Friday, September 9th, 2011
Government officials are willing to negotiate concessions to planning reforms in order to placate opponents of the introduction of a planned presumption in favour of sustainable development, Building understands. The admission comes as the battle between the government and an increasingly organised group of anti-development and conservation campaigners over the proposed National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
Friday, September 9th, 2011
Electoral monitoring association “Golos” together with gazeta.ru had launched Kartanarusheniy.ru, a crowdsourced mechanism for collecting user data on electoral violations. Ushahidi-like map (although developed on a different software) allows users to report agitation violations, administrative and police pressure, bribery, misuse of power, violation of candidates’ rights. Read MOre
Friday, September 9th, 2011
Eskom has been given a R980 840 000 loan by the Agence Franaise de Dveloppement (AFD) towards its renewable energy projects, the electricity parastatal said. “The facility, which is for 20 years, will go towards financing Eskom’s 100 megawatt Sere Wind Project in the Western Cape ,” it said in a statement. The loan forms part of Eskom’s seven-year
Friday, September 9th, 2011
The embattled Icelandic property market appears to be making a comeback after it nearly ground to a complete halt during the banking crisis. In the Reykjavik area there were 428 confirmed property purchase contracts signed and validated in August with a value of ISK 12.5 billion (EUR 76.7 million) and an average cost per transaction of
Friday, September 9th, 2011
Green energy used to be Germany’s great hope for its economic future. But now the German solar industry is in trouble amid huge losses, job cuts and the threat of bankruptcies. Chinese firms are gaining an ever greater share of the German market — and are benefiting from German subsidies for renewable energy. Read More
Friday, September 9th, 2011
As part of its mission to help customers innovate the way they do business, SAP AG will acquire Right Hemisphere, a leading provider of visual enterprise solutions based in San Ramon, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. The 3-D model-based visualization and communications technologies from Right Hemisphere will enhance SAP software and enable visual navigation and interrogation of an entire product
Friday, September 9th, 2011
This monograph contains a selection of scientific papers presented on the conference on Land Quality and Land Use Information in the European Union, hold in Keszthely, Hungary. It covers topics related to various aspects of land quality including: concepts of assessment; evaluation of biomass productivity; bio-indicators of land quality; quality assessment of degraded land; land
Friday, September 9th, 2011
The city of Beijing and GIZ officially launched a new Sino-German project on sustainable urban transport. The project “Transport Demand Management in Beijing – Emission Reduction in Urban Transport” is funded through the International Climate Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).The aim of this project is
Friday, September 9th, 2011
MapInfo Manager is part of the MapInfo suite for Enterprise Location Intelligence. It is ideal for establishing a Single Point of Truth of spatial assets for spatial data custodians and GIS managers, through fast, efficient, intuitive metadata management. This is the third release of the product by Pitney Bowes Business Insight in a year, as
Friday, September 9th, 2011
The Verified Carbon Standard is pleased to announce that the following module revision has been approved for use under the VCS Program: VMD0007 – REDD Methodological Module: Estimation of baseline carbon stock changes and greenhouse gas emissions from unplanned deforestation (BL-UP)The module, revised by The Field Museum, can be used to estimate baseline deforestation rates for
