Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Some of the world’s leading scientists have set out a roadmap for achieving sustainable energy, making recommendations in the areas of carbon capture and storage, nuclear energy and biofuels, and emphasising the role of scientists in finding solutions. ‘Science provides the basis for a rational discourse about trade-offs and risks, for selecting research and development
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
GEO 2007-2009 WORK PLAN – Toward Convergence Disaster-induced losses can be reduced through observations relating to hazards such as: wildland fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, subsidence, landslides, avalanches, ice, floods, extreme weather, and pollution events. GEOSS implementation will bring a more timely dissemination of information through better coordinated systems for monitoring, predicting, risk assessment, early
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
icWALES – Investors and foreign farmers buy up Welsh land as prices rise 21%. Rural land prices have reached record heights. The latest rural land market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that they continued to climb during the first half of the year to reach the highest levels in the survey’s
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
SOFIA ECHO – Siemens IT Solutions and Services EOOD, HP Bulgaria EOOD, as well as three Bulgarian consortia – Centre for e-Government, Storma and InfoProgress were the five applicants to take part in a tender, organised by the ministry, to build and maintain the IT infrastructure of the territorial e-government centres in the capital Sofia,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Today GE announced that it will invest more than $1 billion on cleaner technology research and development (R&D) for 2007, drawing closer to its pledge to invest $1.5 billion annually on ecomagination R&D by 2010. One of four GE ecomagination commitments originally made in 2005, R&D investment has reached a total of more than $2.5
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
The National Petroleum Construction Co. (NPCC), the largest local engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has chosen Intergraph as its corporate-wide preferred engineering and design software provider for all onshore and offshore oil and gas design and construction projects. Read More
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Water has historically played a strong role in the economic and cultural development of many great civilizations. More than ever before this continues to be the case in the twenty-first century as we witness the critical nature of water resources in developed and developing nations alike. What is unique about water in this time, however,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK – When a resource is as basic as clean water, it can be easy to take for granted. Flowing in and out of our homes and businesses through underground pipes, clean water for sanitation keeps our communities livable, our lifestyles possible, and our industries viable. But while steady access to clean water
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
PEOPLE’S DAILY – China and Norway have launched a three-year water management project in the Huangshui River basin, a main tributary to the upper Yellow River, with a total investment of nearly 26 million yuan. Norway will invest 18.7 million yuan in the project. Xining, in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province, where the Huangshui River is
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Download Report (2002) (20 pages; 2.1MB PDF)
