Monday, February 7th, 2011
In order to offer Danish builders a certified quality process to ensure that their buildings meet the owners’ operational requirements in terms of functionality and energy consultant firm Grontmij | Carl Bro is now certified according to American Standard for Commissioning. Commissioning, which in Danish is often called ‘concerted commissioning’ is a documented process that
Monday, February 7th, 2011
This publication contains a selection of papers that result of the seminar ‘Management of massive point cloud data: wet and dry’ on Thursday 26 November 2009 at Oracle, De Meern, the Netherlands. This seminar was jointly organized by the subcommissions ‘Marine Geodesy’ and ‘Core Spatial Data’ of the Netherlands Geodetic Commission (part of the Royal
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Some €21.1 billion has been earmarked for urban development between 2007 and 2013, representing 6.1% of the total EU cohesion policy budget. Of this, €3.4 billion is targeted at the rehabilitation of industrial sites and contaminated land areas, €9.8 billion for urban and rural regeneration projects, €7 billion for clean urban transport, and €917 million
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Bulgaria was again granted the right to participate in international carbon trading. This decision was taken at the12th Meeting of the Implementation Committee considering the obligations of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol held in Germany. The reinstatement of this accreditation will make Bulgaria eligible for inclusion in EU trading with quotas and units under
Monday, February 7th, 2011
A new Nordic Centre of Excellence on Climate Change Effects on Marine Ecosystems and Resource Economics will be established, and will be led from the University of Oslo. CEES’s Professor Nils Chr. Stenseth will be the PI and Carl Folke at the Stockholm Resilience Centre as the co-PI. Funding is scheduled to begin in 2011 and will be
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
The Equator Initiative is a partnership that brings together the UN, governments, civil society, businesses, and grassroots organizations to build the capacity and raise the profile of local efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Read More
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
In 2011 Shtokman Development AG intends to widen cooperation with Arkhangelsk oblast and involve leading regional industrial companies in the Shtokman project. Chief Executive Officer of Shtokman Development AG Alexey Zagorovsky and Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast Ilya Mikhalchuk had a working meeting on the 31st of January at the Company’s Moscow office. Read More
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
David Thompson could be the world’s most accomplished geographer having mapped more ground than anyone else. Included in his extensive travels is the first record of a European to pass by the Revelstoke area on September 12, 1811. The Revelstoke Museum and Archives will commemorate this bicentennial with displays and events this summer. Read More
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
First, take the issue of resource efficiency: We all agree that the EU must tackle the challenge of increasing pressure on natural resources head-on. Resource efficiency is a stated aim of Europe2020 and only a week ago President Barroso formally launched the resource efficiency flagship initiative. I don’t have time to go into detail now, but
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
The Amazon River has fallen to its lowest level in decades, leaving scores of towns and cities along its length, and those of its tributaries, stranded as water levels either fall too low for safe navigation by boat, or evaporate entirely. Rivers such as the Rio Negro, which flows into the Amazon, have dried up
