing rules will [...]
Bremen-based AN has 1,300 wind power systems with a combined capacity of around 1,300 megawatts and employs some 200 people, Siemens said in a statement. AN’s capacity represents around 8 percent of the total in Germany, the world’s biggest wind market by installed capacity. The company is a close partner of Bonus Energy, the Danish [...]
