Friday, August 26th, 2011
The upcoming round of European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform talks will include the Agriculture Commission (KLU) at the Federal Environment Agency. The Commission is calling for a “greening” of EU agricultural policy. Subsidies for the sector an annual 57 billion euros in public funding – are to be made more conditional on environmental
Friday, August 26th, 2011
The WOW project is funded by the GEF (Global Environment Facility), The German Government and several other donors, and it is implemented by UNEP as a joint effort by leading global conservation organizations and partners such as Wetlands International, BirdLife International, the AEWA, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and UNEP-WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre) and
Friday, August 26th, 2011
A consultation on the proposal to abolish the Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC) has been launched today by Defra. The Government announced the intention to abolish IWAC in July last year as part of the Arms Length Bodies Review. IWAC was set up in 2007 by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities (NERC) Act 2006 to advise
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Two major Arctic shipping routes have opened as summer sea ice melts, European satellites have found. Data recorded by the European Space Agency’s (Esa) Envisat shows both Canada’s Northwest Passage and Russia’s Northern Sea Route open simultaneously. This summer’s melt could break the 2007 record for the smallest area of sea ice since the satellite era began
Friday, August 26th, 2011
In Kenya, a Chinese-manufactured Android phone has taken the mobile market by storm. Starting in September, frugal Germans will be able to buy a similar discount Android from the same company — for a hundred euros. Read More
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Obayashi Corporation announced that it has signed an agreement on the joint development of a BIM cloud-computing platform with NEC Corporation and GRAPHISOFT. The goal of the agreement is to provide technology leadership for Obayashi through integrated building information modeling workflows and company-wide BIM-based information sharing.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
You are invited to participate in a first of a kind event, an in-world mixture of conference, workshop and collaboration, to discuss, design, build, operate and evaluate various virtual teaching and learning spaces for the university environment of the twenty first century.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Lessons learned from a study of large transboundary watersheds indicates integrated water resources management is most effective when focused on addressing big- picture issues, according to a report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development produced in partnership with the UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment. The report released at World Water Week in Stockholm reviews
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
The failure of the Progress M-12M cargo ship launch on Wednesday may raise questions about the future of the Russian space program, as the Soyuz carrier is currently the only rocket used to supply the ISS. The recovery process and search for the crashed cargo has been hampered at the moment by severe bad weather in
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Wind farms in China and small-scale solar panels on rooftops in Europe were largely responsible for last year’s 32% rise in green energy investments worldwide, according to the latest annual report on renewable energy investment trends issued by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
